Hi I wish to load 1 page of 10k
it has 15 thumbs at 7k
loading 15 pics at 100k
with 200,000 uniques/day
How many gigs is this please?
Would a Pentium III 1GHz machine with 1gig ram be able to do this?
Thank you for your time

It's too difficult to tell really but I would be more worried about your bandwidth requirements. It should be able to if it's a static HTML page (no PHP or MYSQL) . Don't take my word on it though I could be totally wrong!! ;)

might require the rackshack with the 10mbit or 3000gig plus deal

might require the rackshack with the 10mbit or 3000gig plus deal

Yes it probably will. Just be careful with some of those RS boxes because some can only take 512mb RAM.

Hi I wish to load 1 page of 10k
it has 15 thumbs at 7k
loading 15 pics at 100k
with 200,000 uniques/day
How many gigs is this please?
Would a Pentium III 1GHz machine with 1gig ram be able to do this?


1x10k + 15x7k + 15x100k = 1.577M/page

1.577M x 200k = 308GB/day approximately.

The system should be able to handle it (I'd recommend some good SCSI drives)

That's a lot of bandwidth.

rackshack gives you 400GB bandwidth. Is that the only page you are loading?

Originally posted by elmer-fud
Hi I wish to load 1 page of 10k
it has 15 thumbs at 7k
loading 15 pics at 100k
with 200,000 uniques/day
How many gigs is this please?
Would a Pentium III 1GHz machine with 1gig ram be able to do this?
Thank you for your time

I don't think all your visitors will be viewing all those 15 pics... so let's say you will be burning 100gb / day. I'd suggest you go with a 3000gb/month plan and this server you're suggesting.

ok thanks for your time and help it was greatly apreciated

Just make sure you have enough ram in the box to handle the load. That is where some ppl fall short.

still, this will be rather hard to handle on one box. consider renting atleast two good servers and do some load balancing (for example, dns round robin - not that good but still better than nothing), 300GB per day is a lot of bandwidth.... you should consider RAID-0, RAID-1 or RAID-5(if you need a lot of storage)

For this amount of bandwidth, IO may become a bottleneck... U160 SCSI is a plus (or if you implement RAID, select the card with 32MB cache atleast ;))

-apollo

If the only content that's going to be served by this machine is the HTML page plus images (coming to a total of approx 1.5MB), then once that content is cached (in approx 1.5MB of RAM) then the only IO is going to be the Apache and system logging.

I would suggest that the PIII 1GHz/1GB RAM machine would be absolutely fine - even with a single IDE drive.

Of course, having two machines available to handle the load is always good - you get a measure of redundancy should one die on you. Two machines (even two lower-end machines) in two different datacentres is always better than one...

I'd be really interested to know what other providers recommend for hosting low content/high bandwidth sites.

Good luck!

Jason

I am not 100% sure but IDE drive will die very shortly with so heavy IO... and bandwidth requirement. SCSI is the only way to go (maybe even some raid configuration for better read speed)

Hey!

I could very well be wrong (I sometimes am!), but if the total amount of content being served from the box is 1.5MB, then that 1.5MB is going to be cached in memory.

It doesn't matter whether the content is served once or one million times, there's no disk IO involved with the content once it's cached in RAM. Granted, you'd need to tune Apache, though.

So the only real disk IO would be Apache logging. Given that every one of the 200,000 uniques grabs all 31 files on offer, and each access generates a log line of 100 bytes, that's only approx 600MB of logging per day. And 600MB/day is certainly not beyond IDE.

Perhaps if it were 600MB/minute I'd agree with you on the SCSI call :D


Jason

just wondering what kind of web site it is ?.

is it adult content web site. :)