Quoting Lars Schimmer <l.schimmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > 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 rackspace >> and scale hardware vertically as required. >> But the problem with rackspace or amazon is they do not offer much >> storage and cap the total storage that can be used. > > Send all email on free base to amazon? Why should amazon get all your > emails? If you do not care about security and privacy, you can also use > googleMail. > >> I would like to know how do you guys do the same > > Have a look at fastmail.fm - they have setup a fairly big serverfarm > with cyrus. > >> Thanks >> Ram > Using outsourced mail is not possible The biggest problem is harddisk space Every user is looking for huge amounts of diskspace even if I need 20GB per user I cant get so much disk space at affordable cost. ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/
