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Colin Percival
@cpercivaTracked since May 2026
creating FreeBSD releases and the FreeBSD/EC2 platform.
Observed Aug 28, 2026 · stalePublic earnings
Paid members
17
0% · 30-day rate from 24 observed days
Total audience
53
incl. free followers
Observed monthly earnings
$270
Starting price
$5/mo
5 membership tiers
Where the 52 observed tier members sit
Membership tiers$069.2%$523.1%
Largest observed tier is $0 Free. Tier totals include free-tier members and come from the Aug 28, 2026 public snapshot, so they do not reconcile to the paid-member total.
$0/moFree3669.2% of observed tier members
$5/moFreeBSD/EC2 user1223.1% of observed tier members
$50/moFreeBSD/EC2 corporate user47.7% of observed tier members
$500/moFreeBSD/EC2 power user00% of observed tier members
$5,000/moFreeBSD/EC2 support plan00% of observed tier members
Growth signals: Colin Percival
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Membership17 paid members · 30-day rate from 24 observed days
171817
May 202618 weeks trackedNow
Colin Percival17 members · $270/mo
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No comparable peer is available yet, so Colin Percival's cohort rank cannot be calculated.Ranking data · includes stale rows| Rank | Creator and why included | Paid members | Gap vs Colin Percival | Freshness |
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| Not ranked |  Colin PercivalProfileUncategorizedPaid members position in Recommended cohort | 17 | Reference | Aug 28, 2026Stale |
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Article Latest postPublicFreeBSD AMI ID pagesI've been publishing EC2 AMI IDs in the SSM Parameter Store for a long time, but I realized recently that not everyone is a shell script, and some people like to use web browsers to look up stuff like this. ;-)
February 19 0 likes 1 commentPatched FreeBSD AMIsAmazon has started sponsoring my FreeBSD/EC2 work again (but not general release engineering work this time) and it has already yielded a payoff: We now have FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE-p1 AMIs, and a process for quickly (~2 hours) producing new images whenever there's a security/errata update.ImageJanuary 24Public 0 1A year of funded FreeBSDMy sponsorship from Amazon is coming to an end (at least for now -- maybe they'll find some money to sponsor me again in the future?) so I wrote a bit about what I've been doing over the past year: https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2025-06-06-A-year-of-funded-FreeBSD.htmlArticleJun 7, 2025Public 0 0AMI Builder AMIs are now part of release engineeringI've reworked the process of creating AMI Builder AMIs, and integrated them into the FreeBSD release engineering process; so they're now available as part of the weekly snapshot builds and will be in the upcoming 14.3-RELEASE. In addition to providing images for both amd64 and arm64, this also means that we'll have AMI Builder images for ZFS -- which is to say, the ZFS AMI Builder AMI is actually a UFS image, but it creates a ZFS image.ImageMay 6, 2025Public 0 1FreeBSD/EC2 boot performance graphsJust finished some automated boot performance graph generation. Let me know what you think; I plan on announcing it (more) publicly in a few days.ArticleOct 14, 2024Public 0 0Does anyone care about RSA host keys?When a new EC2 instance boots, a stupidly long time is spent generating RSA host keys for sshd. (The ecdsa and ec25519 keys are fast to generate.) And by "stupidly long" I mean I just saw an EC2 instance take 11 seconds to boot of which 3 seconds was spent generating the RSA host key.ArticleSep 10, 2024Public 0 8Boot performance benchmarkingI've started collecting data on FreeBSD/EC2 boot performance (aka how long it takes from when you call RunInstances to when you can SSH in). But there's a lot of data -- over 2000 AMIs -- including amd64, arm64, UFS, ZFS, "base" FreeBSD, and "cloud-init" FreeBSD.ImageAug 21, 2024Public 0 2AWS sponsorship!For the next year, I will be receiving sponsorship from Amazon for my FreeBSD/EC2 work. Without going into too many details, it's a signifi...ArticleJul 30, 2024$5 tier & up 3 10A Question for FreeBSD/EC2 usersHow much do you care about new features in future 13.x releases?ArticleApr 15, 2024Public 0 8cloud-init AMI code committedI just pushed the bits needed to start building cloud-init AMIs: https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=1f4ce7a39f0f4b0621ff55d228014ccddb366d37ImageSep 28, 2023Public 0 0ZFS AMI issues resolvedThanks to some amazing debugging by Mark Johnston, the issue with ZFS AMIs has been tracked down and fixed -- too late for this week's builds, but we should have working ZFS AMIs for 14.0-RC1 next week.ArticleSep 28, 2023Public 0 0Heads up: ZFS AMIs have issuesAbout a month ago I announced that we're now building ZFS-root AMIs. This remains true; however, I've been seeing severe stability issues -- memory corruption panics -- in the testing I've been doing. So I recommend not using these images for now.ImageSep 14, 2023Public 0 0
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