"Jim Streit" <jimstreit at northlans.com> writes: > Does anyone know how many virtual domains / web sites an apache server can > run? Most everything i've came across on the web says that as long as you > have the CPU power and enough RAM, that you can keep adding as many > virtual sites as you want, but what does that really mean? 4, 10, 40, 200, > sites? > > I understand most of limitations would be based on how heavy the traffic > was, but saying that each site gets very minimal traffic. Say like if I > give each department of a company their own virtual server address. > dept.business.com I'm currently running 53 virtual hosts on a dual-processor Pentium Pro (200MHz each). Serving more than a gigabyte a day of web content. (The number is a count of <VirtualHost></VirtualHost> sections in my Apache config file). With a load average mostly around .1 (and that's when I'm on running emacs and reading mail like this). So I'm nowhere near the limits of either Apache or my processors. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net / New TMDA anti-spam in test John Dyer-Bennet 1915-2002 Memorial Site http://john.dyer-bennet.net Book log: http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/Ouroboros/booknotes/ New Dragaera mailing lists, see http://dragaera.info