On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 7:24 AM, Seo Townsend <seotowns...@icloud.com> 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.
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 _______________________________________________ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-advocacy-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
