Subject: NetBSD and my life...
To: None <[email protected]>
From: gary rolland <[email protected]>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 09/10/2005 16:40:17 Hello NetBSD Team, I person been utilizing NetBSD for astir 2 years connected my laptop and never had immoderate problems. I usage this laptop successful activity and astatine home. I knew NetBSD was tin of overmuch more, and I was hellhole bent connected utilizing it astatine activity too! The main logic for this email is to fto you guys cognize what we mainly use NetBSD for - supporting complete 4,800 dense users (some remote) and counting. It's my communicative astir what NetBSD has done for my life, and how it has really improved my individual life. I dream you will enjoy it and that it'll connection further encouragement to proceed the truly excellent work. I'll commencement disconnected by introducing myself. My sanction is Gary Rolland and I live successful the United Kingdom. I activity successful a squad consisting of 3 other network admins. We each activity for a ample UK based company. Our task is to support the servers up and to do maintenance. We activity connected shifts and can beryllium called retired astatine immoderate time, nighttime aliases day. We are not responsible for the customer machines wrong the buildings. Sadly, I americium incapable to disclose the existent institution name. I received support to springiness you information astir what we usage NetBSD for and that only (I begged infact). Our web is ngo captious - down clip costs the company mega money. I surely would not want to ft the bill! (Note: I person besides been told not to disclose web infrastructure in great detail. If you person immoderate comments/questions, please do ask. I'll try my champion to reply them the champion I can) Currently, our web consists of 29 precocious extremity servers. They each run NetBSD 2.0.2 and woody pinch highly precocious loads. The servers handle: - MySQL databases - This makes up astir of our traffic/resource usage. - Apache - Internal and external - Postfix - Interval and outer email=20 - Samba - Allow the 4,800 users to link to the NFS. (Note: Our record servers are connected to NetBSD. So it's like=20 Users->NetBSD->File server. Our record servers tally Linux. Am not allowed to touch them! However, the email and httpd information is stored straight on the NetBSD servers. Just for your information, our record servers go down much than our servers;-)) Data facts(avg. per day): - NetBSD pushes complete 870GB of information per day. - NetBSD pushes astir 1,200 emails per time (not ever activity related. I have seen joke emails a while backmost pinch 12MB attachments! (12MB x 4500 :()). - NetBSD during highest hours, our httpd servers tin woody pinch 35 requests per minute(internal and external). The website is wrote in pretty dense PHP (and bad PHP, but that's not my call). Originally our web servers utilized Windows, moving connected much older hardware than we person now. We person precocious been done an upgrade. I tin picture my admining of Windows arsenic a complete f*cking nightmare. I was perpetually worrying complete erstwhile they would autumn over. Here is a small story: I had been promising my 12 twelvemonth aged girl and her friend that I would return them to Alton Towers. The nighttime earlier we had planned to go, I raced into the server rooms and checked everything was running. I was happy things would beryllium OK, because I was connected telephone retired the adjacent day and I couldn't fto my girl down again(this has happened much than once). We was having a awesome clip astatine Alton Towers and the worst thing happened. My activity telephone starts to ring. My daughters look just dropped, she knew precisely what was coming next. Boss: 'Gary, servers person each dropped to their knees. I request you present now.' Me: 'Sure, I'll beryllium location successful a fewer hours' (in a 'am going to kill someone voice'). It really upset maine to spot my girl fto down again, including a friend. They had been talking astir going each week and Microsoft Windows of each things messes everything up. Here I am, speeding up the motorway. My girl wholly pissed off, and for owed reasons to. This has happened galore different times before. I was moreover getting abit ratty astatine location since I'd beryllium reasoning of anything which could spell wrong. This besides lead to much arguments with the woman (which leads to a alteration successful different things... ;) I knew thing had to change. After I had fixed the problem, I stormed into my bosses agency and explained we request much admins aliases request to alteration our servers. Cut a long communicative short, he allowed maine to proceedings trial 2 of our servers on NetBSD. He didn't cognize thing astir it - conscionable that I promised him I could summation the stableness by a immense separator without disrupting business. That time I was successful a temper to alteration things(pissed), and truthful I took two servers home. One was what we telephone a 'MySQL' server and 1 httpd server(the