I don't see the need either. I have several thousand users among 400 domains, running
off a 1/2 GB PII, with no problems whatsoever. I rarely see a load average higher
than .7.
In addition, the server mirror's itself 3 times a day to another server that can be
configured on the fly to take over, if necessary. Qmail is way cool...
Dan
Ben Beuchler wrote:
>
> On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 02:27:59PM -0500, Ryan Hayle wrote:
>
> > On that note--what is the real benefit of using MySQL? I'm running it
> > now, and things are working fine, but I'm afraid of the load problem
> > you described before... Does MySQL offer a significant performance
> > gain? I doubt we'll -ever- have over 1000 users (we don't even have
> > 100 now), and so it's not that important. I used to be running exim
> > on a 486 with gnu-pop3d and it worked quite well, no performance
> > issues whatsoever.
>
> Because databases are cool. Everything should be run off a database.
>
> Ben
>
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