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Originally Posted by EQWebHost
We use CentOs on all of our servers. We choose this because of its connection with cPanel. It just seems to perform better with cPanel then others. If i'm not mistaken, it is the only OS that can run cPanel?
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Nope
http://www.cpanel.net/products/cPane...quirements.htm
Quite a few OS's can run it
I think the main reason cPanel & CentOS are so commonly used together, is that 'back in the day', Red Hat (7.3 & 9) & cpanel were all the rage and that's what big companies like Rackshack (then Ev1Servers, Now Ev1servers-ThePlanet) were offering to the masses. When Red Hat split the line into Red Hat Enterprise (big $$$ each year for the support subscription and what not) and Fedora ('consumer goodness'), CentOS came along and basically take "Red Hat Enterprise v'X'" and rebrand it as "Cent OS", and make it available to free to everyone. As such, rather than paying for Red Hat Enterprise, everyone has moved from RedHat onto Cent OS.
So that's Red Hat -> Red Hat Enterprise -> Cent OS. Which sorta explains the common cPanel link