Re: [cobalt-users] Re: Maximum Sites Allowed for RaQ 3 or 4 (Jeff Lasman)

["Steve Werby" <steve-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"FantasticMoms.com" <admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Further to this I am wondering how many users we can reliably have.
Suppose
> we only have 100 or so virtual domains, but each domain has 30 users?  Can
a
> RaQ3 handle that many users?  If not, how many?
>
> I think someone on this list mentioned 500 recently.  Does that sound
right?
> If so, if your RaQ had 250 sites they could only have 2 user each (?).
> Seems somehow very low indeed.

There is no magic # for how many sites and users a RaQ (or any server) can
handle.  I could come up with analogies all day long, but what it really
comes down to is how your server is configured, how much RAM it has, what
services are being used, usage patterns and what you mean by "handle".  I've
administered RaQs with 1/2GB of RAM that handled 150-200 moderate traffic
websites (some with CGI and db-driven content) and several thousand
email-only users who accessed POP boxes several times per day on average
with incoming email on the light side.  Like one or more people have said (I
believe on this thread) it's possible to use db-backed Sendmail replacements
or other solutions where system users are either not created or whose info
is stored in a db and support a user base that's several magnitudes greater.
If you have a need for such a system you may want to consider another
Linux-based system that you can customized for the job, unless you are
committed to using a blue box that's not optimized for that.

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Steve Werby
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