Dual sites on home server running apache?

[Mike AA]

Originally Posted by Dave Flowerday

What you need is the NameVirtualHost directive. It will let Apache answer requests for both sites at the same IP address by looking at the URL which the browser sent. That way you won't even have to redirect people to your other site.

P.S. Another Holland-area team? Sweet!

Thanks, I beleive thats what i'm looking for. I'll be testing it in a minute to actually check it, just stopped by here to check for suggestions.

Yes, it is Another Holland-area team, basicly my family has been involved since I started back in '99 and we thought we would give another HS a chance, since they were left out of everything else.

Originally Posted by Venkatesh

Also, that is some pretty substantial hardware firepower for running Apache. I have done a lot of performance testing with Apache for Windows and IIS 5.0. Barring heavy CGI/dynamic work, that server of yours will be able to handle an incredible load. On a Pentium 166mhz, 64MB ram, 4gb hard disk, I was able to handle 9 requests/sec under Apache 1.3.31, 414 requests/sec with Apache 2.0.50, and 434 with IIS 5.1, with a static, 1kb text page. Yes, that massive jump from Apache 1.3.31 to 2.0.50 is correct. The numbers here are averages of 8 trials, with the cache cleared between trials. I got that system to stay up for a maximum of 129 days, before lightning took out the power here.

I originally built the system to be used as a dial-up ISP, but after getting everything setup and finding a sDSL provider I found out the equipment to actually do it (the dial-up isp part)was a little too expensive for me. So instead I decided to put it to use with websites. This is also a computer which I store backups of music and videos. Between my 4 computers I have nearly 1/2 TB but plan to put an additional 1-2 on my server. I would kinda like to help as a backup for soap's files, err a mirror if I can get it setup with them. I would easily have the processor power, and after I upgrade my sDSL one step I'll have the bandwidth. I havent tested my server as to what it'll do on apache but i'm sure it would be fairly good.

Thanks for the info.