Number of sites?

 >Somebody know how many sites is posible defined in IIS?
 >There are a recommendable number of sites, for a good operation?



I think the answer to that depends on what kind of traffic the sites
are generating. I wrote a script that ran and created sites in IIS. I
made over 5,000 sites. They weren't running, this was a development
server, but it is physically possible to create over 5,000 sites in
IIS5.0


Now, if the sites you are running in production are high volume sites
your server will pay the price. I manage one server that generates
about 80 gigs of traffic a month. The processor is around 5 to 30 %
average. The server has a 2.5 gig processor and a gig of ram.

These are not high volume sites. No MSSQL on the server or for any of
the sites.

You could effectively have two sites on a single server and depending
on the traffic that could be one too many.

I guess what you could say is the number of sites is inversely
proportional to the traffic they generate. The more the traffic the
less number of sites. The less traffic generated the more sites you
can place on the box. This would be true for any hardware really. For
higher powered hardware the numbers are simply bigger.

Now, this doesn't take into consideration the behavior of the sites.
That's a whole nother issue.


John Cesta

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On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 10:56:07 +0200, "josep LR"
<serveitecniclr.DeleteThis@terra.es> wrote:

 >Greatings,
 >
 >Somebody know how many sites is posible defined in IIS?
 >There are a recommendable number of sites, for a good operation?
 >
 >thanks.
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 >> Stay informed about: Number of sites? 

Completely depends on what the site will do. Calling vb or vc com objects? OOP? Dedicated IP or sharing? You would have to test for
your scenario, but we have tested simple sites up in the thousands.

Thank you. I hope this information is helpful.

Tim Coffey [MSFT]

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