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I am about to change Dedicated Server providers. My current provider says the uplink is 500M. The (potential) new host offers by default a 100M uplink and charges an extra $100/Month for a Gigabit uplink instead. (nothing in between).

My overall bandwidth usage is around 80-100 Gig / Month (as reported by WHM) This seems pretty low on average, but does not help me with the peaks.

How can I determine my peak bandwith over a few hours or days?

TecBrat
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Run a program counting traffivc in minute intervals, visualize it. Any firewall should be able to do that. This shows you utilized bandwidth and that tells you all you need to know.

MOnitorix should b able to do that on Linux.

http://www.monitorix.org/

TomTom
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Just the bandwidth usage is not really enough to decide whether 100M is enough for you. Do you serve large files? Video streams? Gaming server? Many simultaneous users?

A large uplink speed is useful if you serve large files, or many users at the same time. Since you have to ask, I'd say the chance that 100M is enough for you is pretty high.

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