What kind of connection do I need to host?

[mixmastermike]

Hi! I'm involved with a college newspaper, and we are looking into possibly hosting in house.

If we get around 100000 page views an hour, and our pages are around 90k each, what kind of connection should we get? Is a 1.5mbps SDSL going to be fast enough? Know anything about the costs?

Thanks!

Michael

 

[amdskip]

The real thing you need to worry about the realiability of your line provider and if they allow something like this because you will be using quite the amount of bandwith.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Speed of the line would be 3rd or 4th on my list of things to worry about. Redundancy, security, etc should be earlier on the list. Do you have a secure location? Do you have a sufficient UPS and generator? Do you have someone to monitor the status of the servers and network connections 24/7? Do you have a sufficiently powerful server? Do you have replacement parts? Do you have an admin that knows what he is doing? Can you get redundant connections to a couple of ISPs? Can you get one connection to be different enough from the other so that if your phone lines were cut you would still be connected?



Someone can double check my math (its late and this stuff makes my head hurt):
> 1.5mbps * 1024
1536kbps
> 1536kbps/8
192kBps
> 192kBps/90kbyte
~2.13333333333333333333

~2.13 pages per second.

> 2.13*60
127.8
> 127.8*60
7668
7668 pages per hour?

I could be waaaaaaaay off though...

 

[Garion]

Just remember that the 1.5Mb/s of a T1 is raw throughput and you need to include protocol overhead. I usually include about 10% on top of the actual data. In this case, it would make each page about 100K of raw data.

- G