Re: Documentation of big "mail systems"?
## Wouter Verhelst (wouter@grep.be):
> > > Getting servers that each have 200G or 300G of storage is easy.
> > For a mail server, it means either 1G per user (like gmail gives you)
> > for only 300 users or 10M (much less than hotmail) for 30 000
> > users. It is probably not enough for a Hotmail-like service. Think of
> > 300 000 users. How many servers will you need?
> Debian does not need the storage for developers to store their mail on
> the project's servers.
This thread is not about Debian's mail service.
> That said, your calculation is incorrect. You don't need 300G to give
> 300 users 1G disk space -- 250G should do. The reason is that most
> people never reach their 1G quota; and if they do, it takes a while, so
> that you can take appropriate measures (i.e., add more disks) well on
> time.
Yes, depending on your average user you could get down to 50% average
usage. Or up to 95%.
Regards,
Christoph
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