Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 00:24:39 +0100 (BST) From: Scot Elliott <scot@poptart.org> To: Leif Neland <leifn@internet.dk> Cc: Jay <jay@oneway.com>, Dan Roberts <droberts@gwis.com>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: apache/freebsd limits on vhost servers Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980604002108.7358A-100000@tweetie.online.barbour-index.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980604002727.482A-100000@darla.swimsuit.internet.dk>
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That's not entirely true. Most modern browsers support it, but you'd be surprised at how many old browsers are still being used. We put agent logging on our web servers for a few months to test this; around 40% of clients did not have browsers that could cope with host based virtual hosting (ie. based on the Host: HTTP header rather than the IP address the request came in on). Shame really, 'cos it seems an awful waste using IPs for this. Yours, Scot. On Thu, 4 Jun 1998, Leif Neland wrote: > 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 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scot Elliott (scot@poptart.org) | Work: +44 (0)171 7046777 PGP fingerprint: FCAE9ED3A234FEB59F8C7F9DDD112D | Home: +44 (0)181 8961019 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Public key available by finger at: finger scot@poptart.org or at: http://www.poptart.org/pgpkey.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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