holly cow... 4 million geez... I am not asking who this is for.. that's a gross amount of emails...
First off, I haven't created such a tool... Let's talk about theory here... With CF you can expect how many simultaneous pages per second performance wise? 50-100 on a nice box with tight code.. optimization, etc... so let's be optimistic... 100 x 60 seconds = 6000 messages per minute 6000 per min * 60 minutes = 360,0000 messages per hour... per box... that's about 6 times the spool limit.. which is about 65k files... putting that aside... you need about 10-15 servers essentially with a distributed cooperative pooling mechanism to handle this... ideally... You also need a damn fast DNS or multiple local servers to reduce lookup times... Ideally, if you scrap the mail server need (which would be expensive, clogged, nightmare) and utilized a CF friendly mail server like iMS and ripped the mailing to a giant database table... had a scheduled event whereby each machine grabbed a range, worked it and recorded status errors etc to database and purged valid already mailed stuff or put in another table.. and talked maybe directly SMTP versus the need of a server well then it would be doable... recommend MySQL here... cheap and damn fast.... but with the machines I mentioned... you might also need some good bandwidth considering the volume of mail and the potential size of the emails themselves... That's my input... -paris Paris Lundis Founder Areaindex, L.L.C. http://www.areaindex.com http://www.pubcrawler.com (p) 1-212-655-4477 [finding the future in the past, passing the future in the present] [connecting people, places and things] -----Original Message----- From: Mark Warrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 6:15 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: 4 million messages per hour - is it possible? Hello, Has anyone had experience in creating an emailing solution driven by ColdFusion and SQL on any platform with any mail server that is capable of handling 4 million deliveries an hour? If so, would you care to share what software you used to make it happen? And do you have a live example of a company using the system? ---mark ======================================================== Mark Warrick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Founder, Fusioneers.com / CTO, ZapConnect.com Phone: 714-547-5386 / 714-667-0203 / Efax: 801-730-7289 http://www.warrick.net / http://www.fusioneers.com http://www.zapconnect.com ICQ: 125160 AIM: markwarric Yahoo: Serengeti ======================================================== ______________________________________________________________________ Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
