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Reliability is fundamental so I'll buy from a vendor: if something |
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(hardware) goes wrong you can call them to solve and stop. |
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Talking about storage, I'll use SCSI drives and a RAID1 hardware |
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controller. Ram more than processor is fundamental so try to keep always |
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a slot free for future upgrades and don't buy ram from vendor but buy it |
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yourself : it's cheap! |
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You should deploy what you know more, since , especially with so many |
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users, if something goes wrong you have to be fast and effective. |
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An inhouse mail server could help to backup mails. You could use imap |
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[give a try to dovecot, is AMAZING!] and let users access throught the |
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best imap client, thunderbird [m$ told it :D |
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http://blogs.msdn.com/omars/archive/2004/02/19/76061.aspx]. |
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File Server and mail server on the mail server? Well if the hardware is |
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well tuned [check this 3d about xfs tune, with tips on raid1 hw |
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http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-397320-highlight-xfs+danneggiato.html |
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it's in italian but robