using dsl corprately
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Topic: using dsl corprately
started by: sega01
Posted by sega01 on May 27 2005,15:21
the company that my dad works for wants to possibly replace one of their servers running fedora core 1 with dsl, but dsl needs to meet a few rather hefty requirements...
could a dsl server handle over 2 million hits per month?
how easy would it be to update applications, and add patches?
how secure is dsl?
thanks
Posted by cbagger01 on May 27 2005,16:32
DSL can be used as a server just like any other linux system.
However, my advice for running an "updatable" server is to set up a true Debian system that can be "upgraded" as a distro with apt-get.
If you don't want to install Debian from scrach, you can always find a debian server distro or even install KNOPPIX to hard drive (do a true Debian install) and then remove all of the extra crap via apt-get remove.
Because DSL uses non-standard installs, specifically in the area of the x-server (KDrive/TinyX/Freedesktop.org instead of Xfree86 or XOrg), you cannot upgrade your DSL dist via apt-get upgrade
Finally, for 2 million hits /month I would use Apache + addons instead of Monkey for the HTTP server.
Apache is the right tool for that job.
Posted by AwPhuch on May 27 2005,17:53
| Quote (cbagger01 @ May 27 2005,12:32) | DSL can be used as a server just like any other linux system.
However, my advice for running an "updatable" server is to set up a true Debian system that can be "upgraded" as a distro with apt-get.
If you don't want to install Debian from scrach, you can always find a debian server distro or even install KNOPPIX to hard drive (do a true Debian install) and then remove all of the extra crap via apt-get remove.
Because DSL uses non-standard installs, specifically in the area of the x-server (KDrive/TinyX/Freedesktop.org instead of Xfree86 or XOrg), you cannot upgrade your DSL dist via apt-get upgrade
Finally, for 2 million hits /month I would use Apache + addons instead of Monkey for the HTTP server.
Apache is the right tool for that job. |
Doing a HD install and using synaptic would work
You could download apache and all needed plugins with that
If all else fails use < ClarkConnect > or < The SME Server > or practically any server distro from < Linuxiso.org >
It probably wouldnt be too hard to setup a decent webserver...2million hits a month isnt too bad, thats a decent sized webhosting company...(hell my home connection got over 9k hits in a day (serving small stuff, non-php or whatever) that was a bad bandwidth day let me tell ya!!!!)
If you do a minimum install of Fedora and use Webmin to administer it it shouldn't be hard at all...
| Quote | Monthly Statistics for May 2005
Total Hits 69576
Total Files 42308
Total Pages 7648
Total Visits 4261
Total KBytes 3724989
Total Unique Sites 14149
Total Unique URLs 2316
Total Unique Referrers 643
Total Unique User Agents 1164
. Avg Max
Hits per Hour 107 617
Hits per Day 2576 3440
Files per Day 1566 2149
Pages per Day 283 554
Visits per Day 157 450
KBytes per Day 137963 1461432
Hits by Response Code
Code 200 - OK 42308
Code 206 - Partial Content 224
Code 301 - Moved Permanently 442
Code 302 - Found 39
Code 304 - Not Modified 21849
Code 400 - Bad Request 5
Code 404 - Not Found 4708
Code 405 - Method Not Allowed 1
Summary by Month
Month Daily Avg Monthly Totals
Hits Files Pages Visits Sites KBytes Visits Pages Files Hits
May 2005 2576 1566 283 157 14149 3724989 4261 7648 42308 69576
Apr 2005 2776 1824 224 110 18642 5046135 3322 6740 54726 83288
Mar 2005 3047 1979 292 66 18059 7470308 2053 9061 61351 94469
Feb 2005 2678 1670 189 66 14996 5726971 1867 5318 46774 75009
Jan 2005 3577 2182 323 53 17879 17672629 1648 10034 67659 110914
Dec 2004 5342 3133 702 64 17584 26878775 2007 21771 97140 165626
Nov 2004 2956 1781 216 48 16670 5211748 1452 6489 53446 88684
Oct 2004 2685 1681 315 25 15465 9532957 783 9795 52129 83249
Sep 2004 2453 1466 77 15 2733 719731 79 386 7334 12265
Totals 81984243 17472 77242 482867 783080 |
Thats my monthly from my home server!!!
Brian
AwPhuch
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