Surviving yahoo's frontage and App Store featured listing
Seo Townsend <[email protected]>
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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. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"