How much bandwidth do I need? (4)
Hey,
I'm new to pop traffic, just started to set everything up.
I have;
Spytool (Adplexity)
Traffic source (Propellerads)
Campaigns (Direct with advertiser)
My question is; How much bandwidth do I need for my server?
I just ordered a dedicated server yesterday, 84$/month.
I think that sounds like a lot when I'm a newbie, and just getting started!
My current servers features;
CPU : Xeon E3-1240 v34 Cores x 3.4 GHz
RAM : 8 GB DDR3
HARD DRIVE : 1 TB
BANDWIDTH : 100 TB
I consider moving to a VPS, price is 30$/month,
A full range of features at a stunning low price. Softaculous, WHMCS and cPanel options available.
1 GB (+1 GB burst)
1 CPU core
30 GB HDD (SAS RAID10)
250 GB bandwidth
What do you guys think? Open for all the help I can get 
//Frederik
I don't understand one thing man, this is the third thread that you are asking the same thing in. I even asked our hosting specialist to answer your question and help you, and he wrote a pretty detailed reply for you here : http://stmforum.com/forum/showthread...l=1#post292739
And still, you ignore all the advice given and order a dedicated server that is way more than you need now.
I know that you are excited about the start, hell I was too, but why are you asking for advice when you ignore it later on? 
But anyways, let me try once again.
You don't need a dedicated server when starting out. Pick a cloud solution that is easily scalable in case it's needed. BW is so cheap these days, that nobody really cares about it all that much anymore, certainly not when hosting landing pages that are a KBs each.
100TB BW per month I guess, thats 3.3 TB or 3400 GB a day ... even if you use LPs that are 1MB - which is already too much for mobile pops - you could load the LP 3.500.000 times a day ... the server would melt at that volume.
You won't be buying more than 100.000 pops per any time soon, so using the 1MB example, thats 100.000MB/1024=97GB per day - thats the BW you need.
That 1GB server is probably calculated an uncapped 1Gbit/s line which equals to 0.125 Gbyte per second * 60 = 7.5 Gbytes per minute * 60 = 450 Gbytes per hour * 24 = 10 800 GB per day which would be even more than in the first case, so Im not sure what 1GB means in this case.
Pick some basic package now, but make sure it's easy to scale it up in case you need it.
Even though Matuloo has answered the topic, regarding physical servers I wanted to add the following.
Before investing any kind of budget in servers it is the case to consider purchasing 2.5inch vs. 3.5inch SAS hard drives (the 2.5inch outperforms 3.5inch HDD on same RPM - if not budged for SSD) and to that double check the storage controller capacity and flashback write cache to avoid performance bottlenecks.
Matuloo's right on the nose - but there's one thing I wanted to mention.
He talks about loading a lander 3.5 million times a day. That might sound like a lot.
FYI, if you hire a decent server guy, you can easily serve more than 10,000,000 lander hits a day - yes, even with multiple images on the lander - from a 4Gb Digital Ocean VPS at $20 / month. I've done it. And a dedicated server can do many multiples of that.
If you're using a cloud solution as Matuloo suggests, you can serve an almost infinite number of visitors.
Basically, go with AWS / S3, don't worry about it, learn other stuff instead.
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