For virtual servers, I've found Ruby API calls to be excruciatingly slow on FreeBSD VM compared to Linux. I'm using TransIP as a VPS provider and although expen

For virtual servers, I've found Ruby API calls to be excruciatingly slow on FreeBSD VM compared to Linux. I'm using TransIP as a VPS provider and although expensive I'm happy with them. I used FreeBSD out of curiosity. So far, I'm using my VPS to run services (mail, vpn, etc.) and found FreeBSD to be stable, easy to admin and fairly secure. Another interesting thing are the tools. BSD tools seem to be easier to configure: e.g. PF syntax > IPTABLES syntax, or OpenSMTPD (OpenBSD's smtp server) vs virtually-everything-else. For reference see discussions here: Ruby ML Discussion: https://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/5673725 https://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/5673725 See the gist for results: https://gist.github.com/atmosx/14efea27eb2c1e38af09 https://gist.github.com/atmosx/14efea27eb2c1e38af09