FWIW - I have one client with approximately 10,000 domains being served from a single Aolserver instance. We point all the domains to a single IP and use a filter to pull the right gobbledy-goo from the database. Seems to work fine - Aolserver ~3.4...
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Tom Jackson wrote: > Edward Wilson wrote: > > >Why would the AOL team think so selfishly by removing > >virtual hosting? Do they not care that others rely on > >their server? > > > > > Nothing was lost in removing virtual hosting, except the difficulty of > mantaining > a single config file for all those hosts. Since each server takes up as > much memory > running separately as when combined, resources are not saved. This is > very different > from Apache which could easily run thousands of virtual hosts without > increasing > memory useage (since is spawned a new process for each request anyway). > With > the style of virtual hosting in the pre 3.0 series, any change to a > virtual server would require > a restart of the entire process, bringing down every virtual host in the > process. Since each > virtual server was initialized separately, the time to restart was > proportional to the number of > virtual servers. > > I don't know what the current situation is with the new implimentation, > but if it is the same, I can't see > why it would be useful. I believe the config file problems are greatly > reduced. > > In the mean time several users, including myself, developed virtual > hosting using registered filters. This proved > to be very efficient, even when written in tcl. > > --Tom Jackson > > > > I. To remove yourself from this list: > > Send a message to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" with the following text in > the BODY of your message: > > signoff aolserver > > II. For a complete list of listserv options please visit: > > http://listserv.aol.com/ > > III. For more AOLserver information please visit: > > http://www.aolserver.com/ > I. To remove yourself from this list: Send a message to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" with the following text in the BODY of your message: signoff aolserver II. For a complete list of listserv options please visit: http://listserv.aol.com/ III. For more AOLserver information please visit: http://www.aolserver.com/
