there are still a large number of "non modern" clients out there, including anyone using the default browser on an Android phone and anyone with any flavor of IE on WindowsXP....
a -- Aaron Macks Sr. Unix Systems Engineer Harvard Business Publishing 300 North Beacon St. | Watertown, MA 02472 (617) 783-7461 | Fax: (617) 783-7467 www.harvardbusiness.org | Cell:(978) 317-3614 On May 22, 2011, at 5:58 PM, Jeroen Geilman wrote: > On 05/22/2011 09:42 PM, Macks, Aaron wrote: >> the only reasons I'd possibly suggest #2 are: >> 1. multiple SSL certs, it is still not easy to have multiple SSL certs on a >> single system, you either need to setup multiple IP addresses for that box >> or run on multiple virtualservers > > All modern browsers now support Server Name Indication (SNI), which allow you > to run SSL vhosts. > >> 2. If you expect the business to get HUGE for some of the sites, then you >> can spin up more VServers for only the sites that need to handle more >> traffic... Then you're probably talking about dedicated loadbalancers and >> much more hardware anyway >> >> so barring those 2 conditions, I agree 100% with Jeroen that #1 is the way >> to go >> >> a >> -- >> Aaron Macks >> Sr. Unix Systems Engineer >> >> Harvard Business Publishing >> 300 North Beacon St. | Watertown, MA 02472 >> (617) 783-7461 | Fax: (617) 783-7467 >> www.harvardbusiness.org | Cell:(978) 317-3614 >> >> On May 22, 2011, at 12:54 PM, Jeroen Geilman wrote: >> >>> On 05/22/2011 05:43 PM, Isaac XxX wrote: >>>> Hi folks, >>>> >>>> I have to move some sites (10) from virtual hosts to a single dedicated >>>> machine. The number of sites will grow on time. >>>> >>>> I've two ways to implement it: >>>> 1. set a single apache instance to serve all sites configuring a single >>>> apache virtual host for each one >>> Yes. >>> >>>> 2. set some virtual servers (with xen for example) and install on each >>>> them a single apache, serving one or few sites. The root partition could >>>> had a single apache or nginx doing the load balance task. Of course, all >>>> virtual servers will be on the same dedicated machine >>> This will consume much more resources. >>> >>>> Wich way you think is better? (performance, maintainment structure, >>>> scalability...) >>>> >>>> Thanks a lot >>> >>> -- >>> J. >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. >>> See<URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org >>> " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org >>> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. >> See<URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org >> " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org >> > > > -- > J. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. > See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org