# FiLiS runs FreeBSD I'm a sysadmin-by-accident since about 1998. I co-founded [netzkommune.de] in 2000 and now we mostly specialize in managed hosting and consulting. I kinda stumbled into the whole Internet business pretty much after high school, while working part time at a dotcom-startup in 1998. Being the only person who "knew" Linux (I had installed some Linux distro from floppy in ~1995 on my 486), I was tasked with all things non-Windows, running stock qmail back when it was pretty new. When starting _netzkommune_, we ran some Slackware and/or Red Hat (I don't quite recall), hosted on an AMD K6 at Rackspace. When talking to a friend about qmail and how complicated patching and installing it, he showed me the [FreeBSD] ports system and how installing qmail there was just cd `/usr/ports/mail/qmail && make install`. The next box I set up was FreeBSD 4.3 and I never looked back. Today, all of our servers run FreeBSD, its main benefits for us are ZFS, jails and poudriere. Being able to prepackage and test things with our own/multiple configs, takes the edge off of most of packaging tasks, knowing there are replicated snapshots of pretty much everything as an addition to offsite backups for quick recovery of a fatfingered file modification, is invaluable to us. Not being a developer, I still feel I can grasp most of the OS's processes and architecture, that simplicity a huge plus that most people seem to have forgotten about. Find me on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/FiLis) and [Mastodon](https://mastodon.social/@FiLiS). _[12 Aug 2018](/raw/people/filis.md)_ [FreeBSD]: https://www.freebsd.org/ [netzkommune.de]: https://www.netzkommune.de/