Hi,
I'm currently looking at getting some university sites I run swapped from default Drupal 7 on a LAMP stack to BOA. Our current file structure relies heavily on sub-folders, which I've only recently realized is not supported by Aegir.
The solution for us appears to be something like this:
*.ourdomain.com wildcard in DNS
*.ourdomain.com subdomains for each instructor site we'd create
So our sites would look something like this:
jones1.ourdomain.com
jones2.ourdomain.com
walker1.ourdomain.com
walker2.ourdomain.com
walker3.ourdomain.com
What I was wondering, and unaware of, is whether or not having a massive number of subdomains (we server around 100 instructors per semester) would be a resource drag on the server. I'm not sure/aware of how it affects Nginx and its performance.
Comments
The number of vhosts, or
The number of vhosts, or domains and subdomains used as aliases has no impact on the BOA performance, unless you will try to host thousands of them on some VPS with 256 MB RAM :) Hundreds of subdomains is not a "massive number" for BOA or Nginx, it is pretty low, so nothing to worry about, I think.
Ok, thanks! I just wanted to
Ok, thanks! I just wanted to make sure before I went through the steps of rethinking our sites directory structure.