"Rob Hines Jr." wrote:
>
> In short, yes, there are Terrabyte solutions, they start in the several
> hundred thousand range, and go up according to what you need. Many
> companies that do that sort of volume use load balancers (layer 7
> usually), and several machines clustered together. I don't see any
> reason qmail couldn't handle that volume of users, but you're talking
> about some serious equipment costs, at least in the very high hundreds
> of thousands of dollars.
>
> The short answer to the question about what would happen if 2.5 million
> users hit your PIII server at once. In a word: *poof*
>
> Check out:
>
> http://www.f5.com
> (f5 Load balancers are cool, Foundry also makes some good gear, I forget
> the URL)
>
Foundry Networks is:
http://www.foundrynetworks.com/
Some very good solid equipment.
> http://www.nthgencomp.com/
> (Terabyte arrays)
>
> http://www.sun.com/
> (Servers that won't blow up under that load and Terabyte arrays)
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Rob
Jonathan Smith
