Thank you all who replied I just was concerned and wanted a warm fuzzing
Thanks again.
Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet wrote:
> Jeff Keller wrote:
>> Obviously server horsepower and user type profile have everything to
>> do with "capacity", but I'd be curious to know how many sites some of
>> you are running on a single box.
>> I get nervous with more than 100 web/mail hosting sites on a box (w/
>> a 15 user per site average) and I'll deploy another box when I get
>> to 100 sites. My servers are very idle so I could probably go to 500
>> sites--but that's a lot of eggs in one basket...
>
> We've had NO problem with 200+ sites per box.
>
> That's a holdover from the Cobalt days. Certainly the systems are far
> more powerful these days (depending on the hardware you choose) but
> then again, back in the early 2000's you'd have static sites and folks
> who checked email a few times a day. Not so, any longer!
>
> As for the "eggs in a basket", that's a matter of personal comfort.
> If there were a worst case scenario for us and a machine "flamed out,"
> (actually, we've had one flare up on us before - literal flame), then
> we're activating a cold spare and importing last night's backup. It
> makes little time difference whether that's 100 or 200 sites for us.
> True, it's more customers down at once, but we've got the support
> staff to handle the tickets and calls. Most "reasonable customers"
> will understand that sometimes bad things happen with computers and
> appreciate that you have (a) a backup and (b) their email is not
> bouncing in the meantime (which, the way we set things, it doesn't -
> it all queues).
>
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