My understanding is that it was designed to handle the load of AOL back in the
day. There is clustering built into it and obviously AOL did use a custom
system.
When I really admin-ed it, we handled 10s of thousands of email accounts with
it on thousands of hosted domains. It just hummed along on OSX and FreeBSD.
Tandem, cool cool stuff.
ryan
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> On Jan 19, 2016, at 09:00, Bill Prince <part15...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The AOL email system ran on a network of Tandem NonStop systems back in the
> day. It was all custom at that time.
>
> I worked at Tandem at the time, and we had regular weekly shipments of
> machines going to AOL.
>
> I think the sales rep retired on the commissions.
>
> bp
> <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
>
>> On 1/19/2016 8:54 AM, Paul Stewart wrote:
>> It is a pretty slick system (and expensive) .. I never seen a communigate
>> pro system though that was scaled up. I'm assuming this 'spec' was for AOL
>> when they first started out back in the day? There's no way you can run a
>> system of that size on a single server ;)
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of D. Ryan Spott
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2016 11:13 AM
>> To: af@afmug.com
>> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Outsourced Email
>>
>> I believe the original spec for Communigate was to run all of AOLs email on
>> 1 server. I would believe it. Bomb proof.
>>
>> The Russian guy that does most of the code is a freaking genius.
>>
>> It is as expensive as Exchange but so stable you will never touch it.
>>
>> Reselling hosted domains is trivial. You can give admins for your hosted
>> domains full reign of their domain and never have to worry about them.
>>
>> Pretty cool stuff.
>>
>> ryan
>
