I have narrowed my choice for a *nix Production platform for Perl web apps to OpenBSD and FreeBSD.

Please help me choose by sharing your thoughts and experiences on OpenBSD and/or FreeBSD as a production platform for Perl (especially mod_perl) web applications, please!

I'm especially interested in your thoughts and experiences regarding security, ability to scale up to handling high volumes of web traffic, and ease/dificulty of system admin. of OpenBSD and FreeBSD Production servers.

And how do you like doing development on these platforms (if you do Perl development on them)?

I (and I'm sure many other Monks) would very much like to know how these two operating systems compare in these vital regards for Production servers.

Thank you very, very much my fellow Monks!

In reply to OpenBSD or FreeBSD for a Perl web app Production platform? by Anonymous Monk

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