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[Deny]

What you think what is optimal number of sites to be hosted on server Intel Dual Xeon 2.8ghz HyperThreading (HT) with Memory: 3072 MB DDR (3GB) ECC System Memory for shared hosting?

Thanks

[leckley]

As with any server setup to be used for web hosting you can not put a number on how many sites any one server can hold. As the number of clients a server box can hold all depends what kind of sites are on it, how you manage it, your control panel and so much more.

Though, in my best educated guess. I you add nice SCSI drive array to that server you could host roughly 500 sites without an issue, however if you have ones with large mysql resources or need much server resources, you may only fit 100 on there. It can also go the other way, have allot of html web sites with no databases you could probably push 800 or more sites.

It all depends what kind of sites and how you manage the server.


Lane

[Hastings]

As with any server, it's hard to say. Do you have any other services than hosting on it? How much traffic and space will each person use? there's aspects that there's no way to know. I have a dual xeon 2.8 w/ 2GB ram and dual 160's on it - So far we have about 40 SHOUTcasts (which are very hard on the ram) and about 100 sites, and its just barley starting to lag. Xeons are awesome for web and stream hosting.

[lnxcode]

that really depends on the server's performance under load. You could have 1 customer on the box and it be crashing all the time...