Zuni - database / forums question: data transfer per month??

[NikPreviousAcct]

Zuni,
With a forum this size (9GB?) and with this many members, what kinds of transfers do you guys get? In other words, how many MB (gig!?) per month gets transfered between looking at threads, replying, editing, etc.??

Thanks,
Nik

 

[Paulson]

It's obviously more than a gig a month I'm pretty sure...

1500 people (or more) accessing daily will get you over that gig per month basis...

I doubt he'll disclose such information though... (don't think he can)

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Hmm. So... more than a MB then??

Okay, so why couldn't Zuni disclose that info????

nik

 

[Paulson]

It's against company policy?

I have no idea... if I do remember correctly, he's declined to tell that specific stat before...

Never know though...

 

[DaiShan]

As a comparison Icrontic.com moves about 500gigs a month, they claim to get around 100k hits a day (I know them in person) So Anandtech is quite a bit larger than that, and I have read that before fusetalk they were moving 35 megs a second or so constantly, fusetalk brought it down, but with membership up...?

 

[narzy]

few months ago it was around 35mbits/s sustained. don't know what it is now.

 

[Paulson]

Damn, zuni did a posting spree but didn't answer this one

It'd be cool if they had statistics we could see like at my forum

 

[Jason Clark]

nah it wasnt 35 mbit/s its was about 25 or so, down now with some compression stuff and traffic shaping, under 15 I think but not sure.

I'm responding sporatically because I just got out of the hospital so I do it when i have a sec to sit down. Appendix was taken out, yay.

 

[Paulson]

Sorry to hear about your appendix Jason

At least it was taken out before anything major happened... and hey, look at it this way, you can still do your job pretty easily

Glad to hear you're alright though man...

 

[bluemax]

Any idea how many page "views" that might equate to?

 

[Jason Clark]

I believe for August we were some where around 2600 GB data transfered, hits is a poor way to measure as it includes graphics, js files, html etc..

100K hits per day isn't all that much, fairly low actually. A single web server could throw that out without breaking a sweat.

 

[Rallispec]

Originally posted by: Zuni
I believe for August we were some where around 2600 GB data transfered, hits is a poor way to measure as it includes graphics, js files, html etc..

100K hits per day isn't all that much, fairly low actually. A single web server could throw that out without breaking a sweat.

2600GB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!

thats a lot.


anyways, if its anything like php, it counts a page veiw each time a person refreshes the page or loads a new topic. So even on my small forums, i get a couple thousand 'views' or 'hits' a day..

 

[Ryan]

Originally posted by: Zuni
I believe for August we were some where around 2600 GB data transfered.

Holy JEEEEBUS! :Q

 

[wurmyhi]

That's a lot of data to push out a pipe, and expensive too...

 

[Red Squirrel]

Wow that's quite a lot! I suppose they have their own server and don't use hosting. Must be expensive. I used to run my own win98 server (yeah, crap) and I transferred about a gig per month. Though it could take more as it survived a few SMTP DoS attacks. It's too bad ISP's don't allow servers though, it would make things like this so much cheaper lol.

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: RedSquirrel
Wow that's quite a lot! I suppose they have their own server and don't use hosting. Must be expensive. I used to run my own win98 server (yeah, crap) and I transferred about a gig per month. Though it could take more as it survived a few SMTP DoS attacks. It's too bad ISP's don't allow servers though, it would make things like this so much cheaper lol.

WTF? Windows 98 for a server? Talk about a recipe for instability and hackability. :Q

Things like this, you mean the forums? No freaking way an ISP would let you do 2.6K gigs per month on a home connection.

 

[Eli]

:Q

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Wow, almost 100GB/day. 4 GB/hour, 1GB/15mins, 66MB/min, 1MB/sec. Roughly. 1MB/sec is 8mbit/sec, I guess the 15 quoted is when it's a little busier during the day.

 

[Sunner]

Since we're talking about impressive numbers, I just thought I'd throw in another rather impressive figure I saw in an article over at El Reg, regarding EBay.

The biggest day in 2002 saw 626 million page views, 79 million searches, and 7.7 million bids. As Whitman evangelised: "At peak periods, eBay's technology infrastructure handles 4.5 gigabits a second of dynamic, real-time data - the equivalent of transmitting all the information in the Library of Congress every six hours." No matter what way you look at it, that is impressive.

Here's the article in case anyone's interested.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

4.5 gigabits a second of dynamic, real-time data

:Q