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