Virtual Hosting Environment?

Hello Everyone, I'm RD West from South Carolina! I purchased a 24" iMac nad really like working on it with dreamweaver & photoshop for design and development. Now 2 weeks ago, I had to have the new 27" iMac with the i7 Quad Core - Its a power house! LoveIt!
So I went a step further and got the mac mini server with OS X Server 10.6.5 a few days ago...
After several reinstalls, watching video tutorials from Lynda.com, I have managed to get a standalone server up with dns, web, email, mysql/php for local domain. What a nightmare I had
I run FreeBSD when I first started hosting over 10 years ago I guess, moved to windows, trashed all windows and went with Gentoo Linux for a long time. Then when my client base grew, I switched to CentOS/DirectAdmin CP for quick reinstalls if disaster happens...
I want to have my company network on OS X server now and do virtual hosting but I am confused at workgroup manager.
The first install and first site which is the local site but I am on the front wire to the net I go in workgroup manager and add a new user and turn on mail and save - this creates a [email protected].. then user2, user3 etc...
What kind of mess will I have with 100+ sites?
What I need is some documentation of adding new virtual hosts and setting up mail accounts?
Can someone provide me links or docs with the best way to accomplish virtual hosting?
Thanks,
RD

What kind of mess will I have with 100+ sites?
a big one
What I need is some documentation of adding new virtual hosts and setting up mail accounts?
Can someone provide me links or docs with the best way to accomplish virtual hosting?
Starts with the apple manuals... they do detail mail and web virtual hosting.
Also review this:
http://downloads.topicdesk.com/docs/MakingVirtual_Mail_Users_in_OS_XServer.pdf
that said.. you are going to have a hard time duplicating the functionality you have with your existing setup... OS X Server isn't particularly well suited as an ISP virtual hosting platform... the GUI tools only get you part of the way, then you are stuck with command-line and you'll wish you had CP back.

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