Re: Maximum subwebs on Windows 2003/IIS6 web server

From: Kristofer Gafvert (kgafvert_at_NEWSilopia.com)
Date: 03/26/04 

Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 23:54:31 +0100

IIS 5.0 had some kind of limit (or were not recommended to run) of 5000
websites.

(
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/technologies/iis/downloads/shsover.mspx )

IIS 6.0 should not have this.

I have not tried running this many websites on a single server, so i cannot
talk by experience. But the documentation says that it should work :-)

You can ask this in the newsgroup public.inetserver.iis also if you want,
and maybe someone else can give you a better answer. But you will probably
get someting like what i have already said. 

-- 
Regards,
Kristofer Gafvert - IIS MVP
Reply to newsgroup only. Remove NEWS if you must reply by email, but please
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"Dan" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:B3285652-6851-4D9D-A9B8-40C961E5AEA2@microsoft.com...
> So, assuming our server farm is robust enough (I think it is) and we have
ample disk storage (SAN-attached with room to grow) we likely won't
encounter any limitations with subwebs numbering in the thousands as far as
the platform is concerned?  The reason I ask is that we have been told by
others that hosting more than 500 subwebs under a single VS is asking for
trouble.  However, in my opinion, 500 is pitifully low threshold for a
supposed enterprise-level OS platform like win2003/IIS6.
>
> I appreciate your response!
>
>      ----- Kristofer Gafvert wrote: -----
>
>      You will most likely reach a limitation in hardware (that is, your
machine
>      is not good enough to host all websites), before you hit a limitation
in
>      IIS/Windows Server 2003.
>
>      -- 
>      Regards,
>      Kristofer Gafvert - IIS MVP
>      Reply to newsgroup only. Remove NEWS if you must reply by email, but
please
>      do not.
>      www.ilopia.com - FAQ and Tutorials for Windows Server 2003
>
>
>      "Dan" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>      news:B0DA4B7E-3AFE-4417-AE31-83ACA421C035@microsoft.com...
>      > Background: I work at a large public university and we want to use
use
>      subwebs for hosting individual student web accounts under a single
Virtual
>      Server.  The platform is Windows 2003/IIS6 w/FrontPage Extensions
with a
>      single Virtual Server as this setup would make it easy to place the
subwebs
>      under a single, common URL name-space.  This deployment will result
in
>      setting up potentially thousands of subwebs so I was wondering if
there is
>      any limitation to the number of subwebs that can be hosted under one
Virtual
>      Server.
>
>
>

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