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Highly available web-server with batteries for small business:

1. Goto digitalocean.com or linode.com

2. Buy the smallest instance.

3. Install FreeBSD.

4. Let it run for the next 2 decades without ever needing to touch it.

I am a huge FreeBSD nerd, but bro, that isn't even remotely true. Telling people BS like this actively harms FreeBSD and the community that uses/supports it.

A former client of mine had a Linode box running the app another of his connsultants hosted on some random Ubuntu Linux box. It ran for ten years with the occasional (once every couple months) restart. The ancient Python 2.x version the app used finally started causing problems because it didn't support TLS version one-point-whatever. A month ago I re-wrote the part of the app he actually needed and put it on a Linode box using the latest Debian. I suspect it will run with the occasional restart for another decade.

Get someone to host (and backup) your PostgreSQL database for you and don't sweat literally everything else. 99.999% uptime is for Walmart.

What about security patches, how does it work in the FreeBSD world?

Same way it works on Linux. The parent poster is exaggerating and greatly oversimplifying the situation.

Remote exploits in apache/nginx and openssh don't come along that often.

YMMV for the appserver and its dependencies.

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