Bandwith usage

[zkilzz]

I have a dual 3.0ghz xeon with 4 x 15000 rpm scsi disks in raid10 and 4gb 667mhz ram, dedicated.

Servers are not that expensive to lease im just worried that the traffic peak will be pretty hugh. I only have a 8mbit dedicated connection. Its serving 100.000 unique users pr month and using 30% of the capasity. Im kinda worried that i need like a dedicated 50mbit fiberoptic connection to our serverhall to keep the videosite up to date.

[zeffer]

With that traffic you will be good with the dedicated server maybe up the pipeline speed to a 100mb.

[zkilzz]

With that traffic you will be good with the dedicated server maybe up the pipeline speed to a 100mb.

Yes probebly a good idea! Do could you check the transfer rate on your networkcard and report how many online users it was at that time?

That would help me out a great deal.

Example:

9,56MB/S load with 500 online users.

[Philthy]

But if you want a tip from someone who has a successful site that grows rapidly continually update servers as you can afford, we upgraded from shared after we had 50 members then when we hit 500 we got a dedicated then at 1000 we put another gig of ram in and updated to a 100mb pipeline, As of now at 10,000 members we are in the process of gettn the top of the line server (dedicated) with 4gb of ram 2500gb bandwidth a month and 100mb pipeline, this is only so we can have 2 dedicated servers running in a cluster till we get the dns shift sorted then we will run 2x of the top dedicated servers in a cluster on 2 100mb pipelines with 5000gb monthly quota.

By 20,000 members we want 3x dedicated servers running 100mb pipelines in a cluster.

Jeesh !!! You'll break the internet you know :lol:

[mersh]

http://www.highsecurityhosting.com 250 gigs for $3.99/month is overselling.

Ask them how much bandwidth they will give you if you buy a dedicated server from them paying more than $150 per month. Answer will be 2000 GB or some thing like that. This is because that is the price. They sell 250 gigs for $3.99/month only because they know no one is going to use that much. If you do, they will be hosting you at a lose.

So who cares if they are hosting me at a loss?

Yes, they are smart in offering all that bandwidth for $4 a month, because they DO know that 99% of people won't use a fraction of it.

That's WHY it's such a good option for high-bandwidth video sites. You get the low rates that result from them over-selling their bandwidth.

And my experience has been with them, never one second of down time.

[spun2u]

http://www.highsecurityhosting.com 250 gigs for $3.99/month is overselling.

Ask them how much bandwidth they will give you if you buy a dedicated server from them paying more than $150 per month. Answer will be 2000 GB or some thing like that. This is because that is the price. They sell 250 gigs for $3.99/month only because they know no one is going to use that much. If you do, they will be hosting you at a lose.

So who cares if they are hosting me at a loss?

Yes, they are smart in offering all that bandwidth for $4 a month, because they DO know that 99% of people won't use a fraction of it.

That's WHY it's such a good option for high-bandwidth video sites. You get the low rates that result from them over-selling their bandwidth.

And my experience has been with them, never one second of down time.

They'll more than likely pull the plug on a site that appears to be running high bandwidth content. You may get one month using 250gb but more than likely they'll find a reason to boot you off their service after using that much. ;)

[armisoinc]

when they pull plug on you get to me and I'll give you my host
25TB data transfer monthly for just 54$ a month.
LOL

[turtletracker]

My hosting is 5 GB storage and 50 GB transfer per month

Sounds like shared hosting... did you have any trouble setting up the script?

http://highsecurityhosting.com has $3.99/month shared hosting plans that give you 5 gigs of drive space and 250 gigs of bandwidth, but I wonder if there's any way to set up ffmepeg, mencoder, etc...

This place is a knockoff of godaddy....using much of their same site layouts and same packages. I bet they are resellers and buy from godaddy.

[admin]

The site go to - http://www.securepaynet.net

This is godaddy owned domain name. So they must be reselling. Godaddy do not allow mencoder, ffmpeg on shared hosting. With godaddy, only way is to get a VPS or dedicated.

[zkilzz]

Does anyone know what bandwith peaks you get? And how many users?

In an avreage how much speed does 10 users consume?