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

[geeks at sunhelp.org]

Oh Cool. I didn't realize you were working for the BBC. I'm sure you do have
big bursts of activity.

The overhead/site failover is definately something important for us too.
Sometimes it can be hard to explain the expensive capacity to the executives
who like to cut costs.

btw... I love the BBC programming they bring to the states.

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 2:28 PM
~ To: geeks at sunhelp.org
~ Subject: Re: Gigabit for web servers (WAS )RE: [geeks] Big Blue Smoke
~ 
~ 
~ On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 11:54:55AM -0400, Sridhar the POWERful wrote:
~ > On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Fogg, James wrote:
~ > > So, are you running 40-50 million hits/hour? What entity is this?
~ > It wouldn't necessarily have to be that much.  It could be 
~ high-quality
~ > video, or giant database accesses or something.
~ 
~ Much of that 1.5Gbps was indeed video, and that was an unusually high
~ figure for us.  We normally push something like 550Mbps at our highest
~ point in the day.  But our networks and our server farms are designed
~ to handle unusual events like that, so we need to run with plenty of
~ head-room.  We also, as is good practice, try to engineer things so
~ that either one of our main hosting centres can take the entire load.
~ This was particularly useful when some nasty chaps crashed their plane
~ near Telehouse NY :-)
~ 
~ http://support.bbc.co.uk/support/network/
~ http://support.bbc.co.uk/support/mrtg/internet/
~ 
~ and they're even (mostly) up to date.
~ 
~ -- 
~ David Cantrell | david at cantrell.org.uk | 
~ http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david
~ 
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~   on this first test, no amount of ornamentation or finish 
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