Paris (and others), I like the optimistic tone of your message. It brings me hope that I might actually be able to pull this off. I was thinking along the same lines that a distributed solution with a powerful piece of mailing software would probably be the best idea. Plus of course, distributing the physical machines across multiple networks.
If I get the chance to build this, I'm sure I'll be back to ask more questions and also to share my observations as I develop the system. If I don't get the chance, I'll post the offer here for anybody else who is interested. ---mark ======================================================== Mark Warrick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Founder, Fusioneers.com / CTO, ZapConnect.com Phone: 714-547-5386 / 714-667-0203 / Efax: 801-730-7289 http://www.warrick.net / http://www.fusioneers.com http://www.zapconnect.com ICQ: 125160 AIM: markwarric Yahoo: Serengeti ======================================================== > -----Original Message----- > From: Paris Lundis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 3:32 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: 4 million messages per hour - is it possible? > > > holly cow... 4 million geez... I am not asking who this is for.. that's a > gross amount of emails... > > First off, I haven't created such a tool... > > Let's talk about theory here... > > With CF you can expect how many simultaneous pages per second performance > wise? 50-100 on a nice box with tight code.. optimization, etc... > > so let's be optimistic... 100 x 60 seconds = 6000 messages per minute > 6000 per min * 60 minutes = 360,0000 messages per hour... per box... > > that's about 6 times the spool limit.. which is about 65k files... > putting that aside... > > you need about 10-15 servers essentially with a distributed cooperative > pooling mechanism to handle this... ideally... > > You also need a damn fast DNS or multiple local servers to reduce lookup > times... > > Ideally, if you scrap the mail server need (which would be expensive, > clogged, nightmare) and utilized a CF friendly mail server like iMS and > ripped the mailing to a giant database table... had a scheduled event > whereby each machine grabbed a range, worked it and recorded status errors > etc to database and purged valid already mailed stuff or put in another > table.. and talked maybe directly SMTP versus the need of a server well > then it would be doable... recommend MySQL here... cheap and damn fast.... > > but with the machines I mentioned... you might also need some > good bandwidth > considering the volume of mail and the potential size of the emails > themselves... > > That's my input... > > -paris > Paris Lundis > Founder > Areaindex, L.L.C. > http://www.areaindex.com > http://www.pubcrawler.com > (p) 1-212-655-4477 > [finding the future in the past, passing the future in the present] > [connecting people, places and things] > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Warrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 6:15 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: 4 million messages per hour - is it possible? > > > Hello, > > Has anyone had experience in creating an emailing solution driven by > ColdFusion and SQL on any platform with any mail server that is capable of > handling 4 million deliveries an hour? If so, would you care to > share what > software you used to make it happen? And do you have a live example of a > company using the system? > > ---mark > > ======================================================== > Mark Warrick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Founder, Fusioneers.com / CTO, ZapConnect.com > Phone: 714-547-5386 / 714-667-0203 / Efax: 801-730-7289 > http://www.warrick.net / http://www.fusioneers.com > http://www.zapconnect.com > ICQ: 125160 AIM: markwarric Yahoo: Serengeti > ======================================================== > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
