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Large Web Hosting Provider Switches to FreeBSD

April 22 2005 Offmyserver a rackmount server provider recently completed a migration of 50 servers to the FreeBSD operating system for Host Department a large web hosting and hosting reseller company 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 Offmyserver engineer The FreeBSD operating system delivered on all of Host Departments 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 Offmyserver 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 520000 websites and get millions of requests per day said Rianto Host Department also hosts more than 32000 domain names for their premium hosting services using FreeBSD
The Offmyserver 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
FreeBSD is a complete and advanced Unixlike operating system which can be used as a secure and highperformance workstation network server or firewall FreeBSD is developed by a team of over 200 developers Over 12000 thirdparty software suites are freely available for quick installation from the FreeBSD Packages Collection More information about FreeBSD is available on the web at httpwwwFreeBSDorg
About Offmyserver
Offmyserver provides custom and preconfigured highperformance rackmount servers firewalls and appliances for internet data centers enterprise data centers and content delivery networks Based in San Jose Calif Offmyserver can be found on the internet at httpwwwoffmyservercom
About Host Department
Host Department LLC is a lowcost website hosting and reseller company that provides various free and premium web hosting services They have five redundant DS3 capable of 45Mbps each lines and one OC3 connection with a less than 30percent average saturation Host Department provides 24hour tollfree technical support redundant power and a secure network operations center Host Departments website is at httpwwwhostdepartmentcom

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