Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 01:49:54 -0600 From: Clay Daniels <clay.daniels.jr@gmail.com> To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: DistroWatch now runs web server on FreeBSD Message-ID: <CAGLDxTUS1VC59Q6vS-_QVYhN007e4O%2Bh9vLgVTiTKW0A%2BwGBDg@mail.gmail.com>
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DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 849, 20 January 2020 https://distrowatch.com/ *Server upgrade* Last weekend we migrated from our old web server to a new machine. The old box was having some hardware trouble and we felt it was time to switch over to newer (and hopefully more reliable) equipment for the long-term health of this website. The migration went smoothly for the most part and we were happy to complete the transition from the old server to the new one without experiencing any downtime. Since we were getting a fresh start with the equipment and were not in a terrible rush to get it set up, it opened the opportunity to talk about which technologies we wanted to run on the new server. We are, after all, not immune to the siren song of distro-hopping and like to try out different approaches from time to time. In the end, we decided to run FreeBSD <https://distrowatch.com/freebsd> on the new server, which offers some nice features such as filesystem snapshots, boot environments, the PF firewall, and long-term support. Previously we had been running Debian <https://distrowatch.com/debian> for the past twelve years and had a very good experience with the distribution. You can see more of the history of the operating systems running on the DistroWatch web server on our FAQ page <https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=faq#mydistro>. (I'm a DistroWatch fan)
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