Re: [cobalt-users] How many users?

[Kris Dahl <krislists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 7/19/00 6:30 AM, cuny@xxxxxxxxxxxxx at cuny@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Hi folks,
> 
> Being new to the Cobalt seen I have a general question:
> 
> On a Raq3 with 4 IPs (we will host virtual sites, so we'll run several sites
> under 1 IP).  How many sites do folks think we can comfortably host if some of
> the site are running low usage Perl scripts (i.e. Bulletin Boards, guest
> books, FrontPage Ext, etc.)

It certainly depends on what you consider low usage perl scripts.  UBB for
example is a great example of what one would think would be a low usage set
of scripts.  But it is not.

You can run quite a few, but you will need to keep an eye on your processes,
CPU utilization, etc. just as you would with any server.  If you are
outgrowing the box, you'll need to prepare to purchase another--or develop
some better scripts for your users.  That is the problem with letting the
users install whatever, you as an administrator never know what you are
going to get.  I personally would not let anyone run UBB on my systems.  Or
any heavy flat file system, really.

-k