Not that I don't truse SUSE, but at http://bsd.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=92486&cid=7951598 someone's very pleased with FreeBSD 5.0: "Our site gets a million hits a day on a completely db-driven website. Both the Apache webserver and the two replicated MySQL servers on the backend are all running FreeBSD 5, and have been for months now." Does this configuration sound vaguely familiar? An alternative to consider in case SUSE proves unstable.
Magnus