OT: Success Story

[Jeremy McDermond]

I thought I'd relate this success story to all of you -current people.

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                                                     
   mcdermj at peak.org
Lead Engineer
Peak Internet, LLC                                                      
                 (541) 738-4921