Forum OpenACS Q&A: Re: Virtual Hosting with ACS/AOLServer

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Posted by Don Baccus on
Well, AOLserver4 gives you quite a few options when you choose to virtually host in regard to how memory and threads are shared between the various sites being run.  So you should be able to run a bunch of sites more efficiently using AOLserver4 virtual hosting than with separate instances.

But restart time would be an issue, as mentioned above.  You may or may not care ... my personal sites only go down every few months  and if it takes a few minutes to restart, so be it.  But high-volume commercial sites are a different story (then again, you're probably not going to virtual host busy sites on one box anyway).

The alternative, multiple AOLserver instances with virtual hosting handled upstream, is potentially more expensive in the use of resources by AOLserver but is more flexible.

OpenACS works fine virtual hosted within AOLserver.