Hello gurus,
As 2020 nears I wanted to ask opinions about the current state of hardware
requirements for a small business email platform. $dayjob asked me to enhance
our existing platform to improve performance and add redundancy.
Main questions (TLDR):
Can NFS handle heavy IMAP, LDA, HTTP wor
> You ruled out cloud solutions?
Yes. Do any Postfix administrators with busy systems rely on NFS?
> > Yes. Do any Postfix administrators with busy systems rely on NFS?
>
> That seems like a really bad idea, honestly.
Coy Hile also said:
> I haven't used mail systems that had, e.g. /var/mail
> on NFS in more than 20 years.
So NFS is a poor, outdated choice for mail storage in 2020 for a small
> > > > Yes. Do any Postfix administrators with busy systems rely on NFS?
> > > > That seems like a really bad idea, honestly.
> >
> > So NFS is a poor, outdated choice for mail storage in 2020 for a
> > small/medium
> > enterprise?
>
> On any large number of users some kind of hash is used to d
