I have a pretty lowend server, yet with only 150-200 GB transferred a month, it runs into a lot of trouble handling my network.

How would a server like this ever serve a network that generates 5 times the bandwidth I use?

You could push 1TB if you have alot of large files people could download

They dont want you to use 1TB, thats the whole point, its called overselling. You could use the whole TB though, if your server is re-configured to run at a high load; And possibly some large file transfers.

You can make a P3 800 MHz with 512 RAM serve multiple TB's with ease. If you run something like thttpd (tiny, turbo, throttling http daemon) then system resource usage is nothing. Also people who do shoutcast hosting use a lot of bandwidth with little system resources. These days, software is so optimized that even lower-end servers can use quite large amounts of transfer with no sweat.

Originally posted by RaineTech
You can make a P3 800 MHz with 512 RAM serve multiple TB's with ease. If you run something like thttpd (tiny, turbo, throttling http daemon) then system resource usage is nothing. Also people who do shoutcast hosting use a lot of bandwidth with little system resources. These days, software is so optimized that even lower-end servers can use quite large amounts of transfer with no sweat. Image hosting can easily accomplish that, as you know :). I've seen a Celeron 2.0 with 512MB RAM push around 20Mbps... I'm sure you've seen the graph, as well :D

It's easy, we've had a few clients on Celeron 2.4 and P4 2.4Ghz boxes at Nocster push over 1000GB, but most clients generally don't use up the bandwidth. My P2 350Mhz computer could push 80+Mbps over our internal network for testing, but that computer just died, I'm surprised it lasted for so long.

- Matt

During a on network test, I got a 100Mhz P1, with 32 mb edo ram, and 2 gig hd, sustain 8mbit/second on a 10mbit port for over an hour, buy having one of my other servers on the network wget, deliete, and wget a large file over and over.

If I would have left that on, that would be about 2.5tb/month :P

Doesnt take power to push the data.

Originally posted by CISupport
I have a pretty lowend server, yet with only 150-200 GB transferred a month, it runs into a lot of trouble handling my network.

How would a server like this ever serve a network that generates 5 times the bandwidth I use?

Are you saying that there was TB traffic from a web server back in the year of 1998?

Serving static pages is a much different scenario than serving dynamic (e.g. PHP+MySQL) pages. And for just static pages, consider use thttpd rather than Apache, and surely low end server can push TB traffic.

Originally posted by Joshua
Image hosting can easily accomplish that, as you know :). I've seen a Celeron 2.0 with 512MB RAM push around 20Mbps... I'm sure you've seen the graph, as well :D

Hah joshua. I do indeed remember the box and it actually did struggle a little bit. It had its fair of crashes due to not enough RAM. But you're right, you and I saw the graphs and that's proof enough of what it can do :)