Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 01:22:50 +0200 From: Alex de Kruijff <freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl> To: bsdfsse <bsdfsse@optonline.net> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Is it safe to run a webserver on 5.x ? Message-ID: <20040927232250.GC1494@alex.lan> In-Reply-To: <4157AB8B.2020007@optonline.net> References: <4157AB8B.2020007@optonline.net>
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On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 01:56:27AM -0400, bsdfsse wrote: > > I started running FreeBSD because a friend of mine is going to run a > website on 4.10-STABLE. Someone had told him that 4.x was "safer" to > run than 5.x. > > Recently I had a hardware problems on one of my machines that is forcing > me to run 5.x on it, instead of 4.x. Should I lobby my friend to also > run 5.x ? His webserver will be behind a hardware firewall. I would let him leaf his server on 4.x and wait untill 5.3 or untill there are no more 4 releases plus fixes. But would go with 5.2.1 if I had to do a fresh install. And would do a fresh install if I switched to 5 because of UFS2. > Its my understanding servers on the web often run the "security > release", which is RELEASE+fixes. That way, no new features in STABLE > introduce more exploitable bugs. Other people run web servers on STABLE > (they must feel confident that nothing new is going to break). This is true for every release stable or not. I run 5.2 plus fixes. -- Alex Articles based on solutions that I use: http://www.kruijff.org/alex/FreeBSD/
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