> I was wondering what is the limit of web site domains a single linux
box
>can handle? Say the load is just a few small pages per hour for each of the
>sites. Or heck even through hardware out of the loop for a second. What is
>the max that linux and apache can handle? 10? 100? 1000?
Someone mentioned on the Apache mailing list ('bout three months ago?) that
they did a test with Apache with mod_rewrite and got 20 000 virtual domains
up and running. IIRC, this involved doing things like making
http://this.here.org and http://that.there.org folding into ./here/this and
./there/that.
The main limiting factor to this is not Apache or even your CPU and RAM.
It's your NIC (and probably, by extension, your pipe).
The other gotcha is that if you hang all the virt doms of a single IP, many
web spiders do a numeric lookup, and not reverse DNS, thus, only the last
virt dom gets visited by the bots.
DL
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