Negative Review of FreeBSD 5.4

[M. Goodell]

After reading this review and seeing the comment at the bottom that reads: 
 
Low-end Web and email servers, desktop users 
 
I felt compelled to respond. 
 
I am personally responsible for three FreeBSD systems. The first being a 
combination Web Server / Mail Server / DNS Server / FTP Server / MySQL Database 
server (11+ gig - rebuilt from the ground up once a week) This is our main web 
server that runs our primary e-commerce site. The Webalizer table shown in this 
post I believe is a testament to the fact: Our FreeBSD 5.3 web server simply 
takes a beating and just keeps on running with zero hiccups - period. 
 
Summary by MonthMonthDaily AvgMonthly 
TotalsHitsFilesPagesVisitsSitesKBytesVisitsPagesFilesHitsJun 
2005471583863475381274871019740041657098005502247613062May 
20055198640956914614022096750990034347628353412696371611584Apr 
20055195242175998714312029249523324293829961712652501558579Mar 
200562876506601230516972515164497005263338145915704661949175Feb 
200559685473751156515622184154251194376132383313265091671185Jan 
200559309464821159715472336859381794797135950814409571838596Dec 
200454263422881086014732165554502784568533666213109291682178Nov 
20044460134908887012711728344896543813426612810472651338054Oct 
20044388534678879012601797844660963906727250910750391360438Sep 
20044728736904921214111860646061084235027638311071321418618Aug 
20044722936825935814791920146368814587029011011415801464129Jul 
200446883358721020714221817749911654411031643011120551453382Totals5847851950256535041781416906617958980
 
The second and third boxes are mail servers that handle E-mail for a national 
company that pitched their RedHat Linux solution in favor of FreeBSD 5.3 - 5.4. 
These mail servers handle literally thousands of e-mails everyday - again, 
without any problems. (Postfix / Amavis / ClamAV) awesome combo!
 
Now, the fact is that all dogs have fleas - but I think for someone to state 
FreeBSD 5.3 / 5.4 are not ready for prime time is not accurate, at least not in 
my case. It does not get any more Prime Time than what we have done with 
FreeBSD. For us, the proof is in the pudding. I am glad to have FreeBSD out 
there working so well for us and I am proud to slap my Powered By FreeBSD 
stickers on all three systems.
 
Just a testimonial from the front line  real world . . .
 
M. Goodell


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Fleas Negative Review of FreeBSD 5.4

[M. Goodell]

Mr Dollansky, I would hope you are not trolling in here to advocate the use of 
Linux as some magic bullet and answer to all of our server problems. What I 
meant by the statement all dogs have fleas is that there is no magic bullet - 
no, not even Linux. 
 
Would you perhaps like to point out for me a flavor of Linux that is free of 
*little problems*? I'd love to see it and use it. I don't think you or anyone 
else can do that. The fact is that trading one OS for another is trading one 
set of *little problems* for another set of *little problems*
 
My company must go with what I have seen for myself and that is rock solid 
stability and performance of FreeBSD.
 
- M Goodell



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