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I used to use OpenBSD as a personal mail/web server on a freecycled 486, and decided to go with Linux when I upgraded to newer and faster machines. My rational
by sethg 16y ago
I used to use OpenBSD as a personal mail/web server on a freecycled 486, and decided to go with Linux when I upgraded to newer and faster machines. My rationale was that even though I respect OpenBSD’s security philosophy, if anyone pwns my server, they’re not going to go through a hole in the base system; they’re going to go through a hole in the PHP scripts that run my blog. (Where, oh where, is a featureful blog-server framework that doesn’t depend on PHP?)
For dynamic Web-based applications, what advantages do OpenBSD have over Linux?
- protomyth 16y agoWell, the point of OpenBSD's security is that you can isolate Apache so they can pown Apache but won't get the rest of the server.
- silentbicycle 16y agoI'm not really a web developer, but FreeBSD might be a better fit there. OpenBSD is a great dev platform, though, and an excellent firewall. You could run your blog stuff chrooted / in a process jail, either way.
- sethg 16y agoThe last time I looked at the procedure for running Perl/PHP within a jail, it looked like a sysadmin’s nightmare. Of course, that was a while ago, in the pre-kernel-virtualization era. (There must be a way to run one virtual machine inside another, right?)
- silentbicycle 16y agoI haven't ever tried with PHP, but didn't have much trouble chrooting Perl for a wiki (usemod) I was running a while ago.