Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 10:24:16 -0400 From: Seo Townsend <seotownsend@icloud.com> To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Surviving yahoo's frontage and App Store featured listing Message-ID: <E599BB7E-0629-4C51-B250-452683B19C36@icloud.com>
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I am a developer at fittr, we make a fitness app that was recently = featured on the yahoo homepage and app store top featured listings. We are a very small company with a small budget. We were not prepared = for the onslaught of traffic we recieved from the iStore and yahoo = homepage out of the blue; fortunately, FreeBSD was. We have two low costs FreeBSD servers (4GB 4 core, $60/mo) from rackspace = which are both running relatively complicated dynamic web applications = along with a redis database. During the peak of our traffic, both FreeBSD servers were serving all web pages within 15ms and all = services within 3ms without a hitch, load peaked at 23%. Stack = consisting of nginx, rails (web), sinatra (services), redis (database). There=92s a reason FreeBSD runs 1/3 of the internet.=
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