Gigabit for web servers (WAS )RE: [geeks] Big Blue Smoke

[geeks at sunhelp.org]

I am wondering how you are pushing that much data into the internet.

To place some scale on the picture, my company takes 4-5 million hits per
hour at peak. We fullfill these hits (with no increase in latency from
off-peak) from two datacenters each with a 100mbs feed.

So, are you running 40-50 million hits/hour? What entity is this?

James Fogg, Network Engineer
Vicinity Corporation - New Hampshire
(603) 442-1751

~ -----Original Message-----
~ From: David Cantrell [mailto:david at cantrell.org.uk]
~ Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 9:33 AM
~ To: geeks at sunhelp.org
~ Subject: Re: [geeks] Big Blue Smoke
~ 
~ 
~ On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 07:09:53PM -0400, alex j avriette wrote:
~ 
~ > waaaaait a minute. gigabit ethernet cards? for a webserver? 
~ have you 
~ > been smoking crack??
~ 
~ No.  We were pushing over a gigabit earlier this week.  Now 
~ admittedly,
~ that was the total for all our servers - IIRC it was 1.2Gbps from our
~ London facility and 0.31Gbps from our NY facility - but if we were to
~ use a small number of z800s instead of a large number of Suns, we'd
~ certainly need more than 100Mbps from each.
~ 
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