Posted by Andrew Jury on March 29, 19100 at 02:47:08:
In Reply to: What are the limitations of using Linux on your server (if there is one)? posted by John DiMarco on March 20, 19100 at 10:45:56:
: My company is planning on hosting roughly 200 web sites on a single Linux box (I am unsure as to which flavor), with Apache server. The server will have roughly between 500 megs ~ 1 gig of memory. These sites will by dynamic and primarily database driven on a separate server which will be using MYSQL as the back end and Perl to access the data. Is this a feasible notion, can a single Linux box coupled with a database server with the previous stats be capable of hosting and handling approximately 200 dynamic web sites?
: Thanks in advance
John,
Probably if you throw enough resource at it, but you
should consider what might happen if your 'single' host fails!
It might be better to make your system a bit more distributed,
so should there be a failure of some kind your whole
infrastructure isn't wiped out! You then might have 200 very
angry customers screaming because they can't trade...
In terms of building an ISP of this type you might want to
look at some of the Sun Enterprise kit (sorry Apple fans)
I understand Solaris 8 is now offered free up to 8 CPUs.
Regards,
aj