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I was one of the core engineers @ layeredtech who managed the servers and HA for wordpress.com when they launched in 2006. If I remember correctly we were usin

I was one of the core engineers @ layeredtech who managed the servers and HA for wordpress.com when they launched in 2006. If I remember correctly we were using DNS round robin and haproxy -> apache -> mysql all on freebsd systems wow have things come a long ways since then also it's incredible the sustained growth of Wordpress after all this time. good memories... congrats Matt on all your success.

barsxl 14y ago
WordPress.com hasn't run on FreeBSD since the TextDrive days which was way before Layered Tech, before me and before WordPress.com was open to the public. We are 100% Debian today, but have used Ubuntu in the past. We never really used HAProxy either. I posted about out load balancer choices back in 2008 - http://barry.wordpress.com/2008/04/28/load-balancer-update/ http://barry.wordpress.com/2008/04/28/load-balancer-update/