Hahah, Good point! I'd go for a second hard drive. Throwing in
a sansdisk IDE solid state 400M drive would also boost performance
ALOT. They go for about $800 or so.
Jacob Scott wrote:
>
> Not to rain on anyone's parade: 20K accounts@1MB each is already 20gigs...
> on a 10gb hdd- so, if you want to allocate 1Mb/account, maybe 7K accounts?
> Or buy another hard drive, yeah. =P
>
> Jacob
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: kbo [mailto:kbo]On Behalf Of Ken Jones
> Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 11:52 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: email free...
>
> Ben Beuchler wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 12:19:50PM -0500, Ken Jones wrote:
> >
> > > > Hi, I've a server with this hardware configuration:
> > > > AMD- K6 - 500Mhz, 64Mb RAM, 10Gb HD (IDE). This server is running a
> > > > WebServer (Apache) and a mail server (qmail and vpopmail). This server
> > > > has about 150 domains in it, but now one of then, would like to give
> > > > Free Email Accounts (like Hotmail). Anyone can told me how many mail
> > > > accounts this server supports?
> > > > P.S- 1Mb each account.
> > >
> > > You can probably do about 20K accounts. It depends alot on
> > > how active each account is.
> >
> > I would be very curious to hear how you arrived at that number. I'm not
> > disagreeing with you, I just have no idea how to predict how many
> > accounts a box can handle.
>
> It's a gut feeling based on systems I've worked on and talking
> to other people about thier machines. Another number to throw
> into the mix ;] on most free email sites, only 10% to 20% of
> the accounts are active. (based on that - i'm probably
> overstating the amount of 20K)
>
> We did some measurements with a similar machine as above. About
> the same hardware except it had 128Mram. Only doing outgoing
> email, for newsletter type mail. It was able to sustain about
> 750,000 emails per day. It ranged from 500K to 1.1M.
>
> Ken Jones
