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fpsbay · 09-06-2011, 19:05

Hi, let me first introduce myself. My name is Brian and I work for <admin edit>. We currently have a number of servers based in various datacentres around the world, but have found this to be expensive since we require a lot of storage. The company director has decided to convert a recently purchased disused building into our own company data centre. As the technical manager, it is my job to get things up and running in the server department - everything is good to go, but I need some advice on Satellite Broadband.

The building we have installed the servers at (classified location) does not have a very good infrastructure, even just 10Mbps lease lines are far too expensive to have installed for our first year of running the new datacentre.

We are considering TooWay for business Satellite Broadband, they can offer us 40Mbps down and 10Mbps uplink with 500GB/month transfer, but the latency is going to be between 400ms and 700ms (PING).

I have never been involved in hosting from a datacentre with satellite link before - usually I work with fibre directly to the building - but I have been asked to look into this. We will have 4 dishes on the building for different server clusters, but I am only interested in the clusters individually.

I need to know what the effects of high latency will be for services such as email hosting, website hosting and file sharing (not torrents, direct FTP uplink). We will need to access the servers via SSH and RDP - I am aware that the high latency will cause "lagging" especially witht remote desktop, but would it have much effect on a mail server?

How does high latency effect clients when the servers are uploading and downloading over two way satellite links?

I realise that lease line cable will be a much better solution, however <edit> are the kind of company that like to try new technologies and review their performance to find solutions - the service we provide for free is more of a business front, our objectives are mainly research based.

Any advise, ideas, thoughts or comments will be much appreciated. I need help understanding the effects of latency on networks when hosting.

09-06-2011, 19:05	#1
fpsbay Inactive Join Date: Jun 2011 Posts: 3	Two Way Satellite Broadband - Uplink Hosting Hi, let me first introduce myself. My name is Brian and I work for <admin edit>. We currently have a number of servers based in various datacentres around the world, but have found this to be expensive since we require a lot of storage. The company director has decided to convert a recently purchased disused building into our own company data centre. As the technical manager, it is my job to get things up and running in the server department - everything is good to go, but I need some advice on Satellite Broadband. The building we have installed the servers at (classified location) does not have a very good infrastructure, even just 10Mbps lease lines are far too expensive to have installed for our first year of running the new datacentre. We are considering TooWay for business Satellite Broadband, they can offer us 40Mbps down and 10Mbps uplink with 500GB/month transfer, but the latency is going to be between 400ms and 700ms (PING). I have never been involved in hosting from a datacentre with satellite link before - usually I work with fibre directly to the building - but I have been asked to look into this. We will have 4 dishes on the building for different server clusters, but I am only interested in the clusters individually. I need to know what the effects of high latency will be for services such as email hosting, website hosting and file sharing (not torrents, direct FTP uplink). We will need to access the servers via SSH and RDP - I am aware that the high latency will cause "lagging" especially witht remote desktop, but would it have much effect on a mail server? How does high latency effect clients when the servers are uploading and downloading over two way satellite links? I realise that lease line cable will be a much better solution, however <edit> are the kind of company that like to try new technologies and review their performance to find solutions - the service we provide for free is more of a business front, our objectives are mainly research based. Any advise, ideas, thoughts or comments will be much appreciated. I need help understanding the effects of latency on networks when hosting.