FreeBSD Web Development

FreeBSD is one of the best, if not the very best, operating system for hosting web sites and developing web sites and developing web applications.  It is stable, fast, secure, easy to install and 100% free to acquire.  That’s pretty hard to beat in a operating system for web hosting and web development.

Ventura IT uses FreeBSD and has used FreeBSD for over 10 years for all of its servers, web hosting, and web development.  After thoroughly testing all of the available LAMP (Linux, Apache, Mysql, Perl/PHP) platforms we are sure that FreeBSD is the best as a web server.

How stable is FreeBSD?  It’s well known that FreeBSD is has the longest running without failure servers in the world.  This was verified by Netcraft until they stopped monitoring FreeBSD, Linux, and Unix servers.

FreeBSD’s code base has undergone over thirty years of continuous development, improvement, and optimization. It is developed and maintained by a large team of individuals. FreeBSD provides advanced networking, impressive security features, and world class performance and is used by some of the world’s busiest web sites and most pervasive embedded networking and storage devices.

FreeBSD provides several security-related features including access control lists (ACLs), security event auditing, extended file system attributes, fine-grained capabilities and mandatory access controls (MAC). These security enhancements were developed by the TrustedBSD project. The project was founded by Robert Watson with the goal of implementing concepts from the Common Criteria for Information Technology Security Evaluation and the Orange Book. This project is ongoing and many of its extensions have been integrated into FreeBSD.

The project has also ported the NSA’s FLASK/TE implementation from SELinux to FreeBSD. Other work includes the development of OpenBSM, an open source implementation of Sun’s Basic Security Module (BSM) API and audit log file format, which supports an extensive security audit system. This was shipped as part of FreeBSD 6.2. Other infrastructure work in FreeBSD performed as part of the TrustedBSD Project has included SYN cookies, GEOM and OpenPAM.

While most components of the TrustedBSD project are eventually folded into the main sources for FreeBSD, many features, once fully matured, find their way into other operating systems. For example, OpenPAM and UFS2 have been adopted by NetBSD. Moreover, the TrustedBSD MAC Framework has been adopted by Apple for Mac OS X.

Much of this work was sponsored by DARPA.

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