I still stand by my main points, and I think a mail-server serving 3,000 users might require what I call "high-availability". You really don't want to deny service to 3,000 users (and field all the tech support calls) if your server goes down.
That said, I know of large mail-servers still running on 100mhz 486 and 90mhz Pentium chip-based systems, under the philosophy of "if it aint broke, don't fix it".
But building for today for 3000 users, I'd want high-availability.That said, we offer email-outsourcing; we usually install an intel-based server put together for us by a local vendor. Drive size based on expected number of mailboxes, software RAID1, RH Linux 6.1.
YMMV. Jeff At 02:16 PM 2/12/00 +0100, you wrote:
Jeff, > 3,000 email addresses, at 5,000,000 bytes each (5 megabytes) adds up to > 15,000,000,000, or 15 gigabytes of disk storage. Plus the space you need > for temp files, depending on how many people are accessing email at the > same time. If this is of any help.... 15gb would only be the case if ALL users user their webspace allowance 100%. Our inhouse stats here show (we have stats for a few thousand domains and users) that the average webspace needed per POP box (=per user) with a 20mb allowance is usually under 2mb...... Fathi _______________________________________________ cobalt-users mailing list cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-users
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