I was also on SmartOS for a long time; however with what happened to most of us old timers when sun went down in the back of my mind, and with the way things ar

I was also on SmartOS for a long time; however with what happened to most of us old timers when sun went down in the back of my mind, and with the way things are looking in illumos land -- we decided finally it's not a good bet for us to be dependent on a single company for our OS anymore. While I'm sure Samsung will keep Joyent/SmartOS kicking for now, I'm uneasy being dependent on them. We've since started a migration over to FreeBSD for our infra hosts which do all the same things (mostly running linux and bsd guests, zfs tricks and so on) and the experience has been largely positive. No numbers to back it up, but I've observed performance is a bit better and having more options than ipfilter in the base system is very welcome. YMMV of course, but you may want to consider an extra basket for all those eggs!