Anyone can suggest me, which hosting service is good for :

* dedicated server
* harddisk at least 30 GB
* bandwidth quota at least 400 GBytes/month

I prefer a reliable datacenter because I will use it only for file download server (served using apache 2.0.x) ... and inexpensive :)

What do you think is the most important for file download server? CPU or RAM? ... because if CPU is not so imporant, I may use Celeron instead of Pentium 4.

Thanks,

Addition:

* Linux Redhat 9.0
* Unmanaged
* Without any control panel

Originally posted by kapot

What do you think is the most important for file download server? CPU or RAM?
RAM. If you will be keeping your server free of things that are dynamic and will be serving only static downloads as you suggest, RAM is king. Each download process occupies RAM, and (RAM/process size) is an important number. You should also consider stripping unnecessary modules out of Apache, or whatever webserver software you'll be using. The smaller the process size, the less system resource overhead per download.

I will use it only for file download server

If so then use tiny http since your only serving up static files.

http://www.acme.com/software/thttpd/

Yes, thttpd is nice ... but I cant filter based on user domain name like .htacess on apache. Or blocking some referers (warez) ...

Is there any patch for this ?

Originally posted by pztup
If so then use tiny http since your only serving up static files.

http://www.acme.com/software/thttpd/

If it doesn't, consider a squid proxy (backed by Apache or your main server). I know it has referer checking, since I wrote the patch for it. Even with a thin server process, RAM will be the limiting factor -- mostly TCP buffers.

Originally posted by kapot
Anyone can suggest me, which hosting service is good for :

* dedicated server
* harddisk at least 30 GB
* bandwidth quota at least 400 GBytes/month

I prefer a reliable datacenter because I will use it only for file download server (served using apache 2.0.x) ... and inexpensive :)

What do you think is the most important for file download server? CPU or RAM? ... because if CPU is not so imporant, I may use Celeron instead of Pentium 4.

Thanks,

Ram and the http server you use, thttpd and boa are very very good for static downloads.

Don't use the celeron, the cost difference is so little these days between the celly and a real p4. The bigger l2/l3 cache of the northwood or prescott will make a difference in performance.

I've seen 3G P4's, easily pushing 250Mbs with a load of .3 or under, doing file downloads using thttpd, boa, or tux. For a commercial http server, you cannot beat zeus.