[gentoo-user] 10, 100, or 1000mbps uplink?

[gentoo-user] 10, 100, or 1000mbps uplink?

[Grant]

I'm about to sign up for a new remote dedicated system and I'm
wondering if I should spring for the 100mbps or 1000mbps uplink
upgrades from 10mbps?  Is there a test I can run to find out?  I'm
running a lightweight website with maybe 300-400 visitors/day.

- Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] 10, 100, or 1000mbps uplink?

[Neil Walker]

Grant wrote:
> I'm about to sign up for a new remote dedicated system and I'm
> wondering if I should spring for the 100mbps or 1000mbps uplink
> upgrades from 10mbps?  Is there a test I can run to find out?  I'm
> running a lightweight website with maybe 300-400 visitors/day

10Mbps should be fine for that. Actually, most companies provide 100Mbps
as the lowest now. I use RapidSwitch. http://www.neiljw.com is one of
several websites running on a 100Mbps connected server there. It has
coped very well with 10,000+ hits per day.


Be lucky,

Neil

Re: [gentoo-user] 10, 100, or 1000mbps uplink?

[Kyle Bader]

> I'm about to sign up for a new remote dedicated system and I'm
> wondering if I should spring for the 100mbps or 1000mbps uplink
> upgrades from 10mbps?  Is there a test I can run to find out?  I'm
> running a lightweight website with maybe 300-400 visitors/day.

I wouldn't think 10mbps would be a problem unless you are serving lots
of files for downloads.  You can see real time throughput with iptraf
or iftop or setup some netfilter rules to log bandwidth statistics if
you want to gauge your usage exactly.

--

Kyle

Re: [gentoo-user] 10, 100, or 1000mbps uplink?

[Daniel da Veiga]

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 13:48, Grant<emailgrant@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm about to sign up for a new remote dedicated system and I'm
> wondering if I should spring for the 100mbps or 1000mbps uplink
> upgrades from 10mbps?  Is there a test I can run to find out?  I'm
> running a lightweight website with maybe 300-400 visitors/day.
>

Most providers will have some sort of tools to monitor your traffic.
Go for 10Mbps, and if you notice slowdown, or the mentioned tools
report bandwidth problems, upgrade... My guess is 10Mbps is a lot for
300-400 unique hits per day, but if you serve downloads too, then you
may have problems in the future, as Kyle said...

-- 
Daniel da Veiga

Re: [gentoo-user] 10, 100, or 1000mbps uplink?

[Grant]

>> I'm about to sign up for a new remote dedicated system and I'm
>> wondering if I should spring for the 100mbps or 1000mbps uplink
>> upgrades from 10mbps?  Is there a test I can run to find out?  I'm
>> running a lightweight website with maybe 300-400 visitors/day.
>>
>
> Most providers will have some sort of tools to monitor your traffic.
> Go for 10Mbps, and if you notice slowdown, or the mentioned tools
> report bandwidth problems, upgrade... My guess is 10Mbps is a lot for
> 300-400 unique hits per day, but if you serve downloads too, then you
> may have problems in the future, as Kyle said...
>
> --
> Daniel da Veiga

Thanks everyone.  I'll stick with 10mbps.

- Grant