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Originally Posted by ratbastid
If that Poweredge is reasonably well spec'ed, I wouldn't worry about running web and email off it at the same time. The metal's not going to be the limiting factor.
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Well this is good news. I was doing some research and found there is a program with Apache called ab for benchmarking that returned some (I think) good results. It was able to handle 972 requests per second (static pages I know) and served 98% of those requests within 8 ms. The command was 'ab -kc 5 -t 30
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Originally Posted by ratbastid
Bear in mind, one great big email attachment will gum up your pipe for as long as it takes to get through. Of course, that'll mostly be coming the 8mb/s direction, which helps. I predict that with more than 10 or so simultaneous users, this thing will get noticeably slow. But that's still PLENTY of accessibility for a total web audience of 100. Probably no more than a couple will hit it at a time, right?
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I don't think we're going to get more than 30 people INTENSIVELY using the site at any one time, and intermittently.
I wanted to ask another question please -- I set up that second P4 to be the email server, with spamassassin, clamav, postfix, mailman and dovecot to handle all the email. The major load will be outgoing with a mailing list of about 2000 people. In terms of email incoming, only maybe 15 email addresses will exist for the domain. I wanted to use a webmail system (like squirrelmail) for the email. The question becomes -- can I use the webserver to serve the actual webmail application, but it pulls the email users and messages from that second p4 email server? Or do I have to run the email web application on the same server that has the MTA? Sorry if this is a basic question -- I'm aiming for what I think is a best setup (webserving on one machine, email handling on another) but I don't know if that's too weird.
Thank you