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iobilly

Dec 26 2004, 12:34

Just wondering, how much bandwidth neowin uses for a month on average?

insanekiwi

Dec 26 2004, 12:41

i guess ALOT

-=NoX=-

Dec 26 2004, 12:42

lol

gd question, ask neobond

Got3n™

Dec 26 2004, 12:43

+1TB

Got3n™

Dec 26 2004, 12:48

Redmark says

* Average Monthly Bandwidth Usage : 800Gb
* Highest Badnwidth Usage in a Month : 1400Gb
* mySQL Database Size : 1.2 Gb
* Average Server Load : 2
* Highest Server Load : 50

Search is your friend. http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?show...9&#entry1665359

insanekiwi

Dec 26 2004, 12:49

wow. impressive.

#47

Dec 26 2004, 12:51

Probably more now, cause that was posted in January.

Got3n™

Dec 26 2004, 12:53

::Points to my first post:: im going with 1TB +- couple gigs.

iobilly

Dec 26 2004, 13:08

is neowin on a dedicated server? which hosting provider?

Got3n™

Dec 26 2004, 13:21

its a pentium 266 dedicated machine with 128MB memory in Redmarks room on his Dial up. lol j/k

its a dedicated server from what i understand, and i think its colocated in a datacenter but i could be waaaaay off. lol

trix

Dec 26 2004, 13:26

QUOTE

* Highest Server Load : 50

i've seen alot higher then that!

and its hosted in Theplanet.com DC <-- their brilliant if there to expensive for you go with their sister company ServerMatrix.com (smae dc, just different trading style + prices)

iobilly

Dec 26 2004, 14:16

any neowin mods care to answer my question? haha

traxx

Dec 26 2004, 14:23

i havent posted here before

emo

Dec 26 2004, 14:42

this is some pretty neat info.

Mx²

Dec 26 2004, 14:45

NW uses near 2tb a month. Thats what Neobond said last I think.

youm0nt

Dec 26 2004, 15:00

moved here

Suren

Dec 26 2004, 15:07

Neowin.net has a dedicated server from ThePlanet.com Internet Services, Inc.

Server OS: Linux
Server info: Apache/1.3.33 (Unix) mod_gzip/1.3.26.1a mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4 PHP/4.3.10

neowin.net site IP address: 70.84.250.53
Neowin.net first seen on net: November 2000
Last Server reboot: 7 days ago
Site rank: 2956

this is all I know

iobilly

Dec 26 2004, 16:18

also, neowin uses some kind of caching service, to prevent DDoS (i remember those days...)

2TB? woah! havnt seen any hosting provider giving more than 1600GB bandwidth..

linked

Dec 26 2004, 16:23

Hmm... I thought I saw something in the news about us moving from 1 dedicated to 2 dedicateds, a while back... maybe i'm just crazy, though.

jtchange

Dec 26 2004, 16:28

that's a lot of bandwidth...and to think that it's mainly just images and forum files...not actual people downloading files like programs and stuff...just imagine if neowin had program downloads right off of their server

andy89

Dec 26 2004, 16:36

QUOTE

just imagine if neowin had program downloads right off of their server

i think they do large files coz theres download.neowin.net or somet like that if i recollect correctly, its for stuff like autopatcher.

iobilly

Dec 26 2004, 16:49

hmm makes you wonder what download.microsoft.com's bandwidth statistics are! hahahaha! maybe even cnn.com goes up to 10TB!

lylesback2

Dec 26 2004, 18:52

the server costs.. and neobond doesnt ask for money

but theres money threw advertisements, which firefox users block LOL

PhillWalker2004

Dec 26 2004, 18:57

wow! its amazing just how much one site can use!

It will probably increase during 2005 aswell!!!

How many hits a second do you recon NW gets!? 5000 plus!?

lylesback2

Dec 26 2004, 18:58

QUOTE(PhillWalker2004 @ Dec 26 2004, 13:57)

How many hits a second do you recon NW gets!? 5000 plus!?
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just between the morning hours of 4am and 6am.. 10,000,000 hits a day

Nelsinho

Dec 26 2004, 20:15

QUOTE(Suren @ Dec 26 2004, 12:07)

Neowin.net has a dedicated server from ThePlanet.com Internet Services, Inc.

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thanks for the info

and for the guy is HUGE bandwidth

Coffeee

Dec 26 2004, 23:11

All the Admins and staff do an excellent job here at neowin, and the only pay they get are Adverts (thats i dont block cos i support neowin) and subscriptions which im guessing hardly pays for anything. Well Done Neowin!

