Web Hosting - IPs, Quotas and Jails

[Mark Bucciarelli]

On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 09:36:20PM +0100, Brian Candler wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 11:56:22AM -0400, Troy Settle wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> I believe you can use the same jail directory structure bound to
> different IPs; just run 'jail' multiple times. You'll just need to
> take care if running the same daemon multiple times; each instance
> will need to be told to write to a different pid file, and will need
> a different config file (otherwise there wouldn't be any point having
> multiple instances)

There is a patch to support multiple ip's inside a jail.

Google for the mijail patch.

m