Hi,
I'm planning for a replacement for our aging mailserver. We're a
smallish site with currently
around 20000 users. I expect that number to double in the next two
years. At the moment
we've got anAlpha 1000A 5/400 with 160Mb memory, and some 40Gb of
storage space. It
provides sendmail and IMAP, and can barely cope at the moment (lots of
pieces of string
and plasters and that sort of thing).
I can't quite decide whether to keep things simple and go for another
single big solid server,
or build in some redundancy by going e.g. cluster and/or split the
service provision and
storage by getting a small SAN or NAS and a couple of smaller mail
servers with mailboxes
mounted on the storage servers.
The first option seems rather solid, tried and trusted. But, if anything
fails, the whole
system goes down. The second line of thought is (for our site) untested
territory, but may
pay off in the long run.
I'd like to hear from people with a similar or slightly bigger system
what hardware/model
they use or are planning on using.
Thanks,
Rolf Habing
Canterbury Christ Church University College.
Received on Wed Jul 12 2000 - 12:44:47 NZST