I have tons of experience with FreeBSD in an enterprise environment and can say hands down that pf is the best firewall money can't buy. That said, Red Hat has largely replaced FreeBSD for a lot of CIOs over the last 10 years. I really think startups should launch on CentOS instead of Ubuntu which seems to be the trend.
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