Re: Scaling of imap servers

2011-06-17 Thread Eric Luyten
On Fri, June 17, 2011 12:51 pm, Ram wrote: >> How much does it cost to use 300T redundant fault-tolerant storage in an >> Amazon Cloud? >> >> > They dont seem to offer 300T of storage , I tried the same with > rackspace they too limit the maximum direct storage to around 600G per server > ( > Th

Re: Scaling of imap servers

2011-06-17 Thread Ram
On 06/16/2011 07:54 PM, Pascal Gienger wrote: > Am 16.06.11 15:26, schrieb Ramprasad A.P: > >> Using outsourced mail is not possible > Amazon cloud *IS* outsourced mail, Amazon has access to your virtual > servers and it passes without VPN into their network. > But having a private server from v

Re: Scaling of imap servers

2011-06-17 Thread Eric Luyten
On Thu, June 16, 2011 6:18 pm, Vincent Fox wrote: > On 6/16/2011 7:24 AM, Pascal Gienger wrote: > >> >> 20K users with 20G each = 400 TB. With zfs compression perhaps 300 TB. >> > I dunno, I find that people use FAR FAR less than their quota on average. > Sure you've got the 1 doctor who sends a bu

Re: Scaling of imap servers

2011-06-16 Thread Vincent Fox
On 6/16/2011 7:24 AM, Pascal Gienger wrote: > > 20K users with 20G each = 400 TB. With zfs compression perhaps 300 TB. I dunno, I find that people use FAR FAR less than their quota on average. Sure you've got the 1 doctor who sends a bunch of X-rays or something but most people wouldn't fill up a 1

Re: Scaling of imap servers

2011-06-16 Thread Pascal Gienger
Am 16.06.11 15:26, schrieb Ramprasad A.P: > Using outsourced mail is not possible Amazon cloud *IS* outsourced mail, Amazon has access to your virtual servers and it passes without VPN into their network. > The biggest problem is harddisk space > Every user is looking for huge amounts of disksp

Re: Scaling of imap servers

2011-06-16 Thread Ramprasad A.P
Quoting Lars Schimmer : > On 2011-06-15 13:33, Ram wrote: >> We need to create a platform for create a large number of cyrus accounts >> that can scale indefinitely >> I could start with just 2k users but could have 20x the number of >> accounts by next year. >> I was thinking of taking a cloud-

Re: Scaling of imap servers

2011-06-16 Thread Lars Schimmer
On 2011-06-15 13:33, Ram wrote: > We need to create a platform for create a large number of cyrus accounts > that can scale indefinitely > I could start with just 2k users but could have 20x the number of > accounts by next year. > I was thinking of taking a cloud-based machine at amazon or racks

Re: Scaling of imap servers

2011-06-15 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Wed, 15 Jun 2011 17:03:53 +0530 Ram wrote: > We need to create a platform for create a large number of cyrus accounts > that can scale indefinitely > I could start with just 2k users but could have 20x the number of > accounts by next year. > I was thinking of taking a cloud-based machine

Scaling of imap servers

2011-06-15 Thread Ram
We need to create a platform for create a large number of cyrus accounts that can scale indefinitely I could start with just 2k users but could have 20x the number of accounts by next year. I was thinking of taking a cloud-based machine at amazon or rackspace and scale hardware vertically as