From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 27 23:23:00 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAA1116A4CE for ; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 23:23:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp14.wxs.nl (smtp14.wxs.nl [195.121.6.28]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C09843D46 for ; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 23:22:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl) Received: from kruij557.speed.planet.nl (ipd50a97ba.speed.planet.nl [213.10.151.186]) by smtp14.wxs.nl (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.25 (built Mar 3 2004)) with ESMTP id <0I4Q009XU3M8TM@smtp14.wxs.nl> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 28 Sep 2004 01:22:56 +0200 (CEST) Received: from alex.lan (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kruij557.speed.planet.nl (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i8RNMoMH004415; Tue, 28 Sep 2004 01:22:50 +0200 Received: (from akruijff@localhost) by alex.lan (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i8RNMosE004414; Tue, 28 Sep 2004 01:22:50 +0200 Content-return: prohibited Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 01:22:50 +0200 From: Alex de Kruijff In-reply-to: <4157AB8B.2020007@optonline.net> To: bsdfsse Message-id: <20040927232250.GC1494@alex.lan> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i References: <4157AB8B.2020007@optonline.net> X-Authentication-warning: alex.lan: akruijff set sender to freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl using -f cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Is it safe to run a webserver on 5.x ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 23:23:00 -0000 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/