From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 5 12:42:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EACD37B401 for ; Sat, 5 Oct 2002 12:42:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 803D343E4A for ; Sat, 5 Oct 2002 12:42:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from owt.com (owt-207-41-94-232.owt.com [207.41.94.232]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA28574; Sat, 5 Oct 2002 12:42:19 -0700 Message-ID: <3D9F409B.5000601@owt.com> Date: Sat, 05 Oct 2002 12:42:19 -0700 From: Kent Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, es-mx MIME-Version: 1.0 To: James Earl Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Setting up a web server the proper way References: <20021005113633.5fd84050.james@icionline.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG James Earl wrote: > In reading the tuning manpage I came across the section entitled "STRIPING DISKS," and it suggests "you should only stripe partitions that require serious I/O performance, typicallly /var, /home, or custom partitions used to hold databases and web pages." > > I only have a single drive to begin with, but I would like to partition it in such a way that will allow for easy upgrading in the future (ie. adding additional web storage). > > The comment from the "STRIPING DISKS" section made me wonder if I should create a separate, "custom" partition that points to wherever Apache normally stores its web pages (I realize this can be changed too)? > > I'd appreciate any other suggestions from those of you who have gone through the motions of setting up a web server from scratch and learned what would have been nice to do differently. They seem to be updating Apache more often right now. If you link to your data, it doesn't disappear when you upgrade Apache. There have been some that have updated and had Apache's install wipe out ../data. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message