Because I was running dozens of web servers in 2006 and was a very active part of the ops community, and everybody thought running a website on NetBSD was bonke

Because I was running dozens of web servers in 2006 and was a very active part of the ops community, and everybody thought running a website on NetBSD was bonkers. Linux was already well-proven technology by this point, with a variety of free and commercial offerings. We mostly used Debian, although if people really enjoyed handing over money we'd put RHEL on for them.