From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 16 14:29:13 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 674731065670 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:29:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from betty.computinginnovations.com (mail.computinginnovations.com [64.81.227.250]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 026B68FC15 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:29:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from p28.computinginnovations.com (dhcp-10-20-30-100.computinginnovations.com [10.20.30.100]) (authenticated bits=0) by betty.computinginnovations.com (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m3GESxoL032859; Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:28:59 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Message-Id: <6.0.0.22.2.20080416092857.02515328@mail.computinginnovations.com> X-Sender: derek@mail.computinginnovations.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.0.22 Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:30:44 -0500 To: John Almberg , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Derek Ragona In-Reply-To: <826F8FC0-C3E6-44D7-BE17-F85481FBDBB3@identry.com> References: <826F8FC0-C3E6-44D7-BE17-F85481FBDBB3@identry.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080416-0, 04/16/2008), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.92.1/6794/Wed Apr 16 06:35:52 2008 on betty.computinginnovations.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-MailScanner-ID: m3GESxoL032859 X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-From: derek@computinginnovations.com X-Spam-Status: No Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Re: Estimating bandwidth requirements for web/mail server X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:29:13 -0000 At 09:20 AM 4/16/2008, John Almberg wrote: >I have a FreeBSD web/mail server in a colocation facility. They offer >many fixed and burstable bandwidth options. I am currently using >512Kbits fixed, which limits data transfer to around 64K up and down, >simultaneously. This works okay at the moment, but I'm wondering how >this will hold up as I add websites to the server. > >Other than empirically measuring load on the box, is there a way to >predict or measure how much bandwidth I need? Any rules of thumb? > >Thanks: John It has more to do with the content you will be serving. You need to look at the pages you will be serving and the hit rate on those pages. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.