What type of bandwidth connection would probably be best for a 5 million
user mail cluster? I am thinking maybe T3 (definitely cannot afford OC)? The
network is starting small and to later expand, what would be good for 1/2
million maybe for a start? T1?
links to articles/documentation relatin
> 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*
Bad things happen, little gremlins come out of the wood work and data
starts to disappear.
> Check out:
>
> http://www.f5.com
> (f5 Load balancers are cool, Foundry
"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
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
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 hand
On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 04:56:43PM +1100, Brett Randall wrote:
> > Well, my users are all in one domain, so I cannot split the domains
> > across several HDD's.
>
> RAID???
RAID + Fibre Channel.
> > Secondly, what if 2 1/2 million users
> > simultaneously hit the server, would the server handle
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Subject: Scalable Mail Solution
Hi,
I have used Qmail for over 3 years now and I love it. Now I have came across
one project, building a Mail server to handle around 5-6 million users with
a 10 meg mailbox each (I use vpopmail www.inter7.com for the pop server and
virtual domain part). No
On Thu, 01 Mar 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Is their such a thing as a 50 terrabyte hard drive?
No. (Unless you work in the USDF)
> Well, my users are all in one domain, so I cannot split the domains
> across several HDD's.
RAID???
> Secondly, what if 2 1/2 million users
> simultaneously
Hi,
I have used Qmail for over 3 years now and I love it. Now I have came across
one project, building a Mail server to handle around 5-6 million users with
a 10 meg mailbox each (I use vpopmail www.inter7.com for the pop server and
virtual domain part). Now multiplying 10MB x 500 users =
