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Interesting that they are using kernel version 2.6.32-35. Is it common to run such an older kernel version on servers?


2.6.32 is one of the longterm maintenance releases; it's still supported and new security patches are backported. If you rent a freshly imaged RHEL/CentOS server today, that's the kernel you'll be getting. Pretty much all the software packages those distro's come with are older, longterm/stable releases, never bleeding edge.




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