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minus-square@ryannathans@aussie.zonelinkfedilink5•2 months agoOn my current internet plan I can move about 130TB/month and that’s sufficent for me, but I could upgrade plan to satisfy the requirement
minus-squareKarnaOPlinkfedilink3•2 months agoYour home server might have the required bandwidth but not requisite the infra to support server load (hundreds of parallel connections/downloads). Bandwidth is only one aspect of the problem.
minus-square@ryannathans@aussie.zonelinkfedilink4•2 months agoTen gig fibre for internal networking, enterprise SFP+ network hardware, big meaty 72 TB FreeBSD ZFS file server with plenty of cache, backup power supply and UPS The tech they require really isn’t expensive anymore
On my current internet plan I can move about 130TB/month and that’s sufficent for me, but I could upgrade plan to satisfy the requirement
Your home server might have the required bandwidth but not requisite the infra to support server load (hundreds of parallel connections/downloads).
Bandwidth is only one aspect of the problem.
Ten gig fibre for internal networking, enterprise SFP+ network hardware, big meaty 72 TB FreeBSD ZFS file server with plenty of cache, backup power supply and UPS
The tech they require really isn’t expensive anymore