On Sunday, April 8, 2001, at 04:16 PM, Ask Bjoern Hansen wrote:
> On Sun, 8 Apr 2001, Tom Mornini wrote:
>
> I don't understand why anyone would do anything else than just
> forking to qmail-inject.
>
> At least on Linux and FreeBSD that goes reasonably fast (you're not
> sending hundreds and hundreds of mails per minute, are you?), is
> really simple and the mail will be delivered faster than your mail
> program can login to the mail server.
Well, actually, yes, we were sending a HUGE amount of mail for various
reasons, none of which were spam-related. :-)
The site that I worked on went from a single box with no traffic to
3M fully dynamic, DB transaction, language-translate on the fly, page
views per day. The site also generated 16Mbs AVERAGE traffic out of
our co-location facility.
In addition we were routing over 20M SMS messages per month, many of
which were delivered via SMTP. This traffic was on top of the regular
account verification and password forgotten e-mails.
And in addition to that, we were hosting forward to SMTP and forward
to SMS mailboxes.
As the site grew, we learned better and better ways of doing things.
I'll never again think in terms of "this will work for a while" if I
can help it, because when sites get popular, they get popular FAST,
and it's a real pain to scale things after the fact. :-)
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-- Tom Mornini
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