I have a Raq4 server with 512 meg of Ram,

I am just wondering if I have 1 very active message board,
how many other sites could I safely put on that same server?

I also heard the CGI message boards tax servers way to much and to avoid them at all cost. I was told told to stick with a PHP board.

I got this new Raq and have 1 customer on it that has a pretty active message board. It is a PHP mySQL board, a vBulletin clone at http://www.woltlab.de/en/news.php

Thanks in advance for any input.

There's no magic number of additional sites you can put on the machine. Add sites until resources look to be getting too high and watch it.

If the sites are mainly based on Static Pages, you can put several on it without trouble but if the sites are way too much database driven and also receives good traffic you should put Max. 8-10 websites on it.

But that is just my thought, may be I am wrong.


-Omair

with proper configurations you can do wonders. of course, there's no magic number or anything, but i think you could definately do more than 10 or so. personally, i wouldn't put more than 100 small to mid-size sites on a raq4. of course, only you can gauge the amount of resources your customers would need and that involves knowing the ins and outs of php, apache, mysql, and the other aspects of your server.



i have a raq4i with 512mb ram with 2 sites on it.
1. gets around 45000 page hits per month. and has a total of 7 static html pages and 1 image in a fixed frame.

2. gets a little over 4.5million page hits last month, is completely dynamic PHP and MySQL driven, and pushes between 35gb - 40gb of bandwidth per month.

at first, my peak 15minute CPU was around 2.5, with .8 - 1.2 for off peak. however, i played around and tested out various tweaks for apache and mysql, and now my peak 15 is lucky to hit 1.0 and off peak .40. i'm going after PHP once i can learn a little more about it's configuration.