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Anyone work at a web-hosting company?

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Mucman

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I am just curious as to how many sites you put on a server...

Our latest server has 350 sites on it. It's running win2k Server, 1Gig of RAM, dual PIII, SCSI 160. The thing runs like a rock but I was wondering what the max it should handle. We have two class C's that can go on that server.
 
Hrm...Thats really hard to say, have you checked how much of a load it is under currently?

We run a Sun Fire 6800 for our server it has a little over 900 sites on it but of course it has 12
processors and 40gigs of mem on it, of course we use that mainly for managed services.
 
Holy! You put probably put all of our websites on that thing!

I am going to take a look at Sun's website and drool 🙂
 
we have 2 web machines, one is a dual p3-500 w/ 1gb of ram ... it has 3 sql dbs [about 100mb apeice], a bunch of access dbs, and at last count, 297 websites. This particular machine handles that, which totals to right around 32,000 hits a day no problem. CPU usage is pretty constant around 20%.

The other machine is our e-commerce / server-side scripting machine. It's an athlon 750 w/ 1gb of ram and a scsi array, and it hosts right around 70 sites ... and it's CPU usage rarely spikes over 10%. All the sites on this machine heavily utilize ASP, PHP, Perl etc ... there are 2 *big* SQL dbs [over 2gb apeice!] and a *LOT* of ever-changing, always queried Access & mySQL databases...

web servers don't take a lot of horsepower to run at all.

$.02
randal
 
Heh..

There is no answer to your question, save limitations (which can be overcome) of file descriptors, etc. for logfiles and such. It's more how many hits the server has to deal with.

We have a dual 650 w/ 1GB RAM, running linux+apache. We only have around 25 sites on it right now, but it does about 20 million hits/day or so (about 450 requests/sec during peak times) without breaking much of a sweat. You obviously couldn't put very many sites that pull traffic like that on it.

But another server we have has about 100+ sites on it, and it's a single PII450. No sweat there either.. About 2 million hits/day.

*shrug* All depends on your traffic levels/patterns. Really has nothing to do (aside from open files, etc. that your OS may have limits on) with how many virtual hosts you decide to throw on it.

-Phil
 
I see... This server rocks right now, but when some clients ask us how many sites we put on a server, I tell them the truth. They think that is too many to put on a server, but I was in no position to tell them they are wrong or not because I didn't know for sure. The CPU usage is usually around 20-30% and it usually uses around 1.5GB of virtual memory.

Thanks for the replies, I was just curious about what other people do 🙂
 
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