Re: [cobalt-users] Pushing Limits

[Kris Dahl <krislists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 5/3/00 5:02 PM, PyschoCotic@xxxxxxx at PyschoCotic@xxxxxxx wrote:

> Cobalt claims the server can handle 200 domains... Now is that a physical
> limit or could I handle 400 domains if each domain was barely used?

This has been covered fairly well in the archives, but I've got an
additional notion that I would like to point out.

Its not a hard limit.  But you're going to want to give the machine as much
memory as you can afford.  I wouldn't do it on anything less than 256M.

Now that being said, when you start doing that level of hosting, it is
*probably* going to be worth your while to get a system with RAID that can
survive a single disk failure.

It sucks when 50 sites have to wait while you restore from tape or whatever,
but 400 would be a nightmare.  You're clients would make life hell for you
while you tried to restore the data.  It would undoubthedly be ugly.  If you
are getting $20/mo * 400 users, that's $8k a month.  It would be *extremely*
cost effective to get a mirrored RAID system that would remain up even if a
drive failed.

Just something to think about.