I figures I drop in a line about the
current status of using Mandrake for production servers.
I am currently using three servers,
with the following configurations as follows:
Pentium III 500Mhz, 256 Meg of Ram, 15 Gigs
Drives.
Here
is what I have configured on those three bad ass monsters:
Apache
1.3.12 - Provided by Jean with the MySQL Database, PHP4, formerly 3, Perl,
Frontpage, Tomcat 3.2-Beta4, IBM Java 1.1.3, Qmail 1.03 with Vpopmail and
Qmailadmin and SSH.
And the result? I currently
have over 6482 domains hosted on all servers, with 1142 on Unixhost 1, 1328 on
Unixhost2 and 5392 on Unixhost3. If you are wondering why I have such a
huge number on Unixhost3, it is due to the fact that Unixhost1 and 2 are moved
servers from leased servers to our home brewed server and transferred the files
over from there, which include removing Sendmail crap and other custom crap for
clean installation. Unixhost3 is built from scratch and built up from
there...and it is humming along nicely on Unixhost3....with 8 high volume
websites on Unixhost3, which averages around 40,000 hits per day on those
specific sites and overall, 900,000 hits per day for everything combined on
Unixhost3.
Now...do you think that is little
unbelievable or not? It was not possible with Redhat back then, but with
this Mandrake system, I was able to cram so much and still have it run along
with such aplomb with no problems at all. Now I am currently building a
new server with 700Mhz system with 384Meg of Memory and 30 Gig drive to handle
even larger influx of websites and to move some high traffic sites off to
there.
Anyone dare claim even bigger piece
of pie of what Mandrake can do? I think mine is nuts, but works like a
charm though. Hell... even my boss and the co-location facility who hosts
it is amazed by it. :)
So.... in words... keep up good work
guys!
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Linux Support
& Adminstrator
Russell "Elik" Rademacher
DelhiNet Web Services, Pvt
Ltd.
