Why Is Linux Preferred over FreeBSD (Or *BSD/Solaris/Illumos) for Web Serving?
> Netflix chose FreeBSD for its balance of stability and features (as did Netcraft once upon a time), but it is becoming an increasingly less common frontend operating system on the web as a whole. Only 60,200 (0.67%) web-facing computers are running FreeBSD today.
Source: https://news.netcraft.com/archives/2019/08/15/august-2019-web-server-survey.html
In fact, a bigger percentage of Tor relays run FreeBSD than web servers.
While many of the open-source server-side web components support FreeBSD (not all, thanks Docker), almost everyone running an open-source web stack (as opposed to Microsoft/.NET) runs Linux instead of BSD/Illumos. Why? Bigger community? Docker? Better cloud support?
I'm only talking about the web, not every single app running on OSS (FreeBSD is prevalent on firewalls and network/storage appliances).