max bandwidth consumption of php/mysql 1.7 server?

deras · 10-23-2003, 12:14 PM

p4 1.8 512mb ram ide drive
or
athlon 1700 512mb ram ide drive

if a site is entirely php/mysql like a forum (in my case its a bunch of test scripts and user profile pages), what do you think is the max bandwidth it could consume with the above specs per month?

**John Scott** · 10-23-2003, 12:21 PM

I don't think the MySQL/PHP affects bandwidth so much as it affects system resources.

I have only one server with Intel Celeron CPU (300MHz), and 128MB RAM, it has 2sites on it. The sites are getting very good traffic, and all the sites are php/MySQL.

Doing 4GB per day average, and server load is usually under .20

Anthony · 10-23-2003, 02:47 PM

MySQL has no effect on external bandwidth. The information is piped between Apache/PHP and the MySQL server running on that system, which only consumes RAM and CPU resources. It's difficult to say without knowing the amount of traffic you'll be receiving, but I would estimate that it wouldn't be overly large unless you're serving massive page views.

**John Scott** · 10-23-2003, 03:03 PM

www.surebaby.com used to be html. Frontpage, I think. When we changed it over to PHP, the bandwidth dropped like a rock. It now does something like 1/4 of what it was doing, with more total pageviews.

fishfreek · 10-23-2003, 03:10 PM

As everyone said bandwidth would be totally dependant upon the number of pages accessed and the size of each page.

Given the choice of the two sets of specs you list I would go with the one that was cheaper as they are both basicly equivlent.