Search Again: Re: Can I host 7500 domains? From: Men & Mice Support Date: Tuesday, July 11, 2000 Time: 9:20:39 am > >o QuickDNS Pro Server scans the Primary Data folder once a minute > >looking for new and newly modified files. With 7500 files, that's a > >lot of scanning - make sure you have a fast hard drive and set the > >disk cache (in the Memory control panel) pretty high. > >It seems quite inefficient for QDNS to do this. Is it possible to >disable this feature? Is there really a reason to be scanning every >minute for changes? We typically do our changes/updates twice a day, and >issue restarts twice a day after the updates occur. It is a pretty nice >feature having QDNS do this itself but again, it seems inefficient as you >begin to deal with several thousand domains. This has already been discussed extensively on WebSTAR Talk. Here's the highlights: o The actual scan is pretty quick. o QuickDNS spends processing power comparing modification dates, though. It's not possible to disable this in the preferences. I'm not sure if it can be done using ResEdit. This actually has little effect on performance, because the comparison is not done at interrupt time, but answering DNS queries is. > >o Administration. The Primary Domains palette in QuickDNS Pro Admin > >may be a bit slow for you. So you may find yourself wanting to use > >either the File/Open dialog or the Finder directly to open a zone > >file; unfortunately, these methods are also likely to be slow. > >This is of another concern to us as well. We have noted that once you >get past about 1000 domains in QDNS the admin is extremely cumbersome and >slow. Just opening a zone file with the admin can take a extraordinary >amount of time. Will new versions of QDNS improve on this? The slowness will be dealt with in the next version. Do you have any specific feature requests for the interface? Any specific problems with the current one? I understand that, in addition to being slow, the current version's linear list of zones is not great when you have large numbers of them, but what would you substitute (or add) to make it better? ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton cbuxton@menandmice.com Men & Mice http://www.menandmice.com Makers of: QuickDNS Pro

Messages In This Thread: Re: Can I host 7500 domains? by Men & Mice Support on Jul 11, 2000 at 9:20:39 am Re: Can I host 7500 domains? by David M. Dantowitz on Jul 11, 2000 at 9:49:31 am Re: Can I host 7500 domains? by Men & Mice Support on Jul 11, 2000 at 9:55:12 am Re: Can I host 7500 domains? by Global Homes Webmaster on Jul 11, 2000 at 10:06:52 am Re: Can I host 7500 domains? by David M. Dantowitz on Jul 11, 2000 at 10:12:23 am Re: Can I host 7500 domains? by Men & Mice Support on Jul 11, 2000 at 10:21:14 am Re: Can I host 7500 domains? by Global Homes Webmaster on Jul 11, 2000 at 10:29:34 am Re: Can I host 7500 domains? by Caio James on Jul 11, 2000 at 11:03:52 am Re: Can I host 7500 domains? by Men & Mice Support on Jul 11, 2000 at 5:37:34 pm