Virtual Hosting

[Keith Smith]

Knowing that you were running an AMD K6/500 with 128MB RAM, I am
curious about what drives you are using.

Did this setup include mail, data, and httpd all on one server?

Thanks,
Keith




----- Original Message -----
From: George Toft <george@georgetoft.com>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2001 10:16 PM
Subject: Re: Virtual Hosting


> We did 1800 sites on 30 IP's - what's the big deal?  We found the
> practical limit to Apache's ability to serve virtuals was about
> 240 URL's.  This was due to the fact that we ran out of file
> descriptors, which required either recompiling the kernel (not at
> 3:30am when we found the problem) or stop logging access, errors,
> referrers, and agents.  We then started logging just access and
error,
> and the next problem was all these cgi gurus on the virtual accounts
> that kept dragging down the server, but that was after we approached
> 300 virtuals on 1 IP on one AMD K6/500 with 128MB RAM.
>
> George
>
>
> Keith Smith wrote:
> >
> > Check this guys email.
> >
> > 477 sites on 2 IP's!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: sweetgrass <zen2now@qwest.net>
> > To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
> > Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 10:23 PM
> > Subject: Re: Virtual Hosting
> >
> > > i assume you are speaking of web hosting. the reason i ask, is
> > because we
> > > host in house as well co-locate, but use virtual hosts with
apache
> > and
> > > virtual ip's with IIS (M$'s definition), and trust me you will
want
> > to use
> > > virtual hosts if you are hosting more than 30 sites. at our
co-lo we
> > are
> > > serving up more than 477 sites on 2 ip's, so you can understand
why
> > virtual
> > > hosting is so important. it makes maintaining zones a cake walk.
> > apache.org
> > > should lead you in the right direction,
> > > and if you choose the lesser platform M$ can help. also
o'reily's
> > has a
> > > great book to start out with.
> > >
> > > slr
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "John Albee" <john@empresamexicana.com>
> > > To: "PLUG" <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
> > > Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 1971 5:08 PM
> > > Subject: Virtual Hosting
> > >
> > >
> > > > We are in the process of converting our websites to our own
> > servers
> > > instead
> > > > of virtual hosting for our sites.  My question is about how to
get
> > it
> > > setup
> > > > to work like the virtual servers in terms of ftp and system
users.
> > I
> > > would
> > > > much rather do this than something like NFS and in case we
ever do
> > offer
> > > > virtual hosting, I want it to be accessible in the same way as
any
> > other
> > > > virtual server.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > John Albee
> > > >
> > > >
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