carguy84 - 7:50 pm on Feb 13, 2005 (gmt 0)

Ariadoss, your 2.5-5Mbps is your download speed, what you would need to look at is your upload speed since you would be serving the pages, not downloading them. Chances are, at most, you probably have 750Kbs, which for a site with 5,000,000 page views a month, probably isn't going to cut it on a cable modem.

Also, a lot of ISPs block port 80, so you wouldn't be able to run a site on the default port(kind of an important piece).

40Gigs seems like a good amount of space, but I'd imagine your log files are 400-600megs a day, no? GZipping them up every night will get them down to 30megs(ish), so you're looking at 1 gigabyte of traffic logs per month.

Not sure how big your DB is?

Images, photos, mp3s, downloads?

And to add on to lZakl's questions, how about any RAID redundancy available on the server?

I wouldn't run a website with 5million page views/month on a server running a DB and only 1 processor either. But if you're having real problems with your site now, anything it *probably* better. $50/month and 2 terabytes of transfer seems too god to be true, but let me know how it goes, because that is a seriously good deal.

Chip-