Raydar wrote:As a mater of interest Gary
What sort of bandwidth we using per month, have you worked it out????
Ray,
In terms of actual traffic coming in to here, not a whole lot.
In terms of outgoing traffic, I'm still just using the 256K (outbound) connection, and in monitoring the site through the day I'm not seeing any performance issues, which is suggestive to me that we're still ok in that regard. My stats tell me that, typically, we have no more than about 8 or 10 users on line at any one time, and it's the nature of a board such as this that the traffic generated by, say, 10 concurrent users will be low, because it's mostly text, and mostly while you're reading a page, the traffic transmission has stopped.
With the setup that we have here, I can double that outgoing bandwidth, should I need to, overnight; it's just little more than a DNS setting now.
For the moment we're running on the new server,
btw: A new AMD CPU, (2400), 1GB RAM, 200GB HDD, but still Redhat 9.
The reason I pulled the system down on Monday was to clone the 120GB HDD over to the 200, and then get that disk up and running on the new box.
What I'll probably do over the next week is recommission the old box to act as a secondary server, talking to the SQL on the primary box, but keeping a daily backup of the database on the secondary. That will make any cutover of the DNS totally painless from your perspective. As it happens, I actually switched from the low bandwidth connection to the high, and back again, a couple of weeks ago. I wasn't quite happy with how that worked internally here, which is why I switched it back.
And I still have the new Windows server to bring online ...
Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2004 7:06 am
