Re: BSDStats: Project Status on May 13th, 2010

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Marc G. Fournier <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Status:
>
>  Over the past two weeks, there has been alot of work performed on the
> backend, including fixing a few "bugs" that were recently reported.
>
>  As a result of using HAProxy to load balance and help ensure uptime for
> reporting clients, someone recently reported that although their sent in
> their report, their country wasn't going up in the 'Countries' states.
>
>  This bug has been fixed (HAProxy was reporting Proxy IP vs Client IP) and
> we reset the stats period to 1st of May, causing a sharp drop in #s that has
> slowly been climbing back up again.
>
>  The result of the change is that now Panama isn't the largest distribution
> of PC-BSD anymore, but the USofA is back in that lead, with Russia quickly
> following.
>
> Stats Summary:
>
> As of May 13th, 2010 (based on reporting ~2 weeks of reporting period since
> fix) , the project has 3 733 hosts that have reported in, broken down as
> follows:
>
>         PC-BSD            2 357 hosts
>         FreeBSD           1 243 hosts
>         DesktopBSD           78 hosts
>         NetBSD               34 hosts
>         OpenBSD              12 hosts
>         DragonFly             9 hosts
>         MirBSD                0 hosts
>         MidnightBSD           0 hosts
>         GNU/kFreeBSD          0 hosts
>
> We currently have hosts being reported in from 88 countries, with the top 10
> being:
>
>         United States             752
>         Panama                    332
>         Russian Federation        332
>         Australia                 271
>         Germany                   204
>         Ukraine                   173
>         Japan                     121
>         Canada                    101
>         Brazil                     89
>         United Kingdom             89
>
> Project URL: http://www.bsdstats.org
>
> Project Objective:
>
> "The mission of this site is to compile semi-accurate numbers for advocacy
> and marketing of the *BSD operating systems."
>
> PC-BSD, to the best of our knowledge, is the only one that defaults to
> enabled, while the rest have to be enabled manually.
>
> For FreeBSD users, you just need to install /usr/ports/sysutils/bsdstats to
> set things up.
>
> There is now a man page / document that has been created, that contains a
> full description of the project, as well as the steps we take to ensure the
> anonymity of those reporting while maintaining the individuality of the
> reporting machines.  This can be found at:
>
>        http://www.bsdstats.org/bsdstats-8.html
>
> Project Uptime:
>
> In the beginning, there were issues with accessibility of the servers, due
> to only having one reporting server.  We have since moved to a distributed
> cluster using HAProxy to load balance between two physical servers, with a
> third one coming online soon.  http://www.bsdstats.org isn't running on this
> new cluster yet, but work is underway to get that moved over as well, which
> we hope to have accomplished over the next couple of days.
>
> If you have any questions, please feel free to email me ...


But I'm sending my stats. in Chilean country mark only one system,
those system are there previously to I send my stats

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