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Old 01-27-2011 , 14:30   Re: Downtime Over
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Question for bandwidth gurus. Here's our stats for last month:

* Out: 830GB, 2.6mbps avg, 7mbps peak.
* In: 176GB, 538mbps avg, 1.1mbps peak.
* Total: ~1TB, 3mbps avg, 8mbps peak.
* At ThePlanet, in 2007, we had to upgrade to 100mbit because the site was too slow on 10mbit. We were using about 700GB/mo then.

If we *had* to pay per-1mbps, on a 95% percentile, what do you think would make sense for us?
It's hard to tell with just peak and ave. Doing some obscene math on total:
5% of the month is only 36 hours. Over 30 days you can move 759GB at 3mbps. That leaves 265GB, which if it all moved at 8mbps, would take 94 hours; you would still be billed at 8mbps. If we assume a ave for peak data of 6 mbps, then it would take 126 hours; you would be billed at 6mpbs.

Seeing the bandwidth graph I think will help understanding if 95% is appropriate; even better would be to analyze the bandwidth log. I also suspect the 'peak' is the highest 5 minute average for the month.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burstable_billing
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Old 01-27-2011 , 15:55   Re: Downtime Over
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Also 10MB pipe!? No way this site could survive on a 10mb pipe. I use a 100mb net card to 10gb/s pipe just for my game servers. There is no way a site with this amount of traffic while also having multiple downloads and uploads of large files could survive on a 10mb pipe.
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Old 01-27-2011 , 16:59   Re: Downtime Over
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Wait, where are you hosted now if you don't mind me asking Bail?

Are you saying that your on a 10mbit connection right now?

Is there a specific reason you left The Planet?
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Old 01-27-2011 , 17:19   Re: Downtime Over
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Wait, where are you hosted now if you don't mind me asking Bail?
Softlayer it seems.
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Are you saying that your on a 10mbit connection right now?
No, can't be. Downloading from this site goes with at least 3.5 MByte/s.
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Is there a specific reason you left The Planet?
http://forums.alliedmods.net/showthr...368#post633368
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Old 01-27-2011 , 17:43   Re: Downtime Over
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We have a 100mbit connection right now.

LumiStance, thank you for the helpful analysis.
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Old 01-27-2011 , 19:52   Re: Downtime Over
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Sorry for the confusion I was not saying they have a 10mb pipe I was referencing this post:
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You can do co-location hosting on hardware (get hardware donated) and make deals for unlimited bandwidth. A 10MB pipe sometimes comes with unlimited bandwidth. Sounds like no one is doing daily backups of the forums and with the cpanel bust (we got hit too), your restore lacked. Maybe it's time that a web hosting company hosts you for free and they can do the backups for you. This'll take the worry of time/money. You can find someone to sponsor you.

You get $50/month from advertising and over $200/month in donations. I fail to see how you're not able to financially put this place together. That's an honest analysis. We run on $100/month for web hosting only with no bandwidth limitations. Your business model needs tweaked.

Otto
Also I wanted to add that ironically the planet and softlayer are the same company now. However clearly it is softlayer that is controlling everything. I also use softlayer for my game servers and I have been really happy with them!
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Old 01-27-2011 , 20:22   Re: Downtime Over
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Is there a problem with the 3000gb that Softlayer currently offers on most (if not all) servers? The datacenter probably mixes bandwidth from multiple providers and this lets you have spikes in traffic without your line getting flooded (what you probably had issues with on the 10mbps port).
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Old 01-27-2011 , 21:09   Re: Downtime Over
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We are having no problems with bandwidth at the moment. It's only an issue if we try to find a new provider with stricter pricing.
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Old 01-27-2011 , 21:12   Re: Downtime Over
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(what you probably had issues with on the 10mbps port).
When did anyone say that they ever had a 10mbps line!?

Also to answer your question I am not aware of anyone that has had problems with bandwidth on softlayer.
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Old 01-27-2011 , 21:21   Re: Downtime Over
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When did anyone say that they ever had a 10mbps line!?
BAILOPAN did (at ThePlanet).
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