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Originally Posted by WiredGuy
For those of you saying that a server would cap out at 100mbps+ on a 1 gig ram cpu, what would happen to the sites hosted on it? Packet loss, dropped connections, server crashes? Too much IO going on between the HD for apache to keep up?
WG
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100mbps on a machine serving static content isn't hard to do.. but yes packet loss on a 100Mbps port would be the problem. figure someone relaly runs around 90-85mbps on the machine so 495/85 = $5.8/Mbps 495/90=$5.5/Mbps so if its HE they are hardly profitable if utilized 100%. but we all know no one uses the pipes 100%, Carrier/isp billing is on the 95th percentile so your 85Mbps of usage is really maybe.. 70Mbps of billable bandwidth now margins go up better. Cogent bills on the 90th percentile so billable usage is even lower.
Some isps will give away bandwidth just to hit/fill commit levels so its not wasted. So they have a small loss leader or break even for a handful of people but the rest of the network thats paying normal prices is where the money is made.