Hello, I am looking to set up a shell server providing apache, MySQL and mailman as well as standard shell features. For this I am going to need to limit my users usage of server resources so that they don't compromise the usage of others. Particularly, I am looking to limit disc usage across MySQL, mailman and of course normal files, bandwidth usage across ssh, sftp, httpd and anything else (e.g. wget), and memory/process usage to prevent one user hogging the server's capacity - all of this in a clean, low maintenance manner! Yes, it is a lot to ask, but I think Debian can do it, I just don't know how to make it.
1) Disc usage I can setup quotas to limit users to a certain amount of drive space quite easily, but how can I tie this to MySQL usage too? For example, if a user has a 1GB quota and uses 512MB for a database, they should then only be able to use 512MB for their home directory. 2) Bandwidth usage I get the impression from asking around that this is not at all going to be easy. I am thinking that simply limiting httpd and setting up a restrictive firewall to stop users binding their own servers would be an effective method assuming I can trust them not to upload huge files. However, does anyone know of a better way of limiting bandwidth globally? 3) Memory usage In my experience of using limited free shells this is not at all hard to do, I just don't know how. If you are interested in the background: this is to expand http://silentflame.com/ away from just a cPanel-based server to a proper 'geek server' that doesn't spend its valuable ram on hosting cPanel processes. cPanel does most of the above management automatically and I am seeking to replace that - it handles the issues above with MySQL and /home and all forms of traffic in one bandwidth limit. Any advice appreciated so that this project can go ahead. Thanks, Sean -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
