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Re: Server sizing methodology?

From: bofh (goodb0fhgmail.com)
Date: Tue May 02 2006 - 17:11:29 CDT


On 5/2/06, Stewart, John <johnsartesyncp.com> wrote:

> For the bigger site, I'm thinking one of the slightly beefier Sun boxes
> with
> some SCSI disks. Currently our mail gateway is on a Sun E250, and I think
> anything new from Sun with SCSI disks is going to be beefier than that.

Dude, any current hardware will be fine :) 25k emails/day, assuming
non-powerpoint type attachments, is really nothing to worry about. About
4-5 years ago, I was sending 100k messages/hour (size of 5k to 200k mails)
on untuned servers while doing some testing.