I&#x27;m surprised at this - I run four pfSense boxen;  my two homebrew ones on repurposed old machines have both died on me at least once, and the two running on purchased pfSense hardware are still up &amp; running.  Anecdote != data and all that, but I&#x27;d buy their hardware again if I didn&#x27;t have a large stack of machines I can reuse for &quot;free.&quot;  (ahem.  free does not count my time or that of my students, but sometimes it&#x27;s fun to admin things a little.)