From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Oct 6 18:34:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA24431 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 18:34:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gjp.erols.com (alex-va-n008c079.moon.jic.com [206.156.18.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA24365 for ; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 18:33:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gjp@gjp.erols.com) Received: from gjp.erols.com (gjp@localhost.erols.com [127.0.0.1]) by gjp.erols.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA01460; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 21:33:16 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gjp@gjp.erols.com) To: Graeme Tait cc: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: How to share accounts between mail/pop and web servers? In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 06 Oct 1998 20:04:56 PDT." <361ADA58.58B7@webcom.com> Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 21:33:15 -0400 Message-ID: <1456.907723995@gjp.erols.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Graeme Tait wrote in message ID <361ADA58.58B7@webcom.com>: > I can see it cutting both ways. If you had say 5 boxes in my model > and one we nt 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). > Another advantage of essentially identical boxes is that upgrades > can be test ed on a subset of the system before total commitment. It also creates interesting problems when you grow large enough. All our servers are broken out by function (to the point of different NS machines for customer resolvers and nameservers for acutally holding local domain information, inbound & outbound & virtual mail machines are all broken out, etc. It makes it administratively cleaner, and stops people fighting over tuning options and system setups and so on.... Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message