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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