bosses spell nuts if the httpd goes down). I had nary room to fail. I was up till 4 AM successful the greeting installing and configuring things to our nonstop needs. NetBSD arsenic ever installed flawlessly and I installed astir required package from pkgsrc. I roled these machines into the web successful the morning. I knew I had to hold now, until thing collapsed connected Windows and to show my boss which machines still stood strong. That day, a fewer MySQL machines conscionable decided to spell for a speedy break, and rebooted themselves a fewer times(MySQL queries began to beryllium acold too slow). The leader was storming(due to the time earlier also). I showed him which machines did not autumn down. He agreed wrong 2 hours for maine to role retired much NetBSD machines slowly. I was happy. At first it was hard. The different admins had nary hint really to usage NetBSD. However, pinch the clip we spent fixing the Windows servers, we now had spare time. I began to show them really to configure things and they actually took a individual interest. They installed it astatine location and began to tinker pinch it, making judge they understood really to compile kernels etc etc. You cognize the worldly americium talking about! I moreover printed the whole handbook retired for us. Our full Network was now moving NetBSD. Things changed. I was not arsenic engaged arsenic I ever was. My relationships where getting better. I had much clip pinch my girl to watch her grow up. The remainder of my squad agreed - this had been the champion move we had ever made. The leader besides agreed. He was delighted pinch our improved stability. Infact, he was truthful happy that nary of america are now on call retired of a weekend. We're allowed to admin from location utilizing ssh(we take turns per weekend). My squad and I are perpetually moving and learning. We're becoming more and much businesslike pinch NetBSD. NetBSD changed my teams life for the better. Last play I took my family to Alton Towers to decorativeness what we started. We had a awesome time! During the measurement home, this clip not speeding, I has reasoning astir the group down it. Those who put in time, small aliases ample to make the task what it is. I decided to tell you guys my story, to show your activity is greatly appreciated! Once more, acknowledgment again for the each the work. Please support it up. Please usage this email successful immoderate measurement you wish. Post it connected your personal website aliases whatever. Best Regards, Gary Rolland.
To: None <[email protected]>
From: gary rolland <[email protected]>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 09/10/2005 16:40:17 Hello NetBSD Team, I person been utilizing NetBSD for astir 2 years connected my laptop and never had immoderate problems. I usage this laptop successful activity and astatine home. I knew NetBSD was tin of overmuch more, and I was hellhole bent connected utilizing it astatine activity too! The main logic for this email is to fto you guys cognize what we mainly use NetBSD for - supporting complete 4,800 dense users (some remote) and counting. It's my communicative astir what NetBSD has done for my life, and how it has really improved my individual life. I dream you will enjoy it and that it'll connection further encouragement to proceed the truly excellent work. I'll commencement disconnected by introducing myself. My sanction is Gary Rolland and I live successful the United Kingdom. I activity successful a squad consisting of 3 other network admins. We each activity for a ample UK based company. Our task is to support the servers up and to do maintenance. We activity connected shifts and can beryllium called retired astatine immoderate time, nighttime aliases day. We are not responsible for the customer machines wrong the buildings. Sadly, I americium incapable to disclose the existent institution name. I received support to springiness you information astir what we usage NetBSD for and that only (I begged infact). Our web is ngo captious - down clip costs the company mega money. I surely would not want to ft the bill! (Note: I person besides been told not to disclose web infrastructure in great detail. If you person immoderate comments/questions, please do ask. I'll try my champion to reply them the champion I can) Currently, our web consists of 29 precocious extremity servers. They each run NetBSD 2.0.2 and woody pinch highly precocious loads. The servers handle: - MySQL databases - This makes up astir of our traffic/resource usage. - Apache - Internal and external - Postfix - Interval and outer email=20 - Samba - Allow the 4,800 users to link to the NFS. (Note: Our record servers are connected to NetBSD. So it's like=20 Users->NetBSD->File server. Our record servers tally Linux. Am not allowed to touch them! However, the email and httpd information is stored straight on the NetBSD servers. Just for your information, our record servers go down much than our servers;-)) Data facts(avg. per day): - NetBSD pushes complete 870GB of information per day. - NetBSD pushes astir 1,200 emails per time (not ever activity related. I have seen joke emails a while backmost pinch 12MB attachments! (12MB x 4500 :()). - NetBSD during highest hours, our httpd servers tin woody pinch 35 requests per minute(internal and external). The website is wrote in pretty dense PHP (and bad PHP, but that's not my call). Originally our web servers utilized Windows, moving connected much older hardware than we person now. We person precocious been done an upgrade. I tin picture my admining of Windows arsenic a complete f*cking nightmare. I was perpetually worrying complete erstwhile they would autumn over. Here is a small story: I had been promising my 12 twelvemonth aged girl and her friend that I would return them to Alton Towers. The nighttime earlier we had planned to go, I raced into the server rooms and checked everything was running. I was happy things would beryllium OK, because I was connected telephone retired the adjacent day and I couldn't fto my girl down again(this has happened much than once). We was having a awesome clip astatine Alton Towers and the worst thing happened. My activity telephone starts to ring. My daughters look just dropped, she knew precisely what was coming next. Boss: 'Gary, servers person each dropped to their knees. I request you present now.' Me: 'Sure, I'll beryllium location successful a fewer hours' (in a 'am going to kill someone voice'). It really upset maine to spot my girl fto down again, including a friend. They had been talking astir going each week and Microsoft Windows of each things messes everything up. Here I am, speeding up the motorway. My girl wholly pissed off, and for owed reasons to. This has happened galore different times before. I was moreover getting abit ratty astatine location since I'd beryllium reasoning of anything which could spell wrong. This besides lead to much arguments with the woman (which leads to a alteration successful different things... ;) I knew thing had to change. After I had fixed the problem, I stormed into my bosses agency and explained we request much admins aliases request to alteration our servers. Cut a long communicative short, he allowed maine to proceedings trial 2 of our servers on NetBSD. He didn't cognize thing astir it - conscionable that I promised him I could summation the stableness by a immense separator without disrupting business. That time I was successful a temper to alteration things(pissed), and truthful I took two servers home. One was what we telephone a 'MySQL' server and 1 httpd server(the bosses spell nuts if the httpd goes down). I had nary room to fail. I was up till 4 AM successful the greeting installing and configuring things to our nonstop needs. NetBSD arsenic ever installed flawlessly and I installed astir required package from pkgsrc. I roled these machines into the web successful the morning. I knew I had to hold now, until thing collapsed connected Windows and to show my boss which machines still stood strong. That day, a fewer MySQL machines conscionable decided to spell for a speedy break, and rebooted themselves a fewer times(MySQL queries began to beryllium acold too slow). The leader was storming(due to the time earlier also). I showed him which machines did not autumn down. He agreed wrong 2 hours for maine to role retired much NetBSD machines slowly. I was happy. At first it was hard. The different admins had nary hint really to usage NetBSD. However, pinch the clip we spent fixing the Windows servers, we now had spare time. I began to show them really to configure things and they actually took a individual interest. They installed it astatine location and began to tinker pinch it, making judge they understood really to compile kernels etc etc. You cognize the worldly americium talking about! I moreover printed the whole handbook retired for us. Our full Network was now moving NetBSD. Things changed. I was not arsenic engaged arsenic I ever was. My relationships where getting better. I had much clip pinch my girl to watch her grow up. The remainder of my squad agreed - this had been the champion move we had ever made. The leader besides agreed. He was delighted pinch our improved stability. Infact, he was truthful happy that nary of america are now on call retired of a weekend. We're allowed to admin from location utilizing ssh(we take turns per weekend). My squad and I are perpetually moving and learning. We're becoming more and much businesslike pinch NetBSD. NetBSD changed my teams life for the better. Last play I took my family to Alton Towers to decorativeness what we started. We had a awesome time! During the measurement home, this clip not speeding, I has reasoning astir the group down it. Those who put in time, small aliases ample to make the task what it is. I decided to tell you guys my story, to show your activity is greatly appreciated! Once more, acknowledgment again for the each the work. Please support it up. Please usage this email successful immoderate measurement you wish. Post it connected your personal website aliases whatever. Best Regards, Gary Rolland.
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