Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 08:51:49 -0700 From: GVB <gvbmail@tns.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: We are a growing ISP, need some advice! Message-ID: <4.1.19990512084359.00b66cd0@abused.com>
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Hi there. I am a systems administrator for a small ISP in San Diego that is rapidly growing. We offer basically all ISP services including dialup, domain hosting, dedicated connections, etc. All of our servers are run off of FreeBSD. Mail server is a PentiumII 233 with 384 megs of RAM running UW SCSI hard drives. It is currently 2.2.8 with sendmail and Qpopper. Our web server is a PentiumII 266 with 384 megs of RAM running UW SCSI hard drives. It is currently 3.1 running Apache-ssl with Frontpage extensions. We have about 150 virtual domains running on the web server and about 800 dialin accounts + the mail from all the virtual domains running off of that one mail server. We are starting to see a definite need for a bigger server farm. My question is, what should my growth point be from here, how do I scale this thing to accomidate all the users and domains I am hosting, because we are noticing the hardware starting to slow, the mail server actually hits swap space, even with 384 megs of RAM in it. I have read up on doing round robin DNS with the Web Servers, but never really understood how the disks are synched up, does it run on NFS with one machine serving the content? How about scaling the mail servers? Where can I read up on setting up multiple mail/pop3 servers? What is the best solution to do this. Any help or refrences to books or URL's is GREATLY appriciated. Thanks again in advance. Gaylord Van Brocklin Terracom Inc. San Diego, CA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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