| Large hosting provider switches to FreeBSD |
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For Immediate Release: The servers were previously running Red Hat Linux 9 and Red Hat Linux Advanced Server. "Based on our experience with high traffic internet systems where reliability is a must, the FreeBSD operating system has proven itself many times over. FreeBSD is in use at some of the highest traffic sites on the internet and our customer needed the best throughput available," said Matt Olander, iXsystems engineer. "The FreeBSD operating system delivered on all of Host Department's requirements including ease of administration, reliability, and security." The initial migration of 20 systems happened one year ago and the systems have been very stable since, said iXsystems production manager, Austin Stewart. "Unlike the previous operating system we had, which was getting compromised at least once a month and caused our sysadmins small to major headaches, FreeBSD is simply untouchable," said Jimmy Rianto, CEO of Host Department, LLC. "The FreeBSD systems are able to work and combine multiple huge hard disks which sum up to many terabytes of disk space," said Rianto. "Our free hosting servers [which run FreeBSD] never crash, while running over 520,000 websites and get millions of requests per day," said Rianto. Host Department also hosts more than 32,000 domain names for their premium hosting services using FreeBSD. The iXsystems hardware used for this migration were primarily dual Xeon mirrored SCSI systems. The backup server was one of the first 4TB+ systems using the 3ware 9500 series card in production, said Olander. About FreeBSD About Host Department About iXsystems, Inc. For more information: |
