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
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.
