Date: Fri, 08 Oct 1999 00:06:05 +0100 From: Stuart Henderson <stuart@eclipse.net.uk> To: Deepwell Internet <freebsd@deepwell.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NetApp servers Message-ID: <37FD275D.F30BFF9E@eclipse.net.uk> References: <4.2.0.58.19991007152026.02f2f9d0@mail1.dcomm.net>
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> Can anyone point me to good documentation of building highly scalable web > servers or mail servers? I'd like to explore some different designs and > look at how they scale and increase reliability. > I noticed that Geocities offers all user pages at > www.geocities.com/~username. How do you suppose they are implementing > this? A large Sun box or two with NFS? Other alternatives would be to use squid or some natd-style code (or some custom hardware, perhaps some of the load balancing boxes can do this) and divert requests to the correct web server based on a hash of the username or database lookup. > >EarthLink do run mail on NetApps. They have a white paper somewhere on > >their website describing their setup (which involves some hacks in local > >delivery agents and POP3 daemons to work around the locking issue). One file per mailbox is not the only way to store mail :-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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