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Current Release for FreeBSD Dedicated Servers: Stable 6.2 – Jan. 2007

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Wikipedia Reference: FreeBSD dedicated server hosting 

FreeBSD is a solid player among the Linux distros. It has been around since 1993 and grown steadily in popularity. Netcraft reported recently that there are over 2 Million active FreeBSD dedicated servers and sites. Companies using FreeBSD dedicated servers include Yahoo, Hotmail, Apache, Blue Mountain Arts, and cdrom.com. FreeBSD dedicated servers are known for being stable with long uptimes that require infrequent kernel patches.

FreeBSD is based on the 4.4BSD release from Computer Systems Research Group at UC Berkeley. It performs solidly on FreeBSD dedicated servers that are under heavy utilization. It has a reputation for being more secure out of the box than other distros. FreeBSD dedicated servers are also known for having great uptime and requiring less systems administration. It is arguably one of the most important free Unix systems on the market today.

Some of the key features include stateful firewalling, IP proxies, access control lists (ACLs), mandatory access control (MAC) modules, virtual hosting via jails and storage protected cryptographically, which are all important for your FreeBSD dedicated server hosting. It gets high marks for security, although not as secure as OpenBSD, whose main focus is ensuring the code base has no vulnerabilities. A FreeBSD dedicated server will benefit from FreeBSD’s unique method of handling memory management and writing to the buffer cache.

The package management in FreeBSD is well thought out and uses a “port system”, which allows for downloading and compiling in one process. Another plus for FreeBSD dedicated servers is that FreeBSD is documented thoroughly and provides an extensive user community. Those considering FreeBSD dedicated server hosting should have solace in knowing that the FreeBSD Foundation is set up exclusively to support the FreeBSD community worldwide.