RE: Partitioning a Web Server
Start at /var as 1 gig, this should prove adequate for most things. I assume
/var/www will be your document root? think of space towards this unless your
putting the domains into /home/
Is there lots of mail? 3 gig is probably a fair start for /var/spool/mail
I am not aware /var/lib changes much so 1 gig seems heaps.
there will be logs so /var/log could be seperate as well, say 3 gig.
regards
S
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Bucciarelli [mailto:mark@easymailings.com]
Sent: Thursday, 3 April 2003 3:30
To: debian-isp@lists.debian.org
Subject: Partitioning a Web Server
I'm going to be setting up a web server this Friday, and I'm trying to
work out how to partition the disk. The plan is to use apache
mod_v_host to serve up to 50 domains and will also be an email
server. PHP + MySQL also. It's expected that most of the domains
will be small fry, probably most of the usage (disk + bandwidth) will
be the email.
First, the box is a 60G 10,000 RPM disk PIII 750MHz, 512MB RAM. Does
this sound reasonable?
I have a couple things I need to decide: (1) what partitions to define
and (2) what sizes to make them.
For example, one document I read suggested creating a seperate
partition for /var/spool/mail and /var/lib. I'm a bit nervous that
if I guess wrong then I'll be screwed when the partition fills up.
I'm not going to mess around with LVM.
So, what's a good rule of thumb for how much space to save for emails,
for, say, 50 domains, each with say five addresses? Ball park, say
+/- 1G.
Is it better to break up /var into different partitions or leave it
all as one?
Thanks for any pointers!
Mark
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