Web Hosting - IPs, Quotas and Jails

From: Troy Settle (troy_at_psknet.com)
Date: 10/24/05

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    Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 11:56:22 -0400
To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org

    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, 

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