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Abobo
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 Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2004 11:45 pm Post subject: Abyss On a large scale? |
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Hello, I'm thinking of attempting to use Abyss on a large scale site running on a shared 100Mbit connection. I would like to know if Abyss works on large sites. I've used it for a long time as my development platform and then I would upload the files to my hosted server. But now I'm thinking of getting into Colocation and stuff.
I looked at the "Powered by Abyss" section and all those sites seem really small scale, my site will mainly be a download intensive site. Is Abyss bad or good at that sort of thing?
The estimated traffic is
1,000 hits a day
1~2 Terabytes bandwidth per month |
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k1ll3rdr4g0n
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| Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2004 12:39 am Post subject: |
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Im positive it will work, just aslong as you have the bandwith and CPU power to handle all the requests.
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Abobo
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| Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2004 8:36 am Post subject: |
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| k1ll3rdr4g0n wrote: | | Im positive it will work, just aslong as you have the bandwith and CPU power to handle all the requests. |
Great. Because it will really lower my monthly cost if I use Abyss. Because if I was going to use Apache I would need to get Plesk or Cpanel and that costs around $10~$30 a month. |
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amonia
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| Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2004 9:13 pm Post subject: |
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100Mbit - if you really have such connection. You will need very-very fast hard disk. A normal HDD is somewere between 3-15MB/second real speed.
You need something fast. RAID maybe or something like that. |
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Anonymoose
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| Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2004 9:21 pm Post subject: |
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Or not.
100Mbit is a standard LAN connection - do you need a RAID setup to access your LAN ? No. Why ? Because HD speed is measured in megabytes per second not megabits.
100MBits=12.5MB/s if it reaches it's theoretical maximum. That doesn't even cause problems with UDMA 33.
Ever heard the phrase "Better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than open your mouth and prove it" ? |
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amonia
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| Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2004 9:55 pm Post subject: |
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Sorry but is is a standard LAN connection a large scale?
If you realy want large scale - very fast HDD will help.
Anonymoose - try to download 4-5 large files at the same time - you will see
how important is the HDD. |
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Anonymoose
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| Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2004 10:10 pm Post subject: |
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| 1,000 hits per day is not a huge amount of traffic, if it was evenly distributed over 24 hours it would be less than 50 hits an hour. Some of those hits will be from the same user, not all hits will be concurrent etc. There's no denying that for a large scale site a faster HD would be useful, but to say that RAID is required for a single lightweight webserver serving maybe a hundred hits per hour is completely wrong. The bandwidth available even on a UDMA 33 HD is 3x that of the network connection - there is no way the connection can serve faster than the HD can access. |
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