[NTLUG:Discuss] ntlug.org network usage

[Rick Cook]

On Monday 10 March 2003 21:18, Chris Cox wrote:
>

Not to contradict Chris, however:

> To answer that question, bandwidth usage is EXTREMELY light.  On a heavy
> month, might get into the Megabytes ... but generally... it's very
> light.  In fact, the machine is just a 300Mhz box.  It's approximately
> 4U, but right now it is configured (I believe) as a floor standing
> mid tower.  It's essentially a VARstation (back when VA Linux was
> still doing HW).

We currently have two "good" servers. A 300Mhz one donated by Bynari that is 
currently at thePlanet.com handling the ntlug.org traffic and a 500Mhz 
VARstation donated by VA Linux (at the time) that is sitting in my Library at 
home acting as my occasional x86 play toy (not that I have had any time to 
play lately - and it is really supposed to be a ntlug.org "backup"). Both are 
some type of tower case that wold be 4U if laid on their side.
 
>
>
> So.. 10,000 hits a month... 6M a month is heavy (that's just http
> though).  Occasionally Rick and/or Chris B. (and on some occasions
> me) will transfer some multi-megabyte files around using the server,
> but even so, it's probably not even 100M per month.

Change the M's to G's and the 100 to 10 and that's a closer description of the 
http bandwidth. The smtp and nntp bandwidth (on a total per month basis) seem 
to be in the noise.




Rick