From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 14 14:24:34 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AE5FC50A for ; Thu, 14 Aug 2014 14:24:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from st11p01mm-asmtp001.mac.com (st11p01mm-asmtp001.mac.com [17.172.204.239]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.me.com", Issuer "VeriSign Class 3 Extended Validation SSL SGC CA" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 80C912CDD for ; Thu, 14 Aug 2014 14:24:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.15] (pool-71-180-105-200.tampfl.fios.verizon.net [71.180.105.200]) by st11p01mm-asmtp001.mac.com (Oracle Communications Messaging Server 7u4-27.10(7.0.4.27.9) 64bit (built Jun 6 2014)) with ESMTPSA id <0NAA00GHGW0H1F70@st11p01mm-asmtp001.mac.com> for freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org; Thu, 14 Aug 2014 14:24:18 +0000 (GMT) X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:5.12.52,1.0.27,0.0.0000 definitions=2014-08-14_03:2014-08-14,2014-08-14,1970-01-01 signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 spamscore=0 suspectscore=1 phishscore=0 adultscore=0 bulkscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=7.0.1-1402240000 definitions=main-1408140179 From: Seo Townsend Content-type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Surviving yahoo's frontage and App Store featured listing Message-id: Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 10:24:16 -0400 To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org MIME-version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.3 \(1878.6\)) X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1878.6) X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 14:24:34 -0000 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.= From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 15 01:09:13 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 03E22362 for ; Fri, 15 Aug 2014 01:09:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pd0-x230.google.com (mail-pd0-x230.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400e:c02::230]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CA5472A0C for ; Fri, 15 Aug 2014 01:09:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pd0-f176.google.com with SMTP id y10so2504321pdj.21 for ; Thu, 14 Aug 2014 18:09:12 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=sender:message-id:date:from:reply-to:user-agent:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=0yMaei9rytcQ3f/J+YQwew4ZHP7plWVYHWMmF/m6zms=; b=VUE+bgKtuRUWeKbgwqBYmh2maYH1njZsxEi1ln1AIQMYYodqtOJVs/IT4S1eAzTqwK OnKtUKfe7Hp/VGVAGZ/vXUDUPbWyzJMu4L+lbrAS62GTRPpYwYkoAssf1yq8JaMhvP41 O7mwyVg3XW+fanNH1U4EtR9xTrMoLRFBHD44NKWcAnci7Uk0kRF3mgzHcrUS55EOlC/+ 94E/OAcR21FqUM1ENeqrDv5t3kTVTvbuAfr9KfG1LhDR0nPqKMqQ/emx2Ltr11LQrGqQ NAJT4dVnqDc4p1ahxXnxIVAUZfymsgaXbfCNZSltJs0Q1w8l/ONUYcRORXumQz9451cO D3Yw== X-Received: by 10.66.129.139 with SMTP id nw11mr8010393pab.16.1408064952366; Thu, 14 Aug 2014 18:09:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?IPv6:2001:44b8:31ae:7b00:ecf4:463d:8e55:5495? 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[2001:44b8:31ae:7b00:ecf4:463d:8e55:5495]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id fh2sm6523421pbb.89.2014.08.14.18.09.10 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 14 Aug 2014 18:09:11 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Kubilay Kocak Message-ID: <53ED5DB0.9040902@FreeBSD.org> Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 11:09:04 +1000 From: Kubilay Kocak Reply-To: koobs@FreeBSD.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Seo Townsend , freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Surviving yahoo's frontage and App Store featured listing References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 01:09:13 -0000 On 15/08/2014 12:24 AM, Seo Townsend wrote: > 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’s a reason FreeBSD runs 1/3 of the internet. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-advocacy-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > What a great story Seo! The community always welcomes and is glad to hear about another success, especially in the fast-paced startup world. Keep the community updated on your progress, growth, future achievements, as well as your challenges. Our community is a vibrant one and would love to experience it with you and support you along the way. Thank you for sharing :) -- Kubilay "koobs" Kocak From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 15 02:10:04 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 07A49B87 for ; Fri, 15 Aug 2014 02:10:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-we0-x229.google.com (mail-we0-x229.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c03::229]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 956592047 for ; Fri, 15 Aug 2014 02:10:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-we0-f169.google.com with SMTP id u56so1814113wes.14 for ; Thu, 14 Aug 2014 19:10:01 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:reply-to:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=GcSiD36O77QHlbIoQRKomJGPaCs/8GoMAiO13f6aRFA=; b=aksGCWhUD87mqNqAgJJ7q6d7TKpz4lKDSuKi/8UE4UL7yz5RnzAUGrVwCsb00a/8ur 6Xdl/zpvCiB/GFYdei9bjkzvPPIutUld7NMAC7PjEPPvF8S+mVV+2hlh8b7zZ86lpua0 8E25lyFfPqce1+V03wHxp4SK+RS+hDimmf55DiXIgqNGgCBTrbXGM61+gKuqiKl8UohU LI/KqoCS7IKx11Dd1e1JV+2Th6Cf2dyQ+v4WFDJm3iH2IEMzpVu+iDg3dHmQf29VSk5s 9bDc7QGQ2Cv1oCYjelCo3z8D2B5ty3BdC25MDJ0hC0xdq9oHn/iUKGwbAeYNoSvj6rpA nb7w== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.194.161.231 with SMTP id xv7mr13119312wjb.78.1408068601720; Thu, 14 Aug 2014 19:10:01 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: matt@ixsystems.com Sender: mattjeet@gmail.com Received: by 10.194.14.40 with HTTP; Thu, 14 Aug 2014 19:10:01 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 19:10:01 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: SNEQYn__UrWma_2RFXTg-gPZehI Message-ID: Subject: Re: Surviving yahoo's frontage and App Store featured listing From: Matt Olander To: Seo Townsend Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 02:10:04 -0000 On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 7:24 AM, Seo Townsend wrot= e: > I am a developer at fittr, we make a fitness app that was recently featur= ed on the yahoo homepage and app store top featured listings. > > We are a very small company with a small budget. We were not prepared fo= r the onslaught of traffic we recieved from the iStore and yahoo homepage o= ut of the blue; fortunately, FreeBSD was. We > have two low costs FreeBSD servers (4GB 4 core, $60/mo) from rackspace wh= ich 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 servi= ces within 3ms without a hitch, load peaked at 23%. Stack consisting of ng= inx, rails (web), sinatra (services), redis (database). > > There=E2=80=99s a reason FreeBSD runs 1/3 of the internet. It looks like you guys made some great choices all the way across the stack= ;) Thanks for sharing, I'll definitely try out the app! Cheers, -matt