Share sites running on FreeBSD

Not on FreeBSD at the moment, but I hosted 7 websites on 16.0-CURRENT about a month ago:
And two quick basic HTML pages (I usually use Joomla but Cypress doesn't support FreeBSD):
I found it lighter to do on FreeBSD than Fedora or openSUSE Linux! That's everything self-hostable I imagine I'd ever need, but I think a XMPP server would complete the stack :D (I used Prosody a while back). All bare-metal, no containers, efficient on nginx, PHP/MariaDB, and easy config to cross-OS nicely!
 
https://neokomusic.com
https://isaackenyon.xyz

Both bare-metal and no containers.

Using PF firewall, cron for backups and etc, light jail use, and of course ZFS.

Essentially attempted to optimize speeds for both as much as I can, pretty much just limited by residential ISP and Cloudflare haha (I currently have to use tunnels).

Still learning many other things about FreeBSD but it’s been fun running it on a single 2U server rack!
 
Is this for personal pages and unimportant stuff? https://www.scottro.net (not srobb.net), is running nginx in a freebsd jail. Just switched it over from Linux a couple of days ago. It's mostly a mirror of srobb.net with a few other things thrown on. And to my chagrin, when I changed to nginx from Apache I was getting 403 forbidden. Took me MUCH longer than I think it should have to figure out that index.html (nothing else) had 600 permissions. Once I figured it out, changing it to 644 fixed the issue. In my defense, I figured it was something I was missing in the conf file and spent a lot of time going over that. :-(
 
AlfredoLlaquet said:

Maintaining the World’s Fastest Content Delivery Network at Netflix on FreeBSD | FreeBSD Foundation

Netflix needed a high-performance, low-maintenance, and reliable operating system to stream content to their 260+ million subscribers efficiently.
freebsdfoundation.org freebsdfoundation.org

Everyone knew this one, right?
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Yup learned about Netflix not too long ago, and there are past forums talking about WhatsApp also.

Some more firsthand experience for me is my school having at least a couple FreeBSD machines for a cybersecurity course, not sure if it was just that professor or others.
 
covacat said:
http://2130706433/
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Heh http://2130706433:80/rs2.cgi works for a Runescape server :p

With WoW I messed with localhost vs 127.0.0.1 but found that localhost would drop the client connection if WAN disconnected (server and client same computer). I thought there might be a slightly different path allowing even lower latency somehow :p (if locahost DNS's to 127.0.01 then it's probably quicker to do 127 direct, but stuff accepting IPv6 can do it transparently with localhost vs ::1; then there's MySQL that apparently uses sockets with localhost specified)

2130706433 is an extra char vs localhost so I'm not sure I'd use it for anything, but that's cool! Firefox or the forum also seemingly auto-translates that to 127.0.0.1 on hover.
 
encryptddthat said:
Interesting, has YCombinator openly stated that they use FreeBSD? I always wondered how many actual servers they have since everything is text based.
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Former mod sctb from 2018 talks about it in this comment:
We’re recently running two machines (master and standby) at M5 Hosting. All of HN runs on a single box, nothing exotic:
CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2637 v4 @ 3.50GHz (3500.07-MHz K8-class CPU)
FreeBSD/SMP: 2 package(s) x 4 core(s) x 2 hardware threads
Mirrored SSDs for data, mirrored magnetic for logs (UFS)
We get around 4M requests a day.
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And dang (lead moderator or whatever his title is) confirms it again in 2021:
It's about the same as what Scott described here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16076041
But we get around 6M requests a day now.
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encryptddthat said:
Some more firsthand experience for me is my school having at least a couple FreeBSD machines for a cybersecurity course, not sure if it was just that professor or others.
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Out of curiosity, does the state university have anything to do with that recent hazing thing? (looks like ISU might differ from UIowa?)
 
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