Hi,
I would like to know approximatly how much load would a site pushing 200-220gb of bandwith by month put on a P3 1ghz/512mb ram/7200rpm hd server.

I would like to know if it would take one quarter or half of the server resources ? Will I be able to put other sites on this server ?

The bandwidth is mostly 5 to 10mb file downloads.

Would it put less load on the server if the files were downloaded from ftp instead of http ?

Thanks for your help. :D

i think it would be alright

if needed you could just upgrade the ram

The load should be minium. I had a Celeron 800 with 128 MB pushing 5 Gb a day, and the loads are always 0.0. I was using proftpd.

I don't have the technical details, but I would imagine that ftp would be more economical. (no extra libraray, shared objects, etc)

The main problem that would prevent you from adding additional sites is not the server resources, but rather your network bandwidth. The downloads don't take up much RAM/CPU, but they certainly do take up lots of bandwidth.

Peter

Thanks for your help guys.

I still have another question:

The site in question belongs to a client of mine. It's a humoristic site wich features clips from various humoristic TV shows. The clips are about 2 to 3min long. Is it legal to host them ?

I think it is since it's not the whole show.

What do you think ?

Originally posted by illogix
Thanks for your help guys.

I still have another question:

The site in question belongs to a client of mine. It's a humoristic site wich features clips from various humoristic TV shows. The clips are about 2 to 3min long. Is it legal to host them ?

I think it is since it's not the whole show.

What do you think ?

Nope.

US Copyright law does have Fair Use provisions, but those are pretty strict. Just because it's a clip from a show, and not the entire show does not negate the copyright.

Your customer needs to talk to an experienced copyright attorney, familiar with Fair Use, and the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, before planning to offer copyrighted materials for download.

The Act does not require that service providers obtain proof of copyright or permission for usage before allowing files to be uploaded, but if you get a notification that a violation has occured, your responsibilities are spelled out in the Act.

OK, thanks.

But we are based in Canada and the TV shows are from Canada too. Is it the same thing in Canada ?

The Canadian laws covering copyright have different names (i.e. Fair use is called Fair dealing), but the details are pretty much the same in all copyright legislation.

Use of copyrighted materials without permission from the holder of the copyright, except where allowed by law is a violation of the law.

Period.

Your customer needs to consult an attorney familiar with copyright laws before proceeding with this project.

Thanks for your help. I'll ask him to do that.

Have a nice day.