Virtual Hosting

der.hans PLUGd@LuftHans.com
Sun, 7 Jan 2001 18:42:48 -0700 (MST)


Am 06. Jan, 2001 schwäzte George Toft so:

> 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 

Have you looked at /proc/sys/fs/file-nr and /proc/sys/fs/file-max? That
should allow you to have more, right? See Kevin Buettner's post about them
from a few months ago.

Were there any services you had problems virtual hosting?

I had probs with tftp, but that's not something that's usually offerred
:).

ciao,

der.hans
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