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hi again,
In the middle of upgrading a number of servers so lots of issues coming
to light:
1/ Is there any guideline for the max number of virtual hosts per
server?. I know server spec will have a lot to do with it but lets say
its a g4 with 512mb ram and 8 gb internal drive. These are dedicated
Apache servers so no DNS, mail or workstation apps running. Squid is
disabled too. At the moment I have a number of these servers running
about 40-50 sites each. The older version of iTools has been behaving
oddly for a number of weeks so going to bite the bullet and move on up
to 6.1 on 10.0.4. Each server averages about 100K hits a day across the
50 sites.
In an ideal world I would like to think I could safely run 100 sites per
server, is this realistic?
2/ I have a G4 server with iTools 6.0 on 10.0.4. It is configured to run
customer JSP's with Tomcat and also PHP scripts. If I run the iTools 6.1
installer as per the release notes, will i lose all my configuration
data? (tomcat config, apache config, user database etc).
3/ To upgrade from OS X Server (old version) to 10.0.4 I need to rebuild
the OS from scratch, erasing the hard disk. With a moderate number of
sites on the server and customer SLA's I can't back up the sites,
install and restore. I have to temporarily relocate the sites onto
another iTools server, do the install and move them back again. While
this is messy (needs DNS changes with propagation delays on both sides
of the move) it should work. Are there any shortcuts I should be aware
of?
4/ Finally, we are about to introduce a centralised backup server on the
network (mixed with NT, Win2k, OSX, Linux). We will most likely be using
a high speed DLT drive and ArcServeIT with appropriate agents. As no
agent exists for OSX we will tar up the correct directories and FTP'em
over to a Win2K server on a cron job. Am I correct in assuming the
directories to be tar'd are:
/Library/WebServer
/private/etc/httpd
In a disaster recovery scenario I should be able to clean install OSX
and iTools onto the repaired server (same network config) and simply
replace the directories with the ones from above?
Lots of questions but I think the answers could be useful to others,
thanks again,
dave.
Dave Reddy
Weblink Internet Ltd.
5 Fitzwilliam Place, Dublin 2, Ireland.
T: +353 1 250 0000 F: +353 1 250 0099 DDI:+353 1 250 00 33
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