We ran FreeBSD on a few racks full of highly used web servers (and some auxiliary servers) from 2000-2012.
I liked it because it was rock solid and configurations were simple and straightforward. It also made some things, like read-only bind mounts, easier than Linux did at the time.
However we finally gave up because the update/upgrade process was a big pain compared to Debian so it was harder to schedule updates, and because it was hard to find people who were familiar enough with it to take anything off my plate.
Now only using it for firewalls. Everything else on Debian linux which is slowly getting more annoyingly opaque with stuff like systemd that infuses magic and binary-format logs and stuff into things that used to be easy to debug. Who knows, maybe we'll be begging it to come back into our arms again one day.
I liked it because it was rock solid and configurations were simple and straightforward. It also made some things, like read-only bind mounts, easier than Linux did at the time.
However we finally gave up because the update/upgrade process was a big pain compared to Debian so it was harder to schedule updates, and because it was hard to find people who were familiar enough with it to take anything off my plate.
Now only using it for firewalls. Everything else on Debian linux which is slowly getting more annoyingly opaque with stuff like systemd that infuses magic and binary-format logs and stuff into things that used to be easy to debug. Who knows, maybe we'll be begging it to come back into our arms again one day.