[CentOS] [Semi-OT] Advice on large webmail setup
Barry Brimer
lists at brimer.org
Wed Feb 14 14:26:31 UTC 2007
> As the resident Linux guru, I've just been tasked with costing a webmail setup
> for about 600 000 users. They each have 10MiB (small, I know) mailboxes. The
> current setup has about 40 million web page accesses per month.
>
> Has anyone here any experience with this kind of thing? If so, any pointers as
> to software and hardware used, and any other advice would be appreciated.
While not specifically a costing point, if your users are on your LAN, and
expect the quickest possible response times, and if your webmail is a
collection of pages, and not a single cgi, I recommend placing the pages
of your webmail system on a ramdisk.
Barry
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