i am about to buy another dedicated server but i have got bigger
so which one is better for me do you think a server with a set say 400gb per month or a server with a 10mbps line and some please tell me the best way to go ie how much bandwith a full use could i get out of a 10mbps line

10mbit = 3200 GB in theory but I am pretty sure you can't push that much :) ....

Lot of other, more important factors to consider, if you're making a comparison between two different networks. A full 10 Mbps line is more than any single server really will need (yes, probably a few odd exceptions to that rule). I'd say, one in a hundred servers even come close to eating up the 400GB that you'll see offered from companies like Rackshack.

thanks but if i have 60 customer on there each using 30gb each if they used it all 60x30gb i guess it would be better to get a 10mbps line instead of a set bandwidth limit like 1000gb that you can get at rackshack

If you can put more servers on the 10mbit link, get that

If it is only going to be one server on the 10mbit, i would prefer to get the 400gb since it would likely be burstable which would make the connection faster

Originally posted by 7thdesire
thanks but if i have 60 customer on there each using 30gb each if they used it all 60x30gb i guess it would be better to get a 10mbps line instead of a set bandwidth limit like 1000gb that you can get at rackshack

I couldn't really imagine putting those customers all on the same server.

I could easily. Just because they use bandwidth doesn't mean they're server intensive. And 30gb is nothing. I have 10 sites on one server that do 30gb a day each. Also rackshack servers are capped at 10mbit anyway so its not like you would get any burstability.

If you could easily, then I doubt you've dealt with a lot of accounts that push that type of traffic.

"I have 10 sites on one server that do 30gb a day each"

I do 5 TB a month in bandwidth. I know what I'm talking about.

lol, ten maybe on a nice server, but sixty.... yea.

He has 60 customers that do 30gb a month not per day.

I'm not sure what your point is?

it depend. If you know you will use that much of bandwidth then get the 10mps line. I have a client that use 1000 gigs of bandwidth in 2weeks.

>Also rackshack servers are capped at 10mbit anyway so its not >like you would get any burstability.

400GB and 1000GB packages from rackshack are at 100Mbit.

Please have someone from rackshack confirm this. I have 6 400gb rackshack servers and I have never got more than 10mbit of throughput through them.

Yep.. we use high quality machines, and max out at around 200GB/month per machine. We cap our machines before they become too overloaded though... and we use high quality stuff (SCSI! heh)..

Go for the cheaper one at RS. From what I understand you can buy 4 of the cheaper servers for what 1 of the 10MBbps servers cost. Well... it would be much better to split the sites across 4 servers IMHO.