Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 09:40:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Troy Settle <rewt@i-Plus.net> To: Graeme Tait <U@webcom.com> Cc: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <jeff-ml@mountin.net>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to share accounts between mail/pop and web servers? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981009093117.15922B-100000@Radford.i-Plus.net> In-Reply-To: <361ADA58.58B7@webcom.com>
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On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, Graeme Tait wrote: > Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote: > > > It's better to break out services to various servers, so that only > > one service may be down for the customer. If it's fixed quickly, they > > usually don't mind, but when "everything" is down for them. > > > I can see it cutting both ways. If you had say 5 boxes in my model > and one went down, 20% of users are affected. If all there email was > on one box in the alternate model, 100% of email is down. > > The model I suggested seems to be that successfully used by pair.com > (running FreeBSD, of course). I think we got into an "Apples vs. Oranges" discussion here. For a web hosting setup, splitting users is clearly an optimal choice. For an ISP, however, splitting services offers greater reliability and easier management. I, for one, would love to have a centralized authentication server. -- Troy Settle <st@i-Plus.net> Network Administrator, iPlus Internet Services http://www.i-Plus.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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