Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 15:55:29 +0200 From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: Rakhesh Sasidharan <csu96154@cse.iitd.ernet.in>, freebsd-chat <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Hosting an NNTP server Message-ID: <p05100308b71da9e117e6@[194.78.241.123]> In-Reply-To: <15095.62470.978304.686969@guru.mired.org> References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10105081647500.1732-100000@deskar.cse.iitd.ernet.in> <15095.58155.785819.365229@guru.mired.org> <p05100304b71d988f061d@[194.78.241.123]> <15095.62470.978304.686969@guru.mired.org>
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At 8:26 AM -0500 5/8/01, Mike Meyer wrote:
> While we're on the topic of requirements for a feed, the idea of
> running a full feed over a residential-class broadband connection
> seems a bit iffy. It has been nearly a decade since I looked at the
> bandwidth requirements of a full feed, so it may not be as bad as I
> expect.
An absolutely full feed is running over 250GB of traffic per day,
and that would require an average of about 24Mbits/sec bandwidth, and
probably would have frequent peaks to at least 36Mbits/sec bandwidth.
> Brad, what do you think about this?
I don't think you have a snowball's chance in hell of getting
that kind of bandwidth crammed into a residential-class broadband
connection (typically something like 1Mbit/sec down, a few hundred
Kbits/sec up). Even if you had a full Ethernet class (10Mbits/sec)
bandwidth available to you, this still wouldn't be enough.
Moreover, it would take more than a terabyte of disk storage to
spool even just four days worth of news at full volume, and damn,
damn few places in this world can afford that kind of money for disk
space under any circumstances whatsoever.
In fact, I know of only a very few huge commercial USENET news
server operations that have anywhere close to that kind of disk space
-- I could probably count them all on one hand.
--
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
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