Hey, I need a dedicated server which can give me a bandwidth of atleast 7.5TB per month. My budget is about $300/month. Can anyone suggest me any site which fits my needs? Also, has anyone heard of www.dragonwebsolutions.com? they say they give 1TB bandwidth daily and its for $300/month but it has no alexa so dunno if I should go with them Please advise. thanks
7.5TB / mo ?? OMG needs a very fat pipe and would be very costly. Also, 1TB/day isnt possible on some regular cheap dedis (no such fat pipes)
You need 1000mbit for that.And Its impossible for that price.it will cost 1500 to 3500$/month. Also im sure they cant offer 1000gb daily bandwith,Thats probably their whole capacity and its shared.
Ya but have to buy a 1000mbit unmetered Well if you gonna use this for file share stuff,you should cluster it.10x100mbit lines will be better for you.
Copied from their website: I would really like to meet these server gurus who are able to handle 1,000Gb daily traffic with 2.8Ghz Xeon and 4Gb of ram...I would hire them straight away Honestly...that is not possible.
Really? Back of the napkin calculations: 1,000GB/day, or ~10,000Gbit with overhead, divided by 86400 seconds/day, ~115Mbps I have tuned servers to do 400Mbps per server, *sustained* not peak. Average cpu usage was 30 percent. Server specs: 4 x 500mhz xeon, 4GB ram, hardware raid running Win2K/IIS 5.0 And yes, I have a very particular way of setting up servers. My standard rule of thumb would be to triple the OP's rate because it presumes that all traffic is evenly spread. This may not be true. edit: on the same basis of estimation, 7.5TB/month spread evenly, is equivalent to ~30Mbps. caveat, i'm doing this in front of the tv, so i might have slipped a decimal point somewhere
Yes, the avg doesn't sound so bad, but unfortunately things don't work like that...First of all, there will be spikes when the traffic will be like 5-10x the avg (and of course moments when traffic is much lower than avg) and these spikes are the issue what a server that small can't handle. Of course if the server is only ment for file sharing, static websites with no database and things like that it could be possible, but normally this is not the case and that is why I say it's not possible. Or then my standards of acceptable server performance level are totally different from yours... I don't think server load avg higher than 4 is acceptable.
The load on the server matters not at all. But, in my mind, the ideal load is just short of saturation. That way, the server is sized just right. But, what matters in the end is the responsiveness of the server to requests. Users of adult sites are very demanding and have a zillion options to pick from