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.=