Date: 06 Oct 1998 12:43:37 -0400 From: Chris Shenton <chris@shenton.org> To: Graeme Tait <U@webcom.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to share accounts between mail/pop and web servers? Message-ID: <87soh1tzd2.fsf@absinthe.shenton.org> In-Reply-To: Graeme Tait's message of "Tue, 06 Oct 1998 08:53:58 -0700" References: <87hfxiv0r9.fsf@absinthe.shenton.org> <361A3D16.14B5@webcom.com>
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Graeme Tait <U@webcom.com> writes: > Why not duplicate the box and split the users across boxes? That way if > one box goes down, only half your users suffer. It's scalable, as for > yet more users you just add another box, and you can load-balance the > boxes easily for good utilization by allocating users appropriately. > Configuration is the same from box to box, and having hardware spares is > easy. The only thing that might connect the boxes is having them do > secondary DNS for each other. Cuz sendmail and web stuff are big applications. I don't think their size and resource consumption is terribly related to the number of users (my customers, not outsiders hitting the web). But it would be a good idea for me to mirror the web stuff on the mail server and the mail stuff on the web server just in case. But frankly: I installed FreeBSD-2.1.5 two years ago and it's only gone down once (unplanned) that I'm aware of. Not too shabby, and one of the best advertisements I know of for FreeBSD versus other platforms. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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