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> FreeBSD itself has improved tremendously over the last few releases in terms of scalability True. FreeBSD (or its variants) has always been a better performe
by webmobdev 5y ago
> FreeBSD itself has improved tremendously over the last few releases in terms of scalability
True. FreeBSD (or its variants) has always been a better performer than Linux in the server segment. Before Linux became popular (mostly due to better hardware support), xBSD servers were famous for their low maintenance and high uptime (and still are). This archived page of NetCraft statistics ( https://web.archive.org/web/20040615000000*/http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/top.avg.html https://web.archive.org/web/20040615000000*/http://uptime.ne... ) provides an interesting glimpse into internet history of how 10+ years back, the top 50 server with the highest uptimes were often xBSD servers, and how Windows and Linux servers slowly replaced xBSD.
(Here's an old HN discussion about a FreeBSD server that ran for 18 years - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10951220 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10951220 ).