On Thu, 01 Mar 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Is their such a thing as a 50 terrabyte hard drive?
No. (Unless you work in the USDF)
> Well, my users are all in one domain, so I cannot split the domains
> across several HDD's.
RAID???
> Secondly, what if 2 1/2 million users
> simultaneously hit the server, would the server handle it?
What with? A baseball bat? Unlikely. Logging in? Perhaps. Calculate
how many MBs each instance of your web server take up, multiply it
by 2.5million, and tell me that your server can handle both that
amount of RAM and that number of processes. Uh huh.
> Well, how does hotmail or yahoo do it? I am sure they load blanace
> across multiple servers, but how?
If you're looking at a *nix solution, look into Coda filesystems,
Intermezzo, GFS, etc. Then look at a network-based clustering
solution, such as the Linux Virtual Server.
> I know all about load balancing with dns, etc. across multiple web
> servers for example, but with mail, a specific user has to login to
> the same box that hosts his mailbox everytime, and mail arriving from
> outside world to this user has to arrive to the same box also.
You're thinking inside the box.
> If anyone out there has gone through something like this, I would
> appreciate it a lot if you hint me with a clue :) P.S. Please cc me
> your reply, as I am not subscribed to the list. Best Regards,
You might want to subscribe. Just a hint.
> Tim
Brett.
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