* Istvan Prosinger <ist...@prosinger.net>:
> Hello,
>
> I'll have a project to send 300-400k emails a day from a new IP
> address with one server. This can build up a signifficant mail queue
> on the server.
> We have several similar solutions already working but this time the
> idea is to have me do this on a VPS (no SSD drives involved),
> hmmmm....
Let's take a look at the numbers and bring them down to something we can
handle in our brains:
400.000,00 day
16.666,67 hour
277,78 minute
4,63 second
Sending 4,63 msg/sec is something regular hardware can do. There's no
technical need to use SSDs or even a tmpfs.
If the machine goes down you risk loosing all messages in delivery. You can
resend them, but then you will have to figure out which ones had already been
delivered and which were still on the machine. I'd wouldn't risk that. It
doesn't pay and you do have the choice to go for something more stable.
p@rick
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