How many websites can my server potentially hold?

Posted by Daniel Kindler on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Daniel Kindler
Published on 2011-01-10T21:58:18Z Indexed on 2011/01/10 23:55 UTC
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Sorry for the "noob" question, but...

About how many medium-sized websites with average traffic could this server hold? Just like the average website, kind of like a small business site. How many sites could this server hold, but still maintain nice, decent speed?

PowerEdge R510 PE R510 Chassis for Up to Four 3.5" Cabled Hard Drives, LED edit

Processor Intel® Xeon® E5630 2.53Ghz, 12M Cache,Turbo, HT, 1066MHz Max Mem edit

Memory 8GB Memory (4x2GB), 1333MHz Single Ranked UDIMMs for 1 Procs, Optimized edit

Operating System SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10, SP3, Up To 32 CPU Lic, 1 YR Sub, DIB, Media edit Red Hat Enterprise Linux Licensing

Hard Drives 250GB 7.2K RPM SATA 3.5" Cabled Hard Drive edit

Hard Drives 1TB 7.2K RPM SATA 3.5" Cabled Hard Drive edit

Hard Drives 2 X 2TB 7.2K RPM SATA 3.5in Cabled Hard Drive

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