Re: [cobalt-developers] Geocities / Homestead type of website

["Ryan Verner" <xfesty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

| Dear Sirs,
| I represent webdesign & hosting company. We are currently building a
| Geocities / Homestead type of website for one of our clients. The
intention
| is to give users a free website consisting of (approx) 10 static html
pages.
| May I ask a few questions, please?
|
| 1. Cobalt recommends 200 websites per server. Having in mind that our
| websites will be fairly small, how many could we comfortably host on a
| Cobalt RaQ 4i, 256RAM, 20GB HD?

Its more a story of how many people are accessing your server at once.  I'd
guess you could probably handle 500+ easily if the sites aren't going to be
high traffic.

| 2. while signing up, a user provides some data; could things like a
username
| and password be used to *automatically* create a virtual website on a
Cobalt
| RaQ 4 or XTR? So immediately after signing up, the user would be able to
use
| his website. We would not have to go to the Server Manager and add the
| virtual site manually.

Sure, if you hack up a script to do this.

| 3. Suppose we host 500 websites per server; what happens if you have more
| than 500 users. They would have to be hosted on another server. Can anyone
| provide any advice here?

You should be able to handle more then 500 users?  I don't understand this
question.

- xfesty

| Thanks in advance & Best regards,
|
| William.
|
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