Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 19:10:01 -0700 From: Matt Olander <matt@ixsystems.com> To: Seo Townsend <seotownsend@icloud.com> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Surviving yahoo's frontage and App Store featured listing Message-ID: <CAK6u07X_5HkCCZd=cXxss%2BHLscFBTn3VKEaFy6sdSKF_NNQovA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <E599BB7E-0629-4C51-B250-452683B19C36@icloud.com> References: <E599BB7E-0629-4C51-B250-452683B19C36@icloud.com>
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On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 7:24 AM, Seo Townsend <seotownsend@icloud.com> 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
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