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[Trimax]

I was wondering how much transfer does a ircd uses.

Local users: 516 users

Global users: 13005 users

Can anyone give me an estimate amount of transfer does an ircd with such a userload will use up? (Excluding ddos attacks)

Thanks

[reanncw]

It also depends on the ircd used.

[Trimax]

Originally posted by WadeXII
It also depends on the ircd used.

Ok.... But it shouldnt really differ by a lot..

Lets say if it's an ircu (undernet)

[Trimax]

I think I've got my answer


http://www.linode.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=443


EFnet
~100k users
~36 gigs per day *excluding DDoS attacks and all over head* (so this is actually a bit less than what the total amount should come out to be)

Freenode
~13k users
~2 gigs per day *excluding DDoS attacks*

[CS-Stacie]

Hello,

In the meantime you would want to tack on a little more bandwidth for those *warez* networks, even though that can be illegal, but some users insist to operate those types of servers willingly, and prepared for the worst. I noticed in the 5 years of supplying IRCD access all the heavy networks with warez, and file servers, I should say illegal operatives. Use about 40% more bandwidth. Also if the server is not compressed or using some sort of compressing, the bandwidth is dramatically increased about 50%.