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> The price of running BSD in production in a responsible way is that you need a fairly sizable team of >4-6 people. Probably salary cost alone would run close
by throw0101a 4y ago
> The price of running BSD in production in a responsible way is that you need a fairly sizable team of >4-6 people. Probably salary cost alone would run close to a million per year. That's a big commitment to run anything and hiring is going to be tough.
Meanwhile WhatsApp ran their entire infrastructure on FreeBSD and were able to serve a billion end-users with not a lot of people.
- trasz 4y agoThere are many more Whatsapp-like stories; see https://freebsdfoundation.org/about-us/testimonials/ https://freebsdfoundation.org/about-us/testimonials/.
- nix23 4y agoAnd i would even argue that it's easier to learn FreeBSD coming from Linux-X then to Switch from, for example RedHat to Ubuntu.
- NexRebular 4y agoMaybe FreeBSD is more reliable and has better documentation so it doesn't eat up as much admin resources as its "competitors"?
- tristan957 4y agoI have read that the FreeBSD networking stack is one of the best out there. Some of the largest companies are running their products on FreeBSD. Facebook, I believe, runs a ton of FreeBSD.
- comprev 4y agoHotmail originally ran on FreeBSD, as did WhatsApp (might have changed now). Netflix still uses it for their caching boxes and probably elsewhere in the infrastructure.