Can anyone shed light on Processes

hi guys. im creating a reseller.

and i can host windows, linux and VPS (virtual Private Servers).

can anyone help me out with some questions.

1. it has 128 mb  of ram alowance. (i do - Reseller host)

and am allowed 20 processes (i do - reseller host)

now what are processes.

and what effect does having xx mb of ram on an account make.

i know my way round windows and Linux. but VPS baffles me a bit.

can anyone shed any light/ useful info on it

cheers in advanced

michael wrote: Depending on how you setup IIS, let's take Windows 2003 for example. You can have an App Pool for every site, and that means "theoretically" every site would have one worker process. now 20 sites sharing 128MB is very low if there are database operations of any significant size involved.

Just expanding a little: each site would have a seperate thread on the worker process which will store session and application level vars etc.

yea it was hsphere .. its on linux

ive got 64Mb of ram to start with and 10 proceeses

im not sure to use it.. i was just thinking as im going to be do linux/Apache and windows packages.

i thought i would look inot it.

dpyers wrote: I do the reseller thing with hsphere. The cp I use runs on redhat, but the plans are on bsd/win boxes. Always found vps to be more useful for the unix world than the windows mostly due to ssh and ftp/subftp logins but ymmv.

yea mine is set up via hsphere. but to the client it is a bare bone.. but can add webmin to their accouints for CP.

not sure if the host allows SSH, there oen packages (don't allow it). but i might be abl eto enable it. got ftp/sun accounts.. etc.