G4M3R

Dec 27 2004, 00:50

QUOTE(lylesback2 @ Dec 26 2004, 18:58)

just between the morning hours of 4am and 6am.. 10,000,000 hits a day
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WOW, that is alot

Toastyone

Dec 27 2004, 04:40

QUOTE(Got3n™ @ Dec 26 2004, 08:21)

its a dedicated server from what i understand, and i think its colocated in a datacenter but i could be waaaaay off. lol
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Hardware config
DELL PowerEdge Series Server
2 X 2.0 GHz Xeons /512kb Cache
2 GB Ram
2x 73 GB 10K RPM Ultra 320 SCSI Drives
1200 GB Monthly Transfer

not sure how old this is though

LINK

Bushrat

Dec 28 2004, 13:15

They have two large servers

One is the mysql server

one is the apache ( web server ) This server sends the info to you etc...

There in theplanet.com DC.

I have my server in theplanet...

The planetdc has about 10+gbit connections.

Redmak

Dec 28 2004, 14:08

We're using more than 3000Gb a month atm

Nelsinho

Dec 28 2004, 14:29

^^is huge

Larney

Dec 28 2004, 14:31

QUOTE(Redmak @ Dec 28 2004, 15:08)

We're using more than 3000Gb a month atm
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Whoa, alot. Suppose hosting alot of the avatars and attached images including the large amount of users visiting the website helps to contribute towards that high figure.

Frank

Dec 28 2004, 14:35

QUOTE(iobilly @ Dec 26 2004, 09:18)

2TB? woah! havnt seen any hosting provider giving more than 1600GB bandwidth..
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All of the servers I sell allow 4TB of data transfer. 2TB up, and 2TB down.

QUOTE(Redmak @ Dec 28 2004, 07:08)

We're using more than 3000Gb a month atm
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That is quite a bit of bandwidth.

Markko

Dec 28 2004, 14:39

Sheessh! Thats a lot of bandwidth

Toastyone

Dec 28 2004, 21:22

QUOTE(Redmak @ Dec 28 2004, 09:08)

We're using more than 3000Gb a month atm
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Whoa! It's so high because this is such a great site

Tim Dorr

Dec 29 2004, 20:43

QUOTE(iobilly @ Dec 26 2004, 11:18)

also, neowin uses some kind of caching service, to prevent DDoS (i remember those days...)
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No, we do not. We do have DDOS protection, though.

chorpeac

Dec 29 2004, 20:47

holy cow 3TB a month...wow!

HellBender

Dec 29 2004, 20:51

3TB... Thats more than 1mb every second.

Assuming each visitor gets an average of 300k each hit (I just checked the size of this page), thats about 4 hits per second.

chorpeac

Dec 29 2004, 20:53

uh oh, watch out, someone is crunching numbers??? I feel the tremmors...

Hills420

Dec 29 2004, 20:54

holy snikes that a large number

trix

Dec 30 2004, 01:46

QUOTE

No, we do not. We do have DDOS protection, though.

what sort of DDOS protection?

also Bushrat - i think hey have 21Gbps+ of b/w now

iobilly

Dec 30 2004, 10:23

3TB! holy cow!

Tim Dorr

Dec 30 2004, 16:20

QUOTE(Trix @ Dec 29 2004, 20:46)

what sort of DDOS protection?
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A Cisco Guard XT 5650 http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps5888...cd800fa55e.html

Everyone at ThePlanet is protected by it.

Hurmoth

Dec 30 2004, 16:28

QUOTE(Redmak @ Dec 28 2004, 10:08)

We're using more than 3000Gb a month atm
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3000 Gb ... damn, how much money is that?

At $1/Gb, that's $3000/month

Xtreme $niper

Dec 30 2004, 16:42

Why dont you guys enable GZIP? Doesnt that tone down the bandwidth usage a bit?

flashcore

Dec 30 2004, 16:50

GZIP may cut down on bandwidth usage but you take a huge performance hit when you enable it especialy with as many hits as Neowin gets.

KayMan2K

Dec 30 2004, 16:53

QUOTE(Hurmoth @ Dec 30 2004, 11:28)

3000 Gb ... damn, how much money is that?

At $1/Gb, that's $3000/month

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That is why you should click on the advertisements

kachie

Dec 30 2004, 16:54

WOOOWWW.... THNX A LOT NEOWIN!

f00kie

Dec 30 2004, 16:56

QUOTE(Xtreme $niper @ Dec 30 2004, 11:42)

Why dont you guys enable GZIP? Doesnt that tone down the bandwidth usage a bit?
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Not sure if this is true, but I think I read somewhere the GZip is enabled under PHP.

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