in a previous life, I had 5 Community version pfSense firewalls running off of Soekris net5505 boxes. They were in areas with a lot of power issues (UPS's help

in a previous life, I had 5 Community version pfSense firewalls running off of Soekris net5505 boxes. They were in areas with a lot of power issues (UPS's helped as much as they can), so they were beaten up pretty bad for 6+ years before I left. Only issues I had were once I got 50mb up/down with 60+ users, it started to bog down. I virtualized that one in VMWare and that took care of that. I did have one power supply burn out and one CF card die, but those net5501 were in use for 8 years straight before I repurposed them. For $250 (in 2005 maybe?) for hardware, I can't complain at all. *Edit The best part was exporting the backup configs, then tossing them onto a new machine (another Soekris, VM, or PC hardware) and having a new firewall back up in minutes if you had the ethernet ports figured out beforehand.