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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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
