[geeks] news servers.

[William W. Arnold]

Tim Harrison writes ---
>Is anyone out there running their own news server?  What kind of disk
>space is in use to carry everything?  What kind of bandwidth
>requirements?  What software are you using?
>
>We currently outsource our news service (an A record to someone else's
>news server), and we have to decide within the next week if we want to
>keep it that way, or bring it inhouse.

Question 1)
  Are you talking about a Full newsfeed (including the binaries groups)
If so, I'll go out on a limb and say you can't afford it.  A full feed
is currently running at ~300G/day == ~30megabit/second
  If you just want the Big8+Alt+selected other text groups then it's
no big deal.

I have 14G disk devoted to news, and can keep ~20 days news.

1 Days news is (from the INN report):
Date:  Jul 23               Articles    %Arts Art/sec      Size   %Size  KB/sec
TOTAL: 23:59:58               140370   100.0%    1.62  647.7 MB  100.0%    7.68

Largest single hour that day was:
Jul 23 12:00:00 - 12:59:59      7079     5.0%    1.97   46.9 MB    7.2%   13.34

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