[breadiu]

Netcraft has posted an article detailing the proliferation of Linux and FreeBSD as the hosting platform of choice for many mac enthusiast websites.

While I completely understand why a site would be hosted on Linux for BSD over Mac OS X, it does seem like the enthusiast websites would try to go with OS X.

[tooki]

For simple web serving, Linux and FreeBSD on Intel are cheaper to buy. But more importantly, most of these sites have their servers co-located, so the actual owners of the sites don't have easy access to the hardware. Most co-location facilities tend to be more familiar with Linux and FreeBSD than with Mac OS X Server.

tooki

[besson3c]

I love my Mac, but FreeBSD/Linux is the better server.

I like having control over when I update packages, I don't want to have to rely on Apple to push an update and "certify" a package (and then be forced to restart the server after this patch/update has been applied).

I want to be able to work independently of the GUI (remotely). While you can do this in OS X Server, sometimes the GUI gets in the way and overrides settings you have entered in the command line (the dorky MySQL Admin thing in OS X 10.3 Server is a good example of this).

Finally, I want real package management

[MacMan4000]

I could have sworn this thread said "free LSD"... oh well, back to your conversation. Sorry for the off topic note...