Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 12:11:14 -0500 From: "Jim Flowers" <jflowers@ezo.net> To: johnhoover@comcast.net, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Email/Web hosting file layout question Message-ID: <20020227121114.M44913@ezo.net> In-Reply-To: <002201c1bfab$d23228e0$c801a8c0@internal.unknown> References: <002201c1bfab$d23228e0$c801a8c0@internal.unknown>
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Servers are cheap. ~$500 Use two. Separating functions makes each less dependent on the other being perfect. I use sendmail so /var/mail/username with virtusertable to sort out domains. Huge hard disks are cheap - less than $200. Use more than one. I like mounting as /usr2 /usr3 ... but it's just comfort. Anything will do. Then I symlink /usr2/var/mail to /var/mail, usr2/var/db/mysql to /var/db/mysql /usr2/tmp to /tmp etc. to take the pressure off / and /usr. Better performance putting programs and data on separate spindles. to minimize setup for dynamic virtual domains I symlink /usr2/vhosts/ to /home/vhosts and then build domain.tld/www, work and cgi-bin subdirectories under that. See apache on dynamic virtual hosting. Basic idea is to have the logical directory structure mirror the physical directory structure as much as possible to minimize the bookkeeping you have to keep in your head. Works for me. > Has anyone, or is anyone willing to share, their thoughts on > how an Email/Web server's file layout should be. Everything > I've dealt with has been small and but they're starting to > grow and I don't want to reorganize everything in a few months > due to poor early decisions. So..., who's willing to share > their file and drive layouts for production Email/Web servers? > > Just in case I wasn't clear, I'm after where you're keeping > user/vhost mail/webpages. > > Thanks > John. > > ------------------------------------ > John Hoover > johnhoover@comcast.net > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message -- Jim Flowers<jflowers@ezo.net> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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