Web Hosting - IPs, Quotas and Jails

Troy Settle troy at psknet.com
Mon Oct 24 08:56:29 PDT 2005


I have a server running FreeBSD 5.4.  It's a dual Xeon 2.8Ghz with 2GB 
of ram and a 4x36GB raid-5 array.  Pretty sweet machine.

On this machine, I've installed an administrative jail, which is running 
things like MySQL and phpMyAdmin.

There's a 2nd jail running PureFTPd with MySQL authentication and a bare 
Apache server with mod_vhost_alias.  All my simple/cheap hosting 
accounts are taken care of, they'll be automatically provisioned via my 
billing software.


Anyways, here's where I need some help.  I want to create a 3rd jail for 
Frontpage services.  FP doesn't have any built in quota support that 
I've seen, so I'll need to depend on file system quotas.  The problem 
with this, is that quotas do not seem to work in a jailed environment. 
Can anyone recommend a solution/workaround to this?

Finally, I want to be able to offer advanced web services that will 
allow the customer to have SSL certificates, operate virtual FTP 
servers, etc...  This requires that I have one IP per server, which 
means one jail per server.  Jails are fun, but somehow, I don't think 50 
jails would be fun.

Should I just throw in the towel on the idea of jails and do these 
things on the host itself or possibly another host, but without jails?


Thanks,

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   Troy Settle
   Pulaski Networks
   http://www.psknet.com
   866.477.5638


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