On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 12:02 -0500, Forrest Aldrich wrote: > On 2/11/10 11:55 AM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > > On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 10:35 -0500, Zachariah Mully wrote: > >> Howdy all- > >> Is anyone out there running Cyrus on an Amazon EC2 instance with EBS? > >> During these brutal storms we've had in the DC area, we've been > >> discussing how to improve the resiliency of our operations and getting > >> our mail systems out of our CO and into a datacenter is high on the > >> list. I'm looking for any feedback on using Cyrus with Amazon or any > >> other 'cloud' service (I'm also looking at Rackspace's cloudserver > >> offering as we're already a customer). Any gotchas, performance, > >> reliability issues, etc? About 120 users, 300+GB mailstore. > > I run Cyrus on a Linode VM. I've been *very* happy with them. And it > > is just a 'normal' virtual server and not any odd-ball cloud thing. > I wonder how people deal with the disk I/O deficiency under virtual > systems such as VMWare. We decided not to virtualize any processes > that were disk I/O intensive. Well, the person quoted is talking about a ~120 user Cyrus box. Odds are the I/O load is pretty light. I've found that for a couple hundred users you can run Cyrus on just about anything. -- Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> LPIC-1, Novell CLA <http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com> OpenGroupware, Cyrus IMAPd, Postfix, OpenLDAP, Samba ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
