Check this out, almost 500mbps and 0.29 loads.
 

So couple of monts ago i asked people if its possible for one server to handle a shit load of traffic. Almost all of the people said no. My host told me that it was possible so i just took his word for it.

Looks like my host was right. Check this out.

Almost 500mbps at peek.
http://img74.imageshack.us/img74/439...ger17mn.th.jpg

Load only 0.29.
http://img74.imageshack.us/img74/681...ger23gd.th.jpg

These bloody british bastards knows that they are doing. Not only are they out of the US (no 2257 bullshit), they are fast and they are cheap.

http://ohtele.com/

They have my seal of approval! Check em out. Tell them i send ya and you will get some good deals. ;)

If you're a US citizen, no matter where you host your site(s), you fall under 2257. Hence, a US webmaster cannot host his child porn site outside the US and get away with it.

LOL, well i didnt know that, stupid 2557. :helpme All i know is they are a good host! :thumbsup

server specs?

who cares about cogent!

I actually made a thread about the server as well. Everyone said it was a stupid server, lol

fucking-around-and-business-discussion/576398-heard-supermicro-highend-server.html

Supermicro 1xXeon3.0Ghz
3Gb DDR Ram
2x 74Gb SATA 10krpm drives in hardware raid 0.

Not that impressive. But then I was one of the ones who said that a single server serving up static content could handle that no problem.

I would say that those "almost all" didn't have much clue what they were talking about. How much traffic your server can handle really depends on what kind of data you are serving...

If it's a webserver and there is only static content like images, videos and plain HTML you don't need much hardware to get a couple hundred Mbps, as long as the disks keep up or the server can cache the data in memory.
Hell, I run some boxes acting as fileserver which regularly saturate their gigabit uplinks pushing data around inside a cluster.

From my experience bandwidth doesn't matter much when trying to compare webserver performance. Take a look at how many requests/second and/or concurrent request it can handle - that's where it get's interesting.

I would say doing 500 Mbps isn't that impressive. Doing it with dynamicaly generated content, averaging at a couple thousand requests/sec on the other hand is. :winkwink:

regards,
Markus

Very wise, could'nt have said it better myself :thumbsup

well i dont think it is that fancy to be honest, every good setupped server should be able to do 500 mbit and depending on what you run for software and sites it is possible to get that load indeed

What is that for? P2P?

is that all cogent bandwidth?

Thanks for the heads up on ohtele.com

plain static files?
no mysql, php or ... ?