From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 5 13:46:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA06087 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 5 Jun 1997 13:46:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from federation.addy.com (federation.addy.com [207.239.68.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA06029; Thu, 5 Jun 1997 13:44:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (fbsdlist@localhost) by federation.addy.com (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id QAA18520; Thu, 5 Jun 1997 16:44:28 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 16:44:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Cliff Addy To: Robert Eckardt cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: REQ: FreeBSD in our life In-Reply-To: <199706051049.MAA05384@beta.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Robert Eckardt wrote: > I would like to collect some information on "real-life" boxes that > handle some traffic (mail, www, ...) (besides ftp.cdrom.com :-). > (Like a mail server with some (ten-)thousand mails/day) Well, I'm sure we're not the biggest thing out there, but we run a web-hosting service that handles around 450 sites, generating about 1/2 million hits a day. Also churns through about 3000 email messages a day. All this is handled with FreeBSD with aplomb. We've grown rapidly and the #2 reason our customers give for their high satifaction (second to technical support) is the fact that we're *always* up and running. We might take a machine down *maybe* 5 minutes a month. I attribute this directly to FreeBSD. Other than the Adaptec driver bug, it's been rock-solid. Every day, we get clients from other hosts running NT/Linux/Sun/SCO because "they're always going down." Cliff http://addy.com