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I'm setting up HTTP load balancers for Tomcat servers. I'm looking at a few different VPS plans that the load balancer will run on. I assume the load balancer would use very small amounts of traffic? If a website gets about 4 Million visits a month, how much bandwidth can I expect the load balancer to use?
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I'm setting up HTTP load balancers for Tomcat servers. I'm looking at a few different VPS plans that the load balancer will run on. I assume the load balancer would use very small amounts of traffic? If a website gets about 4 Million visits a month, how much bandwidth can I expect the load balancer to use?
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I'm setting up HTTP load balancers for Tomcat servers. I'm looking at a few different VPS plans that the load balancer will run on. I assume the load balancer would use very small amounts of traffic? If a website gets about 4 Million visits a month, how much bandwidth can I expect the load balancer to use?
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I'm setting up HTTP load balancers for Tomcat servers. I'm looking at a few different VPS plans that the load balancer will run on. I assume the load balancer would use very small amounts of traffic? If a website gets about 4 Million visits a month, how much bandwidth can I expect the load balancer to use?
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Depends on the size of the request, whether direct server return is in use, and a dozen other variables.
Do capacity planning yourself. Observe your real traffic to get an idea of request size, and multiply it by your number of requests estimate. Have a procedure to upgrade capacity or switch providers, if you exceed your provider's limits or your budget.
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Actually load balancer will probably consume most of your traffic in the system.
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Like others have mentioned. It depends. Since you specifically mention HTTP load balancing then the load balancer will serve 100% of those 4 million visits.
How much bandwith is 4 million visits? You need to measure yourself from your own code. But let's try to do some back-of-the-envelope calculations:
What is a visit? Is it a "hit" or a "unique visit"?
If it's a hit then it's simple. We just use the 4 million number as the number of requests.
If it's a unique visit then how I do it is take an average experience to do the main task of the website (for example to book a place for Airbnb, to book a ride for Uber etc.). Let's say user go to landing page -> search result -> browse a couple of pages -> select item -> book item -- that's 5 pages. So the number of requests is 4 million * 5 = 20 million requests.
Now you need to guesstimate how big each page is. Most of the projects I work with average around 1MB per page so let's go with that. Assuming an average page size of 1MB (including all ajax requests, images etc) the estimated outgoing bandwidth is:
1MB * 20 million = 20 Terabytes per month
Which is a very, very busy site. That's almost Google's search bandwidth usage per year as estimated at around 2009 (around 24TB / year).
OK. Let's say the 4 million is "hits":
1MB * 4 million = 4 Terabytes per month
Still a very respectable web service. I don't know.. probably on the scale of Twitter?
answered 5 mins ago
slebetmanslebetman
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Note: I've worked for very successful and profitable web services that can only manage around 10 requests / second max. So you don't really need a lot of bandwidth to run a typical web service like JIRA or Github
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Depends on the size of the request, whether direct server return is in use, and a dozen other variables.
Do capacity planning yourself. Observe your real traffic to get an idea of request size, and multiply it by your number of requests estimate. Have a procedure to upgrade capacity or switch providers, if you exceed your provider's limits or your budget.
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John MahowaldJohn Mahowald
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Depends on the size of the request, whether direct server return is in use, and a dozen other variables.
Do capacity planning yourself. Observe your real traffic to get an idea of request size, and multiply it by your number of requests estimate. Have a procedure to upgrade capacity or switch providers, if you exceed your provider's limits or your budget.
answered 2 hours ago
John MahowaldJohn Mahowald
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Depends on the size of the request, whether direct server return is in use, and a dozen other variables.
Do capacity planning yourself. Observe your real traffic to get an idea of request size, and multiply it by your number of requests estimate. Have a procedure to upgrade capacity or switch providers, if you exceed your provider's limits or your budget.
answered 2 hours ago
John MahowaldJohn Mahowald
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Depends on the size of the request, whether direct server return is in use, and a dozen other variables.
Do capacity planning yourself. Observe your real traffic to get an idea of request size, and multiply it by your number of requests estimate. Have a procedure to upgrade capacity or switch providers, if you exceed your provider's limits or your budget.
answered 2 hours ago
John MahowaldJohn Mahowald
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John MahowaldJohn Mahowald
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John MahowaldJohn Mahowald
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Actually load balancer will probably consume most of your traffic in the system.
answered 2 hours ago
Martynas SaintMartynas Saint
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Actually load balancer will probably consume most of your traffic in the system.
answered 2 hours ago
Martynas SaintMartynas Saint
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Actually load balancer will probably consume most of your traffic in the system.
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Martynas SaintMartynas Saint
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Actually load balancer will probably consume most of your traffic in the system.
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Martynas SaintMartynas Saint
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Martynas SaintMartynas Saint
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Martynas SaintMartynas Saint
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Like others have mentioned. It depends. Since you specifically mention HTTP load balancing then the load balancer will serve 100% of those 4 million visits.
How much bandwith is 4 million visits? You need to measure yourself from your own code. But let's try to do some back-of-the-envelope calculations:
What is a visit? Is it a "hit" or a "unique visit"?
If it's a hit then it's simple. We just use the 4 million number as the number of requests.
If it's a unique visit then how I do it is take an average experience to do the main task of the website (for example to book a place for Airbnb, to book a ride for Uber etc.). Let's say user go to landing page -> search result -> browse a couple of pages -> select item -> book item -- that's 5 pages. So the number of requests is 4 million * 5 = 20 million requests.
Now you need to guesstimate how big each page is. Most of the projects I work with average around 1MB per page so let's go with that. Assuming an average page size of 1MB (including all ajax requests, images etc) the estimated outgoing bandwidth is:
1MB * 20 million = 20 Terabytes per month
Which is a very, very busy site. That's almost Google's search bandwidth usage per year as estimated at around 2009 (around 24TB / year).
