Re: shaping a little (only some files)
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Leonardo Boselli wrote:
> I have a server, it is connected via a 100 mb NIC to a router that in turn
> is connected, together with other servers and ws to internet.
> I have observed that if no one is using the net (for example at 0600 on
> sunday) people can download from apache up to a rate that is limited
> just by the ide interface.
> Of course if this occour when many (about 600) people are connected
> using up to 60 Mb of bandwidth is not acceptable.
> I wish then set three timeslot: one weekdays 8 to 19 , one 19 to 24 and
> 7 to 8 and the third 24 to 7.
> also the directories would be divided in three groups: Istitutional pages,
> Documentation (reports), Documentation (full documents).
> First group would be allowed maximun speed at any time, the second
> wpuld be allowed maximun speed at peak time only for certain subnets,
> while the third group at peak time and intermediate time should be
> throttled to a maximum of 2 mb/S.
> How to do ? i thought to set the three group of pages on different
> servers and throttle each one via cron, but this would require to have a
> separate one.
> Can i do wuth just one server, possibly by redirectioning the two
> "heavy" dir4ectories to a diferent virtual address used by the redirector
> an throttled at time ?
If you want to do shaping like this (timeslots & paths) you probably
want to look at running a transparent proxy in front of the web server
like squid. What you want to do would be very easy and can be done all
on the one server.
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