Web Hosting Talk : Web Hosting Main Forums : Hosting Security and Technology : Building big cPanel server - how many accounts?

[rykoala]

I have experience hosting ~300 accounts on cPanel servers with 2GB ram, 3.0Ghz P4 processors and 200GB drives. It works pretty good, although I'm still working on optimization. I'm looking to step it up a notch. I'm currently looking at buying:
Dual Xeon 3.4ghz
4GB ECC RAM
3.2TB usable storage

Software:
Fedora Core 2 OS
cPanel

Disk space won't be an issue, I can manage that. But how many hosting accounts can I expect to handle? Figure light to moderate use websites, with 20 pop accounts each used. I am just trying to count the cost of buying this server with that much storage.

What are others getting with similar hardware?

Thanks for any suggestions.

[rghf]

Honestly it sounds like total overkill with that much storage but I figure 400-600 resonable size accounts but it is "How long is a piece of string question"

Rus

[rykoala]

Well the idea is to give each customer 10GB of space. What kind of hardware would be needed to handle ~2000 cpanel accounts?

[rghf]

You really want to go for multiple servers for that. I suppose you would be looking at Quad Opterons with Dual Core, 16GB RAm, Very fast disk subsystem..

Multiple servers will give you a lot less headaches