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I have no idea about CPU usage % - these are TCH figures (I don't know much about servers at all) - but here you go Mike - load graph:

Thanks for your reply Mike - but take a look at my CPU usage, particularly that spike on Wednesday last week! when an extra 100,000+visitors hit the site and the CPU was maxed out - what do you reckon was happening there?

Hi, I'm currently running one site on a dedicated server (Quad Xeons, 2Gb RAM) and getting around 20,000 visitors a day, at 20mbps bandwidth. I now need to urgently upgrade in anticipation of up to 200,000 visitors a day and 100mbps+ bandwidth. What would you suggest as the best solution to easily cope with this traffic/server load - and also allow further expansion beyond this? In other words, should I be thinking about a load balanced server cluster or is there another simpler/more suitable way? Btw, the site in question uses static files only - no databases, email, php, asp etc. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

will do Andy - thanks for your help - and the welcome

Hi Andy, Actually, I currently use a dedicated, managed server with you - and it's now up to its 1000Gb limit - so I think I'll need to get another one anyway - but I wondered how I could cope with that kind of 50Mb+ bandwidth if I went for this advertising - without having to go for 3+ servers in one go!

Thanks Steve.

I'm currently using about 3Mb per second on average, peaking at 8Mb. Now, I'm thinking of doing some ads which I think might lead to peaks of around 50Mb per second for the duration of the ads, and maybe increase the regular traffic to 10-20Mb per second. What are my best options for this scenario?