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Date:      Thu, 4 Jun 1998 00:29:12 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Leif Neland <leifn@internet.dk>
To:        Jay <jay@oneway.com>
Cc:        Dan Roberts <droberts@gwis.com>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: apache/freebsd limits on vhost servers
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980604002727.482A-100000@darla.swimsuit.internet.dk>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980527005724.7121B-100000@tidal.oneway.com>

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On Wed, 27 May 1998, Jay wrote:

> > I'm putting together a new machine to serve vhost websites.. I want to
> > check if there are any limits on the number of sites that can be hosted on
>  [ . . . ] 
> > Anything anyone aware of?  I don't see anything obvious in any
> > documentation I've read, but I want to be sure before we commit our
> > customers to this new machine.
> 
>     I've successfully run 255 vhosts on a single FreeBSD machine (ips
> ifconfig'ed onto lo0) without any trouble.  We have two machines in that
> configuration right now.  They handle all of the vhosts with no problem at
> all. I have heard tell of people doing more than that, but I've never
> tried. 


You can run all vhosts off the same ip; you don't need separate ip's.

All (?) browsers give the base url when they request a page.



Leif Neland
leifn@internet.dk



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