Server stress!
 

I have had a few people ask me about how much stress a server can handle. Well I decided to run a little test of my own to see just how much stress our server can handle. This should put to rest all of those theory's about how much bandwidth a server can handle ect. My proxy website transfered 3GB of bandwidth today and put a medium load on the server for quite a few hours. We didn't push much bandwidth but we had over over 240k page views. Lets take a look at some of the graphs.

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Load

Bandwidth

Awstats 1

Awstats 2


So as you can see even though we only had 918 visits we served over 240k page views. But we only transfered 3gb of data. To answer all of the home webserver questions that I get. In theory it could probably be run off of a 1.1mbps SDSL line with no problems.

Update 3-23-06 Today it transfered 387k pages and over 5GB of bandwidth. Its getting very popular.

Soulwatcher

That is nice to know since a lot of people including me did not know how much our servers can handle. 240,000 pages will still not using up the processor and only 3gb of bandwidth.

I don't know if the web server is compressing files, but if not, compressing files can save more bandwidth. There is a huge difference between compressing and not compressing.

Right now its not compressing files. I am selling the proxy website, soon my server will be back to normal. :)

Apache1.x does not have this mod on default, but the default installation of Apache2.x has the mod as a standard feature, so all you have to do is to enable it. It's very easy.