Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 11:09:04 +1000 From: Kubilay Kocak <koobs@FreeBSD.org> To: Seo Townsend <seotownsend@icloud.com>, freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Surviving yahoo's frontage and App Store featured listing Message-ID: <53ED5DB0.9040902@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <E599BB7E-0629-4C51-B250-452683B19C36@icloud.com> References: <E599BB7E-0629-4C51-B250-452683B19C36@icloud.com>
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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
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