Exemplary Server.

P3 1Ghz
512 RAM
Redhat Linux.


If its ONLY Webpages, HTML, and Graphical Images.. what is a good amount of transfer to expect this server to be able to pump out?

I know this subject has already been beaten around,
but is there any way to give a rough idea of what a server like this can handle?
Wether its 200Gigs, or 500Gigs.

I ask, because i find it interesting that companies such as EfreeServers offer 2000Gigs of Bandwidth for a server, but i find it doubtful any server can handle that, no matter what they use the server for.

Thoughts?
I'd appreciate it.

Trevor

Unless your running database applications/queries that are using up total CPU/Memory usage.. (which could effect hardware performance)

It all get's down to the NIC and the bandwidth provided..
- Since the bandwidth is subject to the individual/company..
- I'll just tell you that 1 10/100 NIC on a Switched 10/100 hub can do a maximum of 12.5 mb/s (times that by the number of NIC's you have)

For reference: NIC = Network Interface Card

(there are other connections such as Fiber and Gigabit.. but these are as of yet are not widely/cheaply used)

Please note that the bandwidth is subject to individual/company.. just cause your NIC can pump out 12.5 mb/s doesn't mean your internet connection nor internal network connection can handle it..

But in theory if you pumped out 12.5 mb/s times 60 seconds times 60 minutes times 24 hours times (let's say 30 days) you get

= 30.899048 Terabyte

I wouldn't want to pay that bill.. ;)

Serving static content under Apache (properly configured, of course), that system could serve 6000 GB/month. Running a web server designed specifically for serving static content, probably five times that.

Benchmarks have been run showing 4 processor Xeon boxes serving over 2 Gbps; even if you reduce the Mbps/processor by a factor of ten you'd be looking at TB/month.

We have a dual PIII 1ghz that's doing over 10,000GB/mo with ALL dynamic content.

You should be able to hit at least 1,000GB without ANY slowdown whatsoever, probably more.

Originally posted by Planet Z
We have a dual PIII 1ghz that's doing over 10,000GB/mo with ALL dynamic content.

Now that rather surprises me... I usually dynamic content is more expensive than that. What sort of dynamic content is it?

yeah..
how much ram do you have in that machine?

So im gathering that even with semi-heavy duty programs such as MySQL, and the regular Static Files, like HTML, and Graphics,
a P3 1Gig, with 512Ram should be able to handle at least 500Gigs of transfer
without even the slightest problem.

:D

Originally posted by cperciva


Now that rather surprises me... I usually dynamic content is more expensive than that. What sort of dynamic content is it?

PHP + mySQL, some of it is just basic PHP.

It has 2GB of RAM, all of which is being used.

It's pretty close to its limit.