From owner-freebsd-isp Wed May 12 9:56:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from shell.futuresouth.com (shell.futuresouth.com [198.78.58.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FAB314CA3 for ; Wed, 12 May 1999 09:56:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fullermd@futuresouth.com) Received: (from fullermd@localhost) by shell.futuresouth.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA13608; Wed, 12 May 1999 11:56:27 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 11:56:27 -0500 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" To: GVB Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: We are a growing ISP, need some advice! Message-ID: <19990512115627.A12442@futuresouth.com> References: <4.1.19990512085152.00b757e0@abused.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990512085152.00b757e0@abused.com>; from GVB on Wed, May 12, 1999 at 08:51:57AM -0700 X-OS: FreeBSD Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 08:51:57AM -0700, a little birdie told me that GVB remarked > > server farm. My question is, what should my growth point be from here, how > do I scale this thing to accomidate all the users and domains I am hosting, > because we are noticing the hardware starting to slow, the mail server > actually hits swap space, even with 384 megs of RAM in it. Uh... Your hardware is WELL over-spec'd for what you're doing. Going into swap is a perfectly normal and expected thing to do, no matter HOW much RAM you have. And you certainly don't need to consider a farm of servers just because you're tapping a little swap space. As a rough guess, your hardware will keep you quite happy until you increase in size approximately, oh, 10x, at which point you probably want to add another web server and split the domains across them, and put a good hardware RAID on the mail server, which should scale nicely through another 10x growth... -- *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | Matthew Fuller MF4839 http://www.over-yonder.net/ | * fullermd@futuresouth.com fullermd@over-yonder.net * | UNIX Systems Administrator Specializing in FreeBSD | * FutureSouth Communications ISPHelp ISP Consulting * | "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, | * is because I haven't figured out how to light the * | middle yet" | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message