I would think it is smart to put each school on a separate mail server, but
60 mail servers is a lot, so maybe if you divide among 6 servers. I am not
familiar with sizing, but I am looking from a disaster recovery view. If
XYZ school is having email problems, you (and them) don't want ABC and QRS
schools also having problems. Sounds like a very nice project.....I am a
little green...
Jason
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> Hi
>
> Re: Capacity Planning
>
> I have a nice project on a 3 year contract.
>
> We will be developing a web site to be used by 60 schools.
>
> There will be 1 domain name used for the school, for arguments sake lets
> say "schools.com" and
> this will be sectioned off per school with the same pages for each
> school. + each school will also have there own .edu domain for email and
> email for school.com domain
>
> So it will be main page, school1, section1, section2, section3 and
> School2, section1, section2, section3 etc upto school 60 and could be 20
> sections per school
>
> 60 Schools x 400 pupils per school
>
> Each school has 10Mb link to Internet ( lets say they only have 20
> computers per school)
>
> 400 x 60 email addresses are required of .edu addresses 24,000 addresses
> + teachers addresses
> 400 x 60 email addresses are required for .com addresses 24,000
> addresses+ teachers addresses
> (I can write scripts to setup email accounts imported from text files in
> batches)
>
> I was thinking of running Linux 6.1, Coldfusion 4.5 and MySQL for the
> database
> (I could run clustercats and spread the load over multiservers for
> Coldfusion - is this likely to be necessary)
> Apache 1.3.6 for the web server
> Sendmail 8 for email
>
> There is of course day time usage and evening usage for pupils doing
> homework etc.....
> Parents may also connect for information + the internet could bing in
> other users
> (there may also be a chat area)
>
> My question is how many email pop boxes can I put on 1 server?
>
> How many concurrent connetctions will a server cope with for http
> requests?
>
> (Say the server is a PIII 700 512Mb Memory Hardware RAID)
>
> Anyone any ideas on this, or could point me in the right direction.
>
> Many Thanks
>
> Tony
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