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Re: [Sheflug] Shared hosting

Chris Johnson wrote:


If I get an ISP account where I have access to the whole box I can see how I
could (in theory) set up multiple accounts for clients each with their own
web space by pointing to their registered domains to the
/home/~username/http directory.  However I've not got my head around how I
could set up an email service so that each client still got their own email.
Is this /could this be particularly problematic for a newbie?
If you take your time, find a HOWTO or three, you should be fine.

It very much depends on what email software is running. If you run something like qmail, you can run virtual accounts, so that you can either direct emails to a mailbox for a real user or a virtual user.

I know other people are running exim/postfix/sendmail doing similar things, but if you fancy giving qmail a go, contact me off list if you want any help/advice/examples.

Are there any issues with apache and hosting multiple accounts on one
server?
That's pretty much the norm these days. One thing to bear in mind is that if you wish to host secure server accounts, you'd need an IP for each secure virtual host.

If you have a client who wants to run more than one site, you can point apache at:

/home/username/http/site1
/home/username/http/site2

or whatever.

You might also want to consider using suexec or cgiwrap to allow each client to run CGIs as their own UID.

Regards,

Jonathan

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