WampServer

Hi all.

Couple questions.

1. Is it ok to run wamp on my home server for hosting live websites? I have a server I built HTPC that is running 24/7.

2. I have my website hosted from wamp right now www.websitefix.net and I would like to host many more. I have tried a few different ways that I have read on the net and I can't get it working. Thanks for any help.

3. Also my domains are hosted at godady. Do i just point to my IP for both domains that I have? I have a static IP.


Windows 7 server
Wamp 2.5 32bit

It is possible, but it is not a sensible idea.

Windows 7 is a Desktop OS and as such is not configured to handle the number of connections required to server multiple websites. It can support only 20 concurrent connections.

So a single busy website will soon experience a connection shortage.

You need a Server OS if you wish to host multiple websites successfully. I would leave them where they are.

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20 is more then I would host. Why is it not a sensible idea?

So how would I setup more then one site?

Thanks

I repeat, not on a Windows Desktop system.

Thats 20 connections IN TOTAL, all shared between X webservers. A browser normally uses between 2 and 8 connections for each page download. Modern browsers tend to use between 4 and 8 connections per page download. So thats 5 users at any one time before Windows runs out of connections and starts ignoring connections.

Unless your sites are hardly ever used that would cause users a problem if more than a few users were active at any one time.

This tells you how to setup Virtual Hosts which is what you would need to do. [forum.wampserver.com]

This is a great idea for developing multiple sites on one system.

If you are going to go ahead with this, please dont come back for help when you find you have problems.

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(Windows 10 Pro 64bit) (Wampserver 3.3.4 64bit) Aestan Tray Menu 3.2.5.4
<Apache versions MULTIPE> <PHP versions MULTIPLE> <MySQL Versions MULTIPLE>
<MariaDB versions MULTIPLE> <phpMyAdmin versions MULTIPLE> <MySQL Workbench 8.0.23>
Read The Manuals Apache -- MySQL -- PHP -- phpMyAdmin
Get your Apache/MySQL/mariaDB/PHP ADDONs here from the WAMPServer alternate Repo
-X-X-X- Backup your databases regularly Here is How dont regret it later! Yes even when developing -X-X-X-