Well, I heard that Raq3 do have a 250 sites limit.

Is that limit only for IP-Based or Name-Based?

Is it true that Name-Based site can only have one ftp account? And if I want to add more, I need to make it IP-Based?

What else that IP-Based can do and Name-Based cannot?

Name based sites can have more than one FTP account (user account). You cannot set up mutliple secure certs. on one IP address, ummm, what else?

hmmm, I would not put 250 sites on a server.
With more than 100/150, depending on the sites size and usage the server get slooow.

Here you will find more info:

http://webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?threadid=4557

http://webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?threadid=4479

Also check the cobalt mailing list
http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-users

Originally posted by Chicken
Name based sites can have more than one FTP account (user account). You cannot set up mutliple secure certs. on one IP address, ummm, what else?
You cannot also have multiple anonymous FTP server on 1 IP.

I as well would not recommend more than 150-175 domains 1 one RAQ... and that raq would be 512 ram.

You could put more if they were all low-usage domains, but unless it is all your sites, it is rarely the case.

I would agree 150 on a RaQ 3 is about ideal. I know someone that is running 200 sites on a RaQ 4i loaded with RAM and is not had any problems.

Well, I think that some of the concerns here aren't specifically for hosting domains, but more for setting up parked domains. At least I assume this since if you read *anyhthing* *anywhere* about RaQs, there are warnings about overloading them.

How about Popmail accounts?

Errrr.... how about em? Don't need a dedicated IP to make a POP either.

I meant... Can I make plenty popmail accounts on a Name-Based site?

BTW, how many ftp accounts I can make for a Name-Based account?

You can make plenty, and plenty of FTp accounts as well -and NOTE: they are closely related in this case!

Unless an update has changed something, you need to set a new user with a minimum of 1MB (added through the control panel to any virtual site). So your only real limitation is that if you have a 5MB site, you can only add up to 5 users (and this means FTP accounts as well).

OK, so what's the verdict with the RAQ:

1) You can only set up 250 IP-Based domains on it.

2) You can setup unlimited (or as many as it will take) Name-Based domains.

Is this correct???

I think you have to also ask which version of the RaQ you want to use. I know for a fact the RaQ 4 can handle 250 IP sites and unlimited name based sites. As for the RaQ 3 I'm not so sure.

Originally posted by jabweb
I think you have to also ask which version of the RaQ you want to use. I know for a fact the RaQ 4 can handle 250 IP sites and unlimited name based sites. As for the RaQ 3 I'm not so sure.

Can anyone clarify if the RAQ3 can do the same??

Anyone? :D

I would say most likely yes.

I beleive the RAQ3 came with doc saying it was unlimited on virtual domains. However I never reached this 'unlimited' because at around 150 domains, the server starts to melt down :D

Originally posted by Félix C.Courtemanche
However I never reached this 'unlimited' because at around 150 domains, the server starts to melt down :D

Even with accounts that have little to NO activity??

No, he's talking about active sites, but the software might not be too good at handling that many records regardless (I really don't know, and it might be a good idea to post the question to the mailing list).

Cool, thanks chicken! Now, if I could only find a good backup solution for the RAQ3 :)

Tell us when you found it :)

We will be glad to know it.

Wish you luck~~~

O.k. I did it. 250 domains setted up on my new RAQ3 at 4webspace. I wanted to proceed but it won´t let me :(

I can go to the virtual site setup form and fill it out, and it seems to work, but after confirming it says "for performance reasons limited to 250 sites"...

Finally I got it: When I assign the Servers main IP (the one 4 webspace gave me) to domains from #251 on it works. But when I tried it with one of the 64 additional IP´s it didn´t work. I was wondering what exactly the difference between name and IP based was (since the IP based ones also share IP´s in my case - like 7 domans on each IP) :)

So, more than 250 is possible.

90% of all my domains are setup with name-based virtual account. There is little to no reason to use unique ip's for each account. There are a couple of exceptions like setting up a secure server, multiple ftp accounts per domain (using proftp), and a couple others. 90% of my clients do not use these features. If a client of mine did require any of the above, I would gladly assign him/her a unique ip.