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  1. #1
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    What Port Speed Will They Use

    If we offer our customers a 2,000 GB bandwidth monthly, what port speed are they actually going to be using 2 - 4 Mbps or higher?

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    Are you asking what they will use on the 95th?

    If you use 6mbps (avg, not 95th), thats about 2,000GB a month. However, most customers don't use that much bandwidth. It definitely depends on what type of customer your targeting.

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    It varies. Some customers have very high spikes and very low traffic times while others are more spread out. Depending on the content or target time zone, the spikes will happen at different times, so the more and more varied servers you have, the more your graph should even out.
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    what i think you need to determine is a proper system to track transfer.
    The PORT SPEED is really not the deciding factor.

    I'm going to use a PLUMBING as the analogy.

    The PORT SPEED is the SIZE of the PIPE at your faucet.

    The TRANSFER is the TOTAL AMOUNT of water that you pushed thru the FAUCET.

    So, you need to be able to COUNT how much water has come through your faucet.

    If you have amble bandwidth, offer a 10Mbps Connection or better. 100Mbps is pretty standard now adays.

    I guess you need to figure that if your customer blows through their TRANSFER LIMIT, you will be making money on every Bit Of Data that transfers over their usage.. and you bill them.

    Hope I helped you understand.

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    Have planned on stopping them at 2000GB if yes then how or bill them for overage. Otherwise we have recently seen an example of island datacenter being blown up by just 1 customer and forcing them to shutdown. Its a very risky game of averages.
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    Port speed means nothing in terms of 2tb/month bw.
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    @TorrentPlace:

    I went back through your posts and they tell an interesting story:

    (1) "Minimum Upload Speed To Run A Web Server"
    (2) "T1 Connection to Run a Web Server"
    (3) "How Much Does It Vost to Build A Data Center"
    (4) "Our Data Center Infrastructure Planning"
    (5) "Whats A Good Place In United States To Start A Data Center"
    (6) "Bandwidth Provider Needed"
    (7) "Is This a Good Server Processor"
    (8) "Software To Monitor Multiple Servers"
    (9) "Is This A Good Server Processor"
    (10) "What Does it Take to be a DC"
    (11) "How to Limit Bandwidth Usage On A Server"
    (12) "Which Network Switch Do we Need"
    (13) "Looking for Phone Sales Center"
    (14) "Monitoring Dedicated Server Tool"
    (15) "Cisco Switch + Flash Memory"
    (16) "Is This a Good Network Switch?"
    (17) "Temprature In Data Center?"
    (18) "How Much Power Will 20 Servers Use?"
    (19) "How Much To Charge For A Server"
    (20) "How Much To Charge For Intel Xeon Server"
    (21) "How To Have Internet Connection On A Switch"
    (22) "Monitor Bandwidth On A Server"
    (23) "Monitoring Server Performance"
    (24) "Cacti Installation Problem"
    (25) "What Is The Best Cisco Switch"
    (26) "Where To Buy Cisco Switch?"
    (27) 'What Is The Best Cisco Router?"
    (28) "Where To Buy Cisco Switch?"
    (29) "For Sale Cisco 2950G Switch 24 Port EI"
    (30) "What Is The Best Cisco Switch"
    (31) "Is This A Good Cisco Switch?"
    (32) 'What You Think About Cisco 3750 48 TS-E Switch?"
    (33) "How Much Would You Pay For This Dedicated Server"
    (34) "Is This A Good Choice For Router And Switch"
    (35) "Question About IP Addresses"
    (36) "What Port Speed Will They Use" *NEW*

    you really, really need a business / technical consultant.

    To answer your question, ports speeds are either 10Mbit/s 100Mbit/s or 1000Mbit/s however, you need some way of managing bandwidth with that being said a 2000GB allocation means that a customer could in theory use 6Mbit/s 24/7 however, real internet traffic tends to be bursty in nature so there will be peaks and valleys which means spikes at higher levels of utilization than 10Mbps for short periods of time. Therefore, a safe bet would be to hard-limit the ports to 10Mbit/s and use rate-limiting to control the abusers. However, based on what I've been able to gather from your previous posts, your total connection to the Internet is going to be 10Mbit/s so offering 2000GB per month for a single box would be an allocation of 2/3rd of your total bandwidth capacity and if my memory services me correctly you are planning to put 20 such servers in your "data center".
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    Just run it all using 56k modems, then you'll limit them to under 2TB a month

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    Port speed they will normally want 100Mbps
    and they will do about 6Mbps 95%lie on that over a month.
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    6Mbps is much too low for 2TB. Their traffic would have to be completely flat to stay that low unless they have a lot of inbound traffic. You're likely to see 95ths closer to around 10Mbps.

    If the uplink only has a capacity of 10Mbps, you could run into congestion problems with only 2 customers with 2TB allotments, if they both use their alloted bandwidth.

    I'd also highly recommend reading through all of this thread before proceeding with your business plan:
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    Quote Originally Posted by jpwjpw View Post
    Just run it all using 56k modems, then you'll limit them to under 2TB a month
    lol could'nt use a better suggestion.
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    Well, depends. Maybe for a low profile (< 500 Mb of bandwidth/month) you can use 10 Mbits. If they use more than 500 Mb should use more. We have idc here (Brazil) that give to you 10, 15, 20 Mbits... and grow as you need (100Mbit port). Should have this service in your idc too. Just ask them.

    We use this. Starts with 20 Mbits and grow as needed (we upgrade when reaches 70% of 20 Mbits)

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