Barney offered the best answer. We offer collocation and I've seen boxes come to a crawl with one busy phpbb/phpnuke site and other servers with over 700 sites on them running fine. It all depends on the traffic and code behind the site.
Since it sounds like you control the code I would set up some basic performance monitors. The basic counters are... Memory: Pages/sec. Processor: \% Processor Time Physical disk: \% Disk Time Network: Bytes Total/Sec Have one server monitor the other. After 24-48 hours or so you can determine a good baseline and start tracking averages past that. Emmet -----Original Message----- From: jonese [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 12:20 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: # of Sites on a Server All, I'm looking for some feedback on what you consider a resonable amount of clients to put on a dedicated server. We are currently running dual processor 1GB ram servers etc at our hosting provider. Each site includes our custom CMS and has a foot print of at least 20MB. Traffic varies from site to site but we haven't "seen" any real performance hits when we add new sites or other sites get an infusion of traffic. All in all each box right now has about 35 sites on it (one is CFMX Standard, the other is cf5 which we're migrating to CFMX Standard). What do you use as a guage to tell you how many clients to host on a server? When is too many? What tools etc are you using to monitor this? Thanks in advance Eric. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Logware: a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:191647 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
