That is pretty cool. I'd sure like to be involved in a project like
that. Which provider is this - that sure is alot of accounts and quite a
mailstore!
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On 4/18/12 4:30 PM, Jake Vickers wrote:
On 04/16/2012 08:56 PM, Casey Price wrote:
Wow! That is an impressive sounding project to say the least. Just out
of curiosity, what are you using for your host system or systems? I'm
wondering how powerful the servers would need to be to handle that kind
of load.
I don't have all the specs on the boxes handy - I'm more involved with
the storage tuning side versus the front end side, but they'd be quad
core boxes with >32G of RAM, with maybe 6-10 of them pointed at NFS
shares over dedicated 1G and some 10G network links. The services are
split out a fair amount - there's machines dedicated to nothing but
incoming SMTP. others for spam scanning, others for client access, etc.
There are a couple of each type of these setups as well - two separate
data centers have a setup like the above each for the free email
accounts, and there is a paid service as well, where similar setups
are running for the paid customers. Obviously density of the paid
versus free accounts on the boxes has a large disparity - you want the
paid customers to have better service than the free ones :)
All said and done between the two data centers, adding everything up,
somewhere in the neighborhood of 700TB of email store with the ability
to double that capacity in an hour or less. Fun stuff!
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