[l008com]

I only have one IP address form my ISP. I currently use a single Server for all my serving needs, including web servering, I use virtual hosts in apache and have 4 web sites running. I wanna ad a forum to one of those sites, but I don't want it to bog down the rest of the server if it gets tons of traffic (yes I'd rather just that site crawl) so I wanna run it on a seperate, old mac, running something like bsdppc. Is there a way apache on my main server can forward web traffic to an internal address for serving?

[Rainy Day]

Hmmm... You're asking about dynamic load balancing. Apache can do that, but i'm not sure if it can be done off a single external IP address. One would think it might be possible. At least now you know what to Google for.

Another way to distribute the load is run your web server on one box, and your database on another. That's certainly possible with PHP/MySQL, for example, and may be just as effective as what you're asking about. Something to ponder, anyhow.