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Godaddy update

Jul22

As indicated in an earlier blog post, I was having bandwidth issues with Godaddy’s dedicated servers.

An outline of the problem so far: Godaddy claims the server should have access to 100mbit of bandwidth. Even in a busy datacentre I would expect atleast 10mbit acheiveble bandwith on this connection.

Speed tests done at the server show that its more like a residential cable/dsl connection with downloads in the range of 2mbits and upload in the range of 400 kbits.

They call this a dedicated server and assure you that they have redundant network connections, great uptime, dedicated bandwidth. etc. They sell you a maximum of 2000 Gb / month of transfer per server.

Showing the 2mbits connection sustained over a one month period:

2mbits/sec x 1 mB/8 mbits x 1 GB / 1024mB x 1 min/60 sec x 1 hour/60 min x 1 day/24 hours x 1 month/30 days

This gives a grand total of : 632 GB /month.

Anyone with any experience with servers knows that it is not possible to sustain any connection at 100 % saturation for extended periods of time.

I would be interested in knowing if any Godaddy dedicated server users are able to push more than 500 GB of data per month.

Getting back to the original problem, Godaddy claimed to have increased the port speed to 100 mbits after a support ticket request. No change in speed was realized though.