David.Smith@esa.int writes:
> Folks,
>
> Can someone please give me an idea as to how much bandwidth a reasonable
> feed to an NNTPCache server would take up? By 'reasonable feed' I mean
> that binaries would be excluded, as would most porno sites. Anything else
> would be available. I'm looking at serving a total of 3,500 - 4,000 users.
> My guess is that this would take 20 - 50 Mb per day. How far out am I,
> please?
>
> Dave Smith
> --
> David O Smith
> Somerford Consultancy Ltd
It wildly depends on the users, but if the average usenet article is 10k, plus
a 4Mb a day over-head for list indexes, and around 200k for a 100 article group
index. (all these are cached, but still...), then you're looking at a lot
more than 20-50Mb a day.
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