[CentOS] [Semi-OT] Advice on large webmail setup

Wed Feb 14 14:26:31 UTC 2007
Barry Brimer <lists at brimer.org>

> 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