Technically you can host as many servers as you want on any server. It is just the matter of load that the server is able to withstand. A stupid old celeron server cannot handle 1000 dynamic sites while it will handle upto 2500 static sites with ease. When your requirement for processing increases, you naturally need to upgrade your server.

Certain datacentres support upgrade of motherboards and processors alone, and you can retain the same IP and the hard drives that you would have been using earlier, while other datacentres ask you to do a complete migration.

When your demand for load increases, it is advisable that you go for the best server that is available in the market, and put it as many processors as possible onto one server, stick in as many hard drives as possible, and use it. Linux can handle multile hard drives easily, while Windows control panels cannot. You will have to use Raid.

But when you have all sites on one server, which is a lot difficult to manage than having them on different servers, how do you manage the load? Even if one site overloads the database engine, all sites hosted on the servers could go down. So why not use multiple servers? Well, I ask, why not virtualize your monster server itself?

Get a VPS license for about 10 nodes, and virtualize your server, and split them into 10 induvidual servers, and allocate resources accordingly and split low resource consuming sites, dynamic sites and overloading sites seperately.

The cost of operation will naturally be a bit high, but compared to the quality of service that you provide to your clients, and the cost of maintaining individual servers seperately, this idea is a lot better. And, you have all under one roof, and the admin can access all files and folders with his root acess.

This is a good idea for all linux servers, while I cannot recommend it for windows. Infact, I dont recommend anything for Windows at all.

Have you got a server or a vps? Are you running a reseller hosting business? Or just sharing servers with your firends while you are administering the server? Well, I have got 1 good piece of advise for you. Never give SSH access in linux, or Remote Desktop access for windows for your reseller account holders.

Why?

Though their access might be restricted, you are literally giving them previlleges to download and install scripts on the server. They cant do that can they? You manage the server for them, and if they do something irresponsible, it would become your headache to get it fixed, and if they do something that affects your other clients? They will hold you responsible.

When in remote desktop, they can access the browser, and if they use it for some illegal activity, like using fake credit cards or stolen card numbers from your server on some site for some server or buy things, your server’s ips get recorded, and if there is a dispute, not only your server will be suspended, you will become responsible for the transactions that happen.

And if the client installs a mass mailing software on the remote desktop and uses it, your ip gets blacklisted.

There are several other things that could happen. Never give out Remote Desktop or SSH access to any client or reseller. You can always fix this limitation on your control panel when you create the account.

This is a common problem. In cPanel/WHM, you can limit the number of mails that can be sent from a domain in an hour. In windows or plesk, you cant do that. Windows 2003 is not a server operating system you know, it is just more of a secured (or so called) PC. You cant expect any features in it.

Though you can set limitations in the number of mails send per domain, spammers get hold of scripts that clients use in their websites to send mails, and spam the hell out of your server. And your server just stops working. Or, if your server is powerful enough, your mails just stop working.

Whats the best way to prevent that from happening? Use google’s google apps. The free email service for your jenifaa-sakura domain name.

When you create hosting, make your settings in such a way that the mx record that is created for each domain is set to google’s. When your client gets the hosting, ask him to sign up at google.com/a and get his mail box. There he will have no limitations of mails or mail ids or anything. And there is no way that your IP gets blacklisted.

And google has a great system that they dont let people abuse their systems easily. It is a neat system.

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