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Originally Posted by abshard
I have an atom server using about 40mbs peak hosting thumbs,load is very low
load average: 0.06, 0.08, 0.06
edit actually 47mbs peak 35mbs 95%
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Well that's just it, for some serving applications something like this will do very well - things like static galleries and large movie files. Bandwidth capability and output in these applications will become more a derivative of the disk speed and available RAM. With today's more average host client where you'll get a fail with any higher usage would be most likely with things that are dynamic (scripts, databases, etc) or any amount of video encoding, perhaps even with too many connections or mixing up varied read and write activity. So, good for some hosting uses but not for others. My more tech point was that one could have the same surprising benefit of low power consumption with a different Intel processor that's still quite cheap with a true multiple on performance/output.
Brad