What is the best hosting option for Flash web-widget?

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Published on 2010-05-19T09:13:45Z Indexed on 2010/05/19 9:20 UTC
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Our Flash web-widget has got highly popular. It is downloaded around 100,000 times per day. And that is the problem. Our server bandwidth is too narrow to deliver the widget to the clients fast. The widget is loaded very slow. Probably 20 times slower than before (at peak times).

Probably I have choosen not the right hoster for my task - delivering 1 MB Flash widget to 100,000 users per day. What is the best hosting solution in my case?

I'm not good at server administration so forgive me if I sound naive.

The details are the following.

Our hoster options:
-Dedicated server, Ubuntu
-10 Mbit Connection
-monthly bandwidth limit: 2000 GB

Widget size is 1 MB.
The widget consists of the main SWF and a number of loaded SWF and data files.

This is a part of Apache Status report taken right now

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Server uptime: 1 hour 2 minutes 38 seconds
Total accesses: 74865 - Total Traffic: 5.8 GB
CPU Usage: u28 s7.78 cu0 cs0 - .952% CPU load
19.9 requests/sec - 1.6 MB/second - 81.1 kB/request
200 requests currently being processed, 0 idle workers

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