[epitactic]

This is why I've setup my homelab with a hypervisor, you don't have to choose and can run each of these operating systems, for specific purposes they are best suited for. This is what I do:

OpenIndiana: file server (ZFS)

OpenBSD: firewall, router, network services (DHCP, DNS, NAT)

DragonflyBSD: game server

FreeBSD: other general application services

I haven't found a personal use case for NetBSD yet, though I would like to (it is great for embedded systems).

[bpye]

Is OpenIndiana really better than FreeBSD or ZFS on Linux today? I’ve had a pretty great experience using ZFS with NixOS but I’m curious if I’m missing anything.

[doublepg23]

Yeah I think using ZFS on even Linux is fine now since they’re using the same code base at this point.(IME Ubuntu has the most painless experience as it ships with the kernel by default.)

[Enginerrrd]

Which hypervisor are you using for that? I used to run Xen for a similar purpose, but I ended up just running normal debian with a bunch of lxc containers instead after dealing with some Xen issues that were difficult to unravel.

[epitactic]

ESXi (free version), it works well though if I had to do it again from scratch today, I'd probably go with KVM

[Datagenerator]

Tried Proxmox?

[NexRebular]

Or SmartOS?

[johnisgood]

Why did you choose DragonflyBSD for the game server vs. another BSD?

[amatecha]

Also, which games? curious what is easily hosted on BSD :)

[na85]

Which games are you hosting on dragonfly, and is the performance actually better than freebsd?

[mirekrusin]

"All of them" is an interesting answer.