We are the webhost for talklikeapirate.com -- the official site for "International Talk Like a Pirate Day" that happened this past friday. This is about as big an event that the small regional ISP I work for has ever seen. I have been working on designs for our new web servers all summer, using FreeBSD 5.1R as our OS. When it became apparent to us that the Linux based server the website was on was not going to handle the load gracefully, we switched our operations to our untested FreeBSD cluster. The new cluster shined, and sustained the traffic, which reached 2000 simultaneous connections, without a hiccup. We have a lot of linux zealots in our organization, and FreeBSD was a hard sell for me initially. This event has validated my choice to others in the organization.
The point of all of this is that I wanted to thank all of the folks that work so hard on FreeBSD. The product is excellent, and the interactions I've had with everyone involved with the project has been stellar. The nature of the job is that it's pretty thankless, and I think you guys could use an "attaboy" every once in a while. I could not be successful without all of your hard work and contributions. Thanks again!
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Jeremy C. McDermond [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Lead Engineer
Peak Internet, LLC (541) 738-4921
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