Sub-Domain Issues with DirectAdmin

[tgo316]

Hello,
For any further reference to this thread, i had previously asked a similar question to which I received a suitable reply. Although the answer helped me for a short duration, it hasn't really helped over the course of time.

You can find the thread here
http://www.directadmin.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=8089

So the problem in short is that whenever i add sub-domains to my server, direct-admin gives up on me.
My server admin suggested to change certain settings within the log files and with a little help from JMStacey, i managed to do that right.

Now i have around 3500 Sub-Domains on my server on a Pentium 4, 2.8 GHZ server. If i add a few more sub-domains, port 80 hangs up, whereas i can still access port 2222

So when i go onto delete those additional sub-domains, port 80 is back, funtioning well and dandy.

I definetely cannot afford another server, and what's worse is I fear that if i change my control panel to let's say plesk, cpanel or any other. I may have to format the disks, re-install everything and add those 3500 plus sub-domains yet again which for me would be burying myself alive.

Any suggestions on what could be done?
Please take a moment to go to the thread above to understand exactly what the problem is.

Best Regards
Amit

 

[nobaloney]

Sounds like you've reached some limits.

Open file limits?

I don't know.

And I wouldn't know without doing some testing on your server.

Apache was probably not designed to handle thousands of subdomains without major changes to the configuration files, lots of changing to the logging, and lots of memory and processor power.

You should probably write these questions on an apache list or forum; the folk there may be more familiar with your problem.

Have you looked here?

Jeff