a quick question

[Andrew Falanga <afalanga@syracusenetworks.com>]

Hi,

I've posted a few questions on the misc list, but this question I
believe is more suited to this list.  In response to one of my
questions, one person (I forget names now) mentioned that for smaller
internet web site hosting openbsd was great.  If I was looking at a
larger platform, then go with NetBSD.  What I'm wondering is, what is
meant by "smaller?"  What is too much for OpenBSD, that I should
consider NetBSD?

The reason for this question is, I'm investigating alternative OSes to
NT for www site hosting.  I have had previous experience with BSDi, the
commercial product, and really liked it.  It ran very cleanly.  In fact,
it routinely (not really, more like it always), out-performed the NT box
that was the dial-in server.  The NT box was a dual P166 (when the 166
chip was the fastest) w/80+ m of RAM.  The Unix box, a humble P60 with
32m of RAM.

Back to what I'm asking, I'm really not looking at hosting extremely
high volume hits.  It's not like I'm going to be mirroring tucows.com or
something.  The company I work for is attempting to diversify in to web
site hosting, no dial-in lines.  I really would like to security of
OpenBSD, and want to know if it has what it takes.

Andrew Falanga