W. Too wrote 15 February 2002 12:46 Dear Sirs, I represent webdesign & hosting company. We are currently building a Geocities / Homestead type of website for one of our clients. The intention is to give users a free website consisting of (approx) 10 static html pages.
1. Cobalt recommends 200 websites per server. Having in mind that our websites will be fairly small, how many could we comfortably host on a Cobalt RaQ 4i, 256RAM, 20GB HD? 2. while signing up, a user provides some data; could things like a username and password be used to *automatically* create a virtual website on a Cobalt RaQ 4 or XTR? So immediately after signing up, the user would be able to use his website. We would not have to go to the Server Manager and add the virtual site manually. 3. Suppose we host 500 websites per server; what happens if you have more than 500 users. They would have to be hosted on another server. Can anyone provide any advice here? _________ Maybe I've got he wrong end of the stick here, but wouldn't you just need ONE site and hundreds of users? You wouldn't be setting up individual domains for them for free, so have your main site: http://www.freehostingdomain.tld and the space for the users would be: http://www.freehostingdomain.tld/~uniqueusername Either way makes little difference, at a guess I'd say the second way MAY be slightly less processor intensive, as you wouldn't need lots of DNS stuff going on to serve the pages and you'd only be serving/forwarding email on the one domain. But as far as I understand the real limits aren't to do with the numbers of users or virtual sites it's the traffic on your machine. With geocities type sites, I guess most are lucky to have more than a couple of page views a day, so you could probably fit hundreds of users / sites on. I suppose in the end it's down to the business model, if you are looking to sell on domain names, and 'real' hosting packages, then the former way may be easier for you long term. kr, Liam _______________________________________________ cobalt-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-developers
