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Originally Posted by Brad Mitchell
I make it a point to stay out of other hosts threads... But you probably need to re-check your facts on this. I don't care if it's super huge movie files only but suggesting that 300Mbps on a P4 with 1G of RAM and a single SATA drive doing the operating system and site serving is absolutely ludicrous - especially to comment anything about "easily" handling that.
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Understood Brad... thanks for the input. When I said a P4 server could "easily" handle that, I meant 100Mbps. Sorry if I wasn't clear.
I wouldn't say that a P4 server with a gigabyte of RAM could "easily" push 300Mbps, but we have seen it before. The specific server that I'm talking about is doing about 240Mbps now, but has bursted to over 300. These are mostly movie download happening, so it's just a few HTTP sessions downloading large files. I believe that the customer is using squid or lighthttpd, so that may help.