> but I've literally never installed a FreeBSD system that didn't end up with something broken by the time everything needed for a fully functioning web hostin

> but I've literally never installed a FreeBSD system that didn't end up with something broken by the time everything needed for a fully functioning web hosting system was installed. It's like there's Stockholm syndrome happening, or something. You must be doing something wrong if every FreeBSD install you do ends up broken. Also before updating software in FreeBSD it's nice to take a ZFS snapshot before hand so you can roll back if something goes wrong, i've never had to rollback personally but it's still a nice precaution. > - No reasonable mechanism for offering third party package repositories. What do you mean? you can change pkg repos's by changing the configuration file. [1] [1]: https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pkg.conf&sektion=5&manpath=FreeBSD+10.2-RELEASE https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pkg.conf&sektion=5...