Re: [WISPA] Akamai

2008-01-06 Thread Forrest W. Christian
Travis Johnson wrote: We love Akamai... especially during big Windows Update periods. :) We serve 12 school districts and they all seem to do their updates on PC's and servers during the same times (during school breaks) and the Akamai servers save us a ton of bandwidth and the customers get

Re: [WISPA] Akamai

2008-01-06 Thread Travis Johnson
We've had it for almost 5 years now, and they actually approached us... so it was a simple form and they shipped us all the equipment (which does take about 4u of rack space and power... it's 3 servers and a switch). I also know that our servers handle requests for people that are close to

[WISPA] Mail server setup

2008-01-06 Thread Ugo Bellavance
Hi, I will probably have to design an e-mail (and other components) infrastructure for a small ISP soon (WISP). I'm doing some research to determine which components would be best to offer e-mail services to their client and allow the staff to manage accounts easily. I usually

Re: [WISPA] Mail server setup

2008-01-06 Thread David E. Smith
On Sun, January 6, 2008 3:44 pm, Ugo Bellavance wrote: I will probably have to design an e-mail (and other components) infrastructure for a small ISP soon (WISP). How small is small? That will be the single biggest issue in deciding just what you need. Honestly, all the multiply-redundant

Re: [WISPA] Mail server setup

2008-01-06 Thread Forrest W. Christian
David E. Smith wrote: How small is small? That will be the single biggest issue in deciding just what you need. Honestly, all the multiply-redundant backend stuff and virtual-machine-migration and hyper-scalable backends sound seriously overkill for most of what I'd consider small. Agreed

Re: [WISPA] Mail server setup

2008-01-06 Thread Dylan Oliver
Have you considered http://www.google.com/a? Free, awesome, and ever-so-easy to administer. I just don't see the point of bothering with your own mail server. On Jan 6, 2008 3:44 PM, Ugo Bellavance [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I will probably have to design an e-mail (and other