rdeckard0104

I disagree.

FreeBSD is just as easy to administer as Linux. Solaris I find to be a bit more challenging. I can appreciate your commentary, but I challenge you to prove me wrong. Just for some color I've ran the Gambit of Unix and Linux systems in my career with FreeBSD being one of the easiest and most consistent out of the box technologies. Solaris had already been quite the opposite. I guess you could say AIX is a close second to Solaris, but I think that's a bit of a grey area considering how opinionated that operating system is.

To be clear I'm not a FreeBSD zealot. I'm for what works. Right now what works is the emerging container based solutions albeit not relevant to this discussion.

Do you mean wildcard SSL certificates or SNI? You can use wildcard SSL certificates with the GCE load balancer, but it does not have native SNI support. You'd have to roll your own there.

I wouldn't say playing catch up so much as I would say they're focused on features that provide the greatest amount of benefit to the greatest number of users. SNI is easily solved by setting up a Nginx proxy behind their HTTPS load balancer. Sure, I would really like it if SNI were baked in, but where they may seem like they fall short on small things, like this they are eons ahead of other providers with products, like BigQuery. BigQuery has made all the difference in the world for our engineering department. We have a vast, robust data warehouse, it's easy to read/write, easy to manage, and best of all we do not have the brunt maintenance around supports its own infrastructure.

I read the title and call only think of Frank Reynolds.

Awful marketing for what is likely to be a continuity of sub-par products.