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  1. #1
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    Default 1GBps unmetered server good or bad to buy?

    I would like to ask someone with experience if the 1GBps unmetered server good or bad to buy for video streaming?
    Because I have a server with connection 100mbps and some times the server have timeouts with CPU - Core2Duo 6550 and memory - 4GB RAM also with lighthttpd installed.
    Server load
    Code:
    top - 16:33:40 up 21 days,  1:46,  1 user,  load average: 0.87, 1.06, 1.03
    Tasks: 251 total,   1 running, 250 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
    Cpu(s):  0.1%us,  0.3%sy,  0.0%ni, 87.4%id,  4.1%wa,  0.3%hi,  7.8%si,  0.0%st
    Mem:   4138640k total,  3977876k used,   160764k free,    13188k buffers
    Swap:  2031608k total,      132k used,  2031476k free,  3715180k cached
    
      PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
      573 apache    15   0 37552  11m 1744 S    0  0.3   0:01.03 httpd
     1169 apache    15   0 37552  11m 1744 S    0  0.3   0:00.79 httpd
    12649 apache    15   0 37552  11m 1744 S    0  0.3   0:00.52 httpd
    12653 apache    15   0 37552  11m 1744 S    0  0.3   0:00.35 httpd
    21031 lighttpd  15   0 11840 7548  564 S    0  0.2  63:47.60 lighttpd
    24313 root      15   0  2324 1120  804 R    0  0.0   0:00.07 top
    30201 apache    15   0 37552  11m 1744 S    0  0.3   0:00.22 httpd
        1 root      15   0  2064  588  508 S    0  0.0   0:01.52 init
        2 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:02.45 migration/0
        3 root      34  19     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.15 ksoftirqd/0
        4 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 watchdog/0
        5 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:13.56 migration/1
        6 root      34  19     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.07 ksoftirqd/1
        7 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 watchdog/1
        8 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:04.83 migration/2
        9 root      39  19     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.03 ksoftirqd/2
       10 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 watchdog/2
       11 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:12.10 migration/3
       12 root      35  19     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.02 ksoftirqd/3
       13 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 watchdog/3
       14 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:01.44 events/0

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    Default Re: 1GBps unmetered server good or bad to buy?

    Based on your TOP, your server is barely being utilized. However, if you are receiving timeouts, you are probably running out of bandwidth. If you are using FDC (which I believe that you are), they do not offer true 100Mbps unmetered servers. Rather, they offer 100Mbps ports on your server and the bandwidth is shared. The average server on their 100Mbps ports sees about 10-30Mbps during peak hours (8:00am - 8:00pm CST GMT-6) and 50-80Mbps off-peak (8:00pm-8:00am CST GMT-6). If you have a lot of visitors accessing your server, it is likely that you are running out of available bandwidth to handle your traffic, hence the timeouts.

    Upgrading to a 1Gbps unmetered port will help. However, note that FDC has tiers at the 1Gbps port level. True bandwidth can range from 100Mbps to 1Gbps depending on which level you get.
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