OK. Let's say the 4 million is "hits":
1MB * 4 million = 4 Terabytes per month
Still a very respectable web service. I don't know.. probably on the scale of Twitter?
answered 5 mins ago
slebetmanslebetman
1135
Note: I've worked for very successful and profitable web services that can only manage around 10 requests / second max. So you don't really need a lot of bandwidth to run a typical web service like JIRA or Github
– slebetman
3 mins ago
add a comment |
Like others have mentioned. It depends. Since you specifically mention HTTP load balancing then the load balancer will serve 100% of those 4 million visits.
How much bandwith is 4 million visits? You need to measure yourself from your own code. But let's try to do some back-of-the-envelope calculations:
What is a visit? Is it a "hit" or a "unique visit"?
If it's a hit then it's simple. We just use the 4 million number as the number of requests.
If it's a unique visit then how I do it is take an average experience to do the main task of the website (for example to book a place for Airbnb, to book a ride for Uber etc.). Let's say user go to landing page -> search result -> browse a couple of pages -> select item -> book item -- that's 5 pages. So the number of requests is 4 million * 5 = 20 million requests.
Now you need to guesstimate how big each page is. Most of the projects I work with average around 1MB per page so let's go with that. Assuming an average page size of 1MB (including all ajax requests, images etc) the estimated outgoing bandwidth is:
1MB * 20 million = 20 Terabytes per month
Which is a very, very busy site. That's almost Google's search bandwidth usage per year as estimated at around 2009 (around 24TB / year).
OK. Let's say the 4 million is "hits":
1MB * 4 million = 4 Terabytes per month
Still a very respectable web service. I don't know.. probably on the scale of Twitter?
answered 5 mins ago
slebetmanslebetman
1135
Note: I've worked for very successful and profitable web services that can only manage around 10 requests / second max. So you don't really need a lot of bandwidth to run a typical web service like JIRA or Github
– slebetman
3 mins ago
add a comment |
Like others have mentioned. It depends. Since you specifically mention HTTP load balancing then the load balancer will serve 100% of those 4 million visits.
How much bandwith is 4 million visits? You need to measure yourself from your own code. But let's try to do some back-of-the-envelope calculations:
What is a visit? Is it a "hit" or a "unique visit"?
If it's a hit then it's simple. We just use the 4 million number as the number of requests.
If it's a unique visit then how I do it is take an average experience to do the main task of the website (for example to book a place for Airbnb, to book a ride for Uber etc.). Let's say user go to landing page -> search result -> browse a couple of pages -> select item -> book item -- that's 5 pages. So the number of requests is 4 million * 5 = 20 million requests.
Now you need to guesstimate how big each page is. Most of the projects I work with average around 1MB per page so let's go with that. Assuming an average page size of 1MB (including all ajax requests, images etc) the estimated outgoing bandwidth is:
1MB * 20 million = 20 Terabytes per month
Which is a very, very busy site. That's almost Google's search bandwidth usage per year as estimated at around 2009 (around 24TB / year).
OK. Let's say the 4 million is "hits":
1MB * 4 million = 4 Terabytes per month
Still a very respectable web service. I don't know.. probably on the scale of Twitter?
answered 5 mins ago
slebetmanslebetman
1135
Like others have mentioned. It depends. Since you specifically mention HTTP load balancing then the load balancer will serve 100% of those 4 million visits.
How much bandwith is 4 million visits? You need to measure yourself from your own code. But let's try to do some back-of-the-envelope calculations:
What is a visit? Is it a "hit" or a "unique visit"?
If it's a hit then it's simple. We just use the 4 million number as the number of requests.
If it's a unique visit then how I do it is take an average experience to do the main task of the website (for example to book a place for Airbnb, to book a ride for Uber etc.). Let's say user go to landing page -> search result -> browse a couple of pages -> select item -> book item -- that's 5 pages. So the number of requests is 4 million * 5 = 20 million requests.
Now you need to guesstimate how big each page is. Most of the projects I work with average around 1MB per page so let's go with that. Assuming an average page size of 1MB (including all ajax requests, images etc) the estimated outgoing bandwidth is:
1MB * 20 million = 20 Terabytes per month
Which is a very, very busy site. That's almost Google's search bandwidth usage per year as estimated at around 2009 (around 24TB / year).
OK. Let's say the 4 million is "hits":
1MB * 4 million = 4 Terabytes per month
Still a very respectable web service. I don't know.. probably on the scale of Twitter?
answered 5 mins ago
slebetmanslebetman
1135
answered 5 mins ago
slebetmanslebetman
1135
answered 5 mins ago
slebetmanslebetman
1135
answered 5 mins ago
slebetmanslebetman
1135
1135
Note: I've worked for very successful and profitable web services that can only manage around 10 requests / second max. So you don't really need a lot of bandwidth to run a typical web service like JIRA or Github
– slebetman
3 mins ago
add a comment |
Note: I've worked for very successful and profitable web services that can only manage around 10 requests / second max. So you don't really need a lot of bandwidth to run a typical web service like JIRA or Github
– slebetman
3 mins ago
Note: I've worked for very successful and profitable web services that can only manage around 10 requests / second max. So you don't really need a lot of bandwidth to run a typical web service like JIRA or Github
– slebetman
3 mins ago
Note: I've worked for very successful and profitable web services that can only manage around 10 requests / second max. So you don't really need a lot of bandwidth to run a typical web service like JIRA or Github
– slebetman
3 mins ago
add a comment |
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