From owner-freebsd-isp Wed May 12 9:11:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mail.lusardi.com (mail.lusardi.com [207.215.158.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8A7B151B7 for ; Wed, 12 May 1999 09:11:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from erinf@lusardi.com) Received: by MAIL with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2232.9) id ; Wed, 12 May 1999 09:07:03 -0700 Message-ID: From: Erin Fortenberry To: 'GVB' , freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: RE: We are a growing ISP, need some advice! Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 09:06:08 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2232.9) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I've seen a few different ways of doing it, the easiest maybe being the way pair.com does it, multiple boxes and more redundancy... Its just a thought. Erin mailto:kahn@unet.tm http://www.fortenberry.net Maybe the evil chain letter leprechauns will come into my apartment and sodomize me in my sleep for not continuing the chain... -----Original Message----- From: GVB [mailto:gvbmail@tns.net] Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 1999 8:52 AM To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: We are a growing ISP, need some advice! 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-isp" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message