IFDNRG host on FreeBSD

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We like UNIX and host shared and dedicated servers on FreeBSD.

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FreeBSD is extremely robust and powers some of the largest Internet sites in the world, including Yahoo! and the Internet Movie Database. It has also been used for other high-end applications, such as special effects rendering in movies. The special effects in The Matrix were rendered on a cluster of FreeBSD systems.

FreeBSD stability

FreeBSD is the operating system listed most often in Netcraft's list of the 50 web servers with the longest uptime.

FreeBSD, A complete OS

FreeBSD is developed as a complete operating system. The kernel, device drivers and all of the userland utilities, such as the shell, are held in the same source code revision tracking tree (CVS). Whereas with Linux the kernel, userland utilities and applications are developed separately, then packaged together in various ways by other groups as Linux distributions.

FreeBSD History

FreeBSD's distinguished roots derive from the BSD software releases from the Computer Systems Research Group at the University of California, Berkeley. Over ten years of work have been put into enhancing BSD, adding industry-leading SMP, multithreading, and network performance, as well as new management tools, file systems, and security features. As a result, FreeBSD may be found across the Internet, in the operating system of core router products, running root name servers and hosting major web sites.

FreeBSD, a discerning choice.

FreeBSD is used as a platform for devices and products from many of the world's largest IT companies, including Apple, Cisco, Juniper and NetApp.

FreeBSD is also used to power some of the biggest sites on the Internet, including Yahoo!,Yandex,Apache,Rambler,Sina,Pair Networks,Sony Japan,Netcraft,Weathernews,TELEHOUSE America

FreeBSD or Linux: it's your choice

Open source, of course, is all about choice, and we're happy to provide an install of the your preferred distro for dedicated servers.

Our recommendation is to host on FreeBSD with an open source stack of associated software such as Apache, PHP and MySQL.

IFDNRG and Open Source Tools

IFDNRG are very much into using open source hosting tools, but after several iterations and years of experience have opted for FreeBSD hosting instead of the more obvious choice of Linux.

We have tried and tested various linux distributions (such as Redhat, Slackware, Debian, Ubuntu etc, but have finally, and happily, settled on FreeBSD.

Why we prefer FreeBSD

  • FreeBSD is developed as a complete operating system, whereas with linux kernel, userland and applications are developed seperately. We believe this leads to a more stable system.
  • We're very much interested in base stability than in support for the latest feature X which we very likely don't need or want. We don't need wifi or bluetooth on servers.
  • It is the result of almost 3 decades continual development, one of the most unix-like unixes out there.
  • The freeBSD package system (BSD ports) works well, is simple to automate and there's no rpm dependency hell.

FreeBSD Foundation

IFDNRG are proud to support the FreeBSD community as donors to the FreeBSD Foundation