Re: [cobalt-users] Evaluating Cobalt RaQ for more than 25000 e-mail accounts

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Víctor Villar wrote:
>     Anybody use the Cobalt RaQ for more than 25000 pop3 e-mails accounts and
> Webmail ?

Probably not, and probably for good reasons.

>     Any suggestion?

The topline RaQ XTR would have been powerful enough for this kind of
application, but it appears to have been recalled/withdrawn (???).

The RaQ4s, the current topline product, runs at 450mhz.  I'd think that
much to slow to offer webmail for 25,000 users.  Unless none of them
ever log in <smile>.

And the gui would certainly make doing all of this more complex than it
needs to be; the RaQs are designed to host multiple websites for a
hosting company.

Have you considered using a 1ghZ system, scsi raid drives, and a
gigabyte of memory?  That's what you'll need.  While you can use a
front-end to automate this, PLESK comes to mind as being more in the
range of what you'd want than Cobalt's front end.

I specialize in these kinds of solutions, on both Windows 2000 and Linux
platforms; contact me offlist if you'd like.

Jeff
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