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<blockquote data-quote="Vargo" data-source="post: 181730" data-attributes="member: 4436">I'll concur with the BSD comment.For secure, stable, and FAST, BSD is the OS of choice.&nbsp; Back in the heydey, ftp.cdrom.com was run on FreeBSD IIRC, and that server held the record for most amount of data served in a day for quite some time.I was working at Microsoft between the first attempted switchover of Hotmail to NT4 (which failed) and the second switchover to Windows 2000.&nbsp; I asked one guy on the team why the NT4 conversion had failed.&nbsp; He replied, &quot;Well, their software is buggy and just is poorly written.&quot;I responded, &quot;Oh?&nbsp; Then why was it so stable on their Unix boxes?&quot;To which he fumed and walked off. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />As far as equipment/reliability goes - I'm of a mixed mind about this.&nbsp; For a hobby board such as this, most standard commercial equipment will hold up as well as the so-called &quot;server-grade&quot; equipment - but if you get into /. territory, you really do need to go with the &quot;service contract&quot; equipment.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Vargo, post: 181730, member: 4436"] [b]I'll concur with the BSD comment.[/b] For secure, stable, and FAST, BSD is the OS of choice. Back in the heydey, ftp.cdrom.com was run on FreeBSD IIRC, and that server held the record for most amount of data served in a day for quite some time. I was working at Microsoft between the first attempted switchover of Hotmail to NT4 (which failed) and the second switchover to Windows 2000. I asked one guy on the team why the NT4 conversion had failed. He replied, "Well, their software is buggy and just is poorly written." I responded, "Oh? Then why was it so stable on their Unix boxes?" To which he fumed and walked off. :D As far as equipment/reliability goes - I'm of a mixed mind about this. For a hobby board such as this, most standard commercial equipment will hold up as well as the so-called "server-grade" equipment - but if you get into /. territory, you really do need to go with the "service contract" equipment. [/QUOTE]

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