Rate Limit Certain Web Sites

[hc_andy]

Hi...

Is there a way to rate limit a web site on the box? For example we have web site and every Wed, lots users download podcasts from it which kills the HTTP service because it reaches its maximum client limit. We bumped it up from 150 to 200.

# prefork MPM
MaxClients 200

# worker MPM
MaxClients 200

And the maximum was still being reached. We then bumped it to 250 and that's when the box died because it ran out of memory.

So I was wondering if Plesk comes with any tools to rate limit the throughput for a particular web site, say web site xyx.com.au can only have 5Mbits in/out. Or is there a better way to manage the MaxClients ?

We're running RHEL3 and plesk 8.2

thanks.

Andy