Does anybody have any experience with the MD400/MD450 appliances?
Good/bad/indifferent
Do they do anything I can't do myself with Sophie, Cyrus IMAP, Postfix and
SpamAssassing on a decent PC?
Would you recommend them for high volume VISP mail hosting? (around 600k
domains)
Thanks for any opinions anybody has.
P.
Paul S. Brown writes on 11/19/2003 12:38 PM:
Does anybody have any experience with the MD400/MD450 appliances?
Good/bad/indifferent
Expensive
Do they do anything I can't do myself with Sophie, Cyrus IMAP, Postfix and SpamAssassing on a decent PC?
Would you recommend them for high volume VISP mail hosting? (around 600k domains)
We run mail for a few more domains / users than that, but use more than just a small PC. We do use postfix (and qmail, and courier imap, and rbldns, and a few other open source tools) though, not Mirapoints.
srs
The PC I was thinking of using for this would be the same spec as the
Mirapoint boxes (dual 2.8GHz P4, 2GB RAM, Lots of U320 RAID). I also wouldn't
be using a single PC.
Just curious as to whether anybody had experience with these systems as they
appear reasonably cheap for what they do (Well, compared to MCIS/Openwave/
Nexor/Insert$PROPRIETARYMTA).
As goes users, I honestly don't know how many hide behind those domains, but
around 8-10m mails a day at present are hitting this system
P.
Paul S. Brown writes on 11/19/2003 2:19 PM:
The PC I was thinking of using for this would be the same spec as the Mirapoint boxes (dual 2.8GHz P4, 2GB RAM, Lots of U320 RAID). I also wouldn't be using a single PC.
Thought so - but if you spend some time putting things together, you get more bang for your buck from postfix + courier + other stuff.
Scale horizontally - more cheaper boxes rather than fewer pieces of big iron. You'll be able to build something quite large that way.
As goes users, I honestly don't know how many hide behind those domains, but around 8-10m mails a day at present are hitting this system
Should be quite doable.
Does anybody have any experience with the MD400/MD450 appliances?
Good/bad/indifferent
Bad and expensive.
Would you recommend them for high volume VISP mail hosting? (around 600k
domains)
Check out IronPort.
They've done a lot of wild stuff to make their boxes hugely fast.
Tom (UnitedLayer) writes on 11/19/2003 4:47 PM:
Would you recommend them for high volume VISP mail hosting? (around 600k
domains)Check out IronPort.
They've done a lot of wild stuff to make their boxes hugely fast.
For commercial ware - Ironport is good.
There is also Theo Schlossnagle's ecelerity - PostalEngine.com is available at DomainMarket.com. Call 888-694-6735
Yah, thats been my experience, its probably the only commercial solution
I'd buy.
Its a complete platform - Hardware, OS, Software
Also, Ironport is supporting some sort of "Bonded Sender" program, so that
may be a key thing to look for as well when buying something like this.
Tom (UnitedLayer) writes on 11/19/2003 5:13 PM:
Also, Ironport is supporting some sort of "Bonded Sender" program, so that
may be a key thing to look for as well when buying something like this.
We use their bonded sender plus (a subset of bonded sender that is 100% confirmed optin).
We are using Barracuda Networks instead, but it's also a complete
platform with hardware, OS, and software. So far it's doing the job very
well, and we are one week into our trial so far.
Dee
Any idea what OS its based on?
Mandrake
DJ