From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 5 10:25:56 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 1408F37B401 for ; Sat, 5 Oct 2002 10:25:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from priv-edtnes27.telusplanet.net (defout.telus.net [199.185.220.240]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4011143E4A for ; Sat, 5 Oct 2002 10:25:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from james@icionline.ca) Received: from urbanex2 ([142.179.170.94]) by priv-edtnes27.telusplanet.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.05 201-253-122-122-105-20011231) with SMTP id <20021005172554.LPHK23429.priv-edtnes27.telusplanet.net@urbanex2> for ; Sat, 5 Oct 2002 11:25:54 -0600 Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2002 11:36:33 -0600 From: James Earl To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Setting up a web server the proper way Message-Id: <20021005113633.5fd84050.james@icionline.ca> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.3 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.6) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII 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 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. James To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message