>>
You have to accept that not everyone is affluent enough to dedicate an
entire machine solely to email,
>>
I have TWO machines devoted to mail. And I'm a cheap b@st@rd. I have an smtp
server running IMGATE. Software was free the box was an old pentium with 64
megs of RAM. Cost FREE. Oh I had to buy a new nic card. So the SMTP mail
server cost me $60 buck. My IMAIL machine is a pentium 300 with 128 megs of
RAM and two 10 gigs IDE drive using Promise raid cards. Total cost $800.
I would much rather have a bunch of clones running that one EXPENSIVE compaq
or dell.
Andrew P. Kaplan, CNE, MCSE+Internet, MCT, CCNA, CCDA
CyberShore, Inc. -- Premium Internet Services -- http://www.cshore.com
Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we
ought to know a little about everything.
-- Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of MIke Mckay
> Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 3:57 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] webservice crashes can't upgrade
>
>
> You have to accept that not everyone is affluent enough to dedicate an
> entire machine solely to email, working on this model and taking service
> redundancy, data redundancy and back-ups into account, to do basic hosting
> with ( email, www, DNS & SQL ) you would need 8 servers, 8 raid cards, 16
> scsi drives buckets of ram and several tape drives not to mention the
> licensing if microsoft is the OS of choice.
>
> So many people will be running multiple services duplicated over
> fewer boxes
> especially if in a co-located enviroment which may charge by the server or
> by the "U" of rack space, and although imail may be austensively
> a ram based
> product the applications it is co-existing with may not, and not paying
> attention to things such as the swap file will mean the time between
> complete rebuilds or image redeployment reduces significantly, increases
> manpower costs and service downtime.
>
> And if a server has to be taken down because SQL has fragmented the drives
> to a point where it seriously affects performance and the machine
> has to be
> taken offline then wouldn't affect Imail if due to financial restrictions
> they were both on that server ?
>
> I think it is slightly unfair to condescend in such a fashion towards
> Daniel, for people on a budget I feel it is a valid and purposefull thread
> that will under the aforementioned circumstances aid the reliability of an
> Imail system.
>
> Mike A.B.S.O
>
> (lutely no letters after my name, wot a dunce)
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Len Conrad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 7:14 PM
> Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] webservice crashes can't upgrade
>
>
> > Daniel
> >
> > Can you explain this swap file business? A mail server shouldn�t be
> > swapping at all or extremely little.
> >
> > What has ipswitch found in increasing the hardly used swap file to 3X
> > memory size makes Imail work better?
> >
> > Len
> >
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> >
> >
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