Re: [cobalt-users] Maximum number of web sites??

[Cody Watkins <codyw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 06:55 PM 8/21/00 -0700, you wrote:
>We are thinking of purchasing a RaQ3 or RaQ4 server, but need to know if 
>there is a maximum number of web sites we can create.
>
>I called Cobalt technical support and they commented the administrative 
>control panel will only allow 200 web sites (maximum).  This support person 
>also said there are ways around this restriction and this forum could help.
>
>This support person said there has been some code created to circumvent 
>this 200 web site restriction.  Does anyone know about this "code" so we 
>can create more than 200 web sites using the existing Cobalt control panel?
>
>FYI: We actually want to create 7,500 web sites on one Cobalt 
>server!!  Each web site will be very basic with only about 2-3 pages (each 
>web site totaling about 100k). All web sites will be basic HTML pages using 
>SSI.  Does anyone foresee any major problems using a Cobalt server for this 
>purpose?
>
>Thank you for your help. :)))))
>
>
>Robert Farris
>How To Internet.com
>robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

I don't think Apache will handle that many individule sites.  Maybe 1,000 -
2,000 if you are lucky ? I think that the httpd.conf file will be huge and
Apache might not be able to handle it. 


Sincerely,
Cody Watkins
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