3. As ig1 notes, back then we had unencrypted passwords in the database and database copies on our machines, which were our personal laptops, so a spare drive in the apartment was the least of our problems.

That sounds like "no" and "no". Thanks for answering!

I'd be very disappointed if they were sold on ebay instead of listia ;).

   6.5 TB of Data Out / mo
   2TB of Data In / mo

that seems incredibly low

It's basically all text, gzipped over the wire

Our site is mostly text.

still, your bandwidth usage is pretty much the equivalent of what comes with a single dedicated server.

Yes, but it is all dynamic content, which it why it needs so many resources, if that is what you are getting it.

Also, Akamai offloads a lot of the traffic from us.

When you ignore the CDN and other external resources, that's pretty much how most text based sites are. The ads alone probably exceed that 6.5TB number.

Also, be careful with those dedicated servers. They can give you ONE MEEELLION TB of bandwidth but it won't do you any good on a 100mb pipe or an extremely oversold network.

6.5 TB of gzipped text is a lot. Uncompressed it could be a few multiples of that.

That's even less iron than I thought. No point upgrading the existing ones with SSDs?

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