Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 11:52:58 -0600 From: "Scott Gerhardt" <scott@gerhardt-it.com> To: <bv@wjv.com>, "Jeff Lasman" <jblists@nobaloney.net> Cc: "Tom Samplonius" <tom@sdf.com>, <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Solaris vs. FreeBSD in High Traffic Environments Message-ID: <KPEMLBLEMPMHGLJOCDEGIEILDKAA.scott@gerhardt-it.com> In-Reply-To: <20020125065419.GE35812@wjv.com>
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> > > If you do the math you might notice that 500GB a month is about > > what T-1 can do if it runs at full-speed non-stop. > > I think it came to about 480GB when I figured it. We are pricing a > flat-rate band-width limited to 1.5Mbit/second - and showing how it > makes more sense to use a dedicated machine at our site instead of > paying for your own T1, UPS, etc. We've priced it so it is cheaper > for most. And we guarantee that data rate will be available. > Sometimes on your own T1 you don't know if you are part of a FR > and will always get guaranteed bandwidth. > > Last time I checked the data stream was about $450 for 1.5Mb 90% > useage. [about $300Mb]. OT Well a T1 (1.544Mb/s) completely saturated 24/7 would yield 488GB/mo in theory. This would be ok for straignt data transfer such as FTP etc., but in a hosting environment where people are waiting for pages to load this would be unacceptable for the end user during peak times. Web traffic is extremely variable in nature, and burstable vs. total tranfer are two different beasts. I don't imagine that there are too many people surfing at 3:00am. :-) Just my two bits worth. - Scott To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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