Maximum # of virtual hosts ?

What's the maximum number of virtual host accounts Apache can handle?

Hundreds? Thousands?

Is it strictly a cpu limitation?

Thanks,

Joe

Joe McGuckin wrote:

> What's the maximum number of virtual host accounts Apache can handle?
>
> Hundreds? Thousands?
>
> Is it strictly a cpu limitation?
>
> Thanks,

I saw one guy claiming 10k. I believe it's as much as your hardware can
handle as long as they're not all requiring secure certs.

joe@via.net (Joe McGuckin) wrote in message news:<248eb73d.0308261114.670f8d1e@posting.google. com>...
> What's the maximum number of virtual host accounts Apache can handle?
>
> Hundreds? Thousands?
>
> Is it strictly a cpu limitation?

If you use dynamic vhosting (with mod_rewrite or mod_vhost_alias) then
it really makes no difference how many. You could have millions if
you could fit them on the disk.

With standard vhosting, there is a linear lookup of the hosts, plus
each <virtualhost> block will require some memory for the apache
configuration structure. But I still think you wouldn't have any
problem doing thousands, if they don't get many requests.

Joshua.

Joe McGuckin schrieb:
> What's the maximum number of virtual host accounts Apache can handle?
>
> Hundreds? Thousands?
> ...


Hi,

if want to create individual access_log or error_log
files for each virtual host, your os will probably
limit the max to some hundreds.


Roger.