Maintaing security on untouchible remote server for years.

["Brad Brad" <braddeicide_(_at_)_hotmail_(_dot_)_com>]

Hi, my small online buisness relies entirly on a very remotly hosted server, 
if anything happened to that server, it'd be a good while before we could 
recover.

I've been looking around for the best OS based on security, updates, and if 
needed, remote upgradeing ability.  I was quite impressed by OpenBSD's 
security and achievments, however i also read that the release cycle is too 
quick and upgrades can be "destructive"(?)  Currently I think Debian is 
winning with their apt-get seeming to handle distribution upgrades quite 
smoothly(long term), however i would miss BSD's security levels.

Has anyone else handled a remote server over a long period without 
physically touching it?  How well does OpenBSD really upgrade?

So far we've been running redhat 6.2 but it "expired" and i don't want to 
enter redhats upgrade cycle, or overpriced advanced server. The server 
publicly serves DNS, Email, FTP, HTTP

Thanks for any suggestions :)
Brad.


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