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Bare metal vs Virtualization
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I'd say it depends. I run BSD's in my setup, with a freebsd "development" server running a bunch of jails for projects. I find that easier to maintain than a vm host lately. I just have one more vm to port over to a jail, then I'm retiring my 12 year old server, and looking for a new one.
I have another freebsd box running as a file server for the house, where I drop all our media and a copy of important backups.
I kind of use bsd jails like containers. Once I get one working, I can package it and send it to a server, jnpackage it, and run it with minimal effort/reconfiguration.