How many hosting customers can I put on this server with these specs..

Dual P3 133 / 256 mb ram / 36 gig scsi drive 10k rpm

I am debating buying two servers to colocate at about 80+ bandwidth costs - most of which is cpanel licensing and need some numbers to figure in.

Also is it fairly easy to resell accounts with cpanel? to have resellers off of your server - let me know - thanks :)

Dual P3 1.13ghz

>>>How many hosting customers can I put on this server with these specs..

Dual P3 133 / 256 mb ram / 36 gig scsi drive 10k rpm<<<

It depends on what hosting plans you are offering and are you running Windows or Unix?

Depending on your plans, you may be able to have 500, maybe even over 1,000 without slowing down the server. I've seen servers in the past few years much less powerful than that with a few hundred customers no problem.

Jon

if you have one network card you can put 254 ips/ dedicated ip websites on it. or many more name based hosts. see the post above.

Back in the day I pushed 450 domains on PIII 500MHZ 512MB RAM with 9GB SCSI... for some reason it didn't overload, thought do not try to do this at home! :dgrin:

I would upgrade your server to atleast 512MB RAM and would put around 350-400 domains, but again, it all depends on the resources.

As guys already posted, it really depends from the bandwidth, ram and cpu requirements all hosted sites will require. If it's a lot of PHP+Mysql it will slow down the server with less users/sites hosted on it.. the same applies with Perl and other interpretator code (bash scripts etc...etc).

I will also suggest you add extra 256MB memory, but your server should be good enough to serve around 200...300 or even 700 domains with low CGI/PHP/MYSQL usage and OK bandwidth requirements -- near 100...200GB monthly... But it's really hard to say for 100% to be sure

As has already been said, it depends entirely on the sites hosted.

I've seen a company put over 500 web sites on a 400Mhz P2 without slowing it down. On this machine, you may very well be able to put up 1,000 sites if they are relatively small while still mainaining high speed.

That said, personally I think that you shouldn't put too many sites per server as so to limit server problems to as few clients as possible in the even that they happen. For for example instead of putting 500 or 1,000 sites per server, it might be a good idea to only put up 200. This is of course more expensive....

But you need to upgrade your memory.

It really depends on packages.

You can put one client on it though if you package is 36Gigs.

My 2 Cents.

Oh yea I agree though. Can't really start a host with less then 512Ram. Thats a must.

Thanks

>>Oh yea I agree though. Can't really start a host with less then 512Ram. Thats a must.

Sounds to me like Neo Net hasn't done much server administration in his day.

I want Neo3 to get that web site up so I can see the control panel ;)

You can't say. How much clients you can host on a certain server. Because it depends of the packages. and the users.

So which package is the user using? How much BW is each client using. Do they all run complex CGI/PERL/PHP scripts. so on.

Wou won't be able to prospect such a thing.

Stick a gig of ram in it, installed linux or freebsd and apache etc and your laughing.

Harddisk space isn't a problem, can allways stick another disk in there easy get thousand plus accounts.

I have been to a data centre when walking past a box (Raq4) the sales guy pointed it out to me as running 600 sites.

Im not sure if this is possible and not sure how small the plans were for this host but they only had 1 box and 600 customers /domains on it. It had good hdd space and ram but after that its still a raq.

i did not find out what Aussie company it was though, due to privacy the dc could not tell me, but due to the manner of my nature i had to ask the question...

Good luck

I don't wanna know the load / performance of that raq. My raq with only 30 clients was already running slower and slower.

And those were just normall sites.

theoretically you could do this:

server hdd space = 36000MB (36GB)
less OS files and other program files eg. 2000MB (2GB)
divide by your hosting space eg 100MB hosting

therefore = (36000 - 2000)/100
= 340 hosting customers

that's just a basic calculation (there are other ways of calculating). this calculation is done based on the specs that you've given. i don't think 256RAM tolerate that many customers!