how many sites on 1 box??

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rmday

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Just wanted to know about how many sites most people have on a direct admin box.

We will be on a 2GHz, 1.5 GIG RAM, 2 300 GIG drives raid1.
Our boxes have always done DB, mail, and web on different machines so I was trying to think about how many sites a box doing everything will hold.

Thanks for any input..

RMDay
 
I can't answer your question, as I am new to DA myself - but I think the answer will be "depends on the sites that you are hosting"

I imagine that if the sites you host are low traffic, then you can easily run hundreds on one box. I know several people that have hundreds on one box and have no problems.

However, I personally run a site that has trouble with just one sever (3gigs ram, etc), so go figure!

But I will be very interested to hear the response from people. Cool to see who has the most sites on one box!
 
Simple sites, hundreds; perhaps close to a 1,000, but it depends on server load, whether or not they use server-side includes, mysql, cgi, php, etc.

More reasonably two to three hundrded. But if usage (see above) is heavy maybe only a hundred.

I've got one client with one site that comes close to saturating his server.

Jeff
 
Thanks for the info. Many of our sites use php and mysql but if I could get close to 100 on each box that would be great.
Was not sure what to expect with one box doing stats, logs, mail, web, db , and backups...
Just wanted to know what others were doing...

Thanks again..

Rmday
 
One popular site could overload a server, but we generally see averages of 100-400 on a box without too many problems. However, some of our customers have managed to host 1000-2000 domains on a server (some being high-load sites too). If you go this route, we suggest having a very good system administrator who can optimize settings for you.

Mark
 
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