He prolly will. it's 5:40 AM here. But I've been up all night, he is prolly sane enough to sleep at regular hours.
Hardware based firewall. No clue how it compares to any Windows based one. The thought never even remotely crossed my mind to run a Windows server for anything (so I've never looked at them). I don't have a T1, I have a fractional T3. And it's not cheap (I pay a premium for quality bandwidth/colo facility). It's the same facility places like Yahoo and SBC use. Many terabytes. Tiger. That was just for this forum (which is small bandwidth-wise compared to other stuff I do), and only for about 3 weeks.
So I'm a bit confused sorry You purchase space in the co-location center correct? And this allows you to put in your own servers, etc?
Ohhhh cool. I thought it meant like.....you data got copied around different centers around the planet so there were multiple access nodes / back ups.
Is there any elasticity in your bandwidth? Can you go over and pay a surcharge for extra bandwidth or are you hard-capped at your rate? I remember the first T1 line I bought back in 1995. With data carrier and ip it was like 3k a month. Weren't many T3s around at the time except for the backbone carriers.
I just wonder if its only a virtual fractional T3? Most datacenters you speak of are running optical circuits or gigaMAN fibre out of the core, generally they carve a certain amount of bandwidth out with rate limiting on the front end.
These days they are, when frame-relay networks were more prevalent there was more of a guaranteed to burst ratio involved but these days the datacenter and backup datacenters will likely be tied together in GigaMAN-E or Optical Sonnet MPLS network until the point that they route out of the NAP.
Yeah, it's a virtual fractional T3. Which is nice because I can crank it up to 1000/Mbit within 5 minutes with a call.
Hopefully Cisco or Juniper considering the amount of traffic you are talking about. Firewall appliances are much better anyway, they are already hardened and you don't need to worry about exploits in the OS as well as in the firewall software. Gee, you seem to be about as big of a geek as I am...
Right, the most recent datacenter colocations I helped put together was connected over Gig E to a couple of Cisco GSR routers, we would just rate limit the amount of traffic inbound over the untrusted (internet) interface. They were running about 8MB (full duplex) for internet traffic off a statewide network with around 4000 users.
And so your sister can keep mooching off your servers and bandwidth ! Just kidding (sort of...haha...)
vBulletin using more resources is really not true. Especially with the version 3.5 onwards, Jelsoft has started improving this software a lot for supporting lareger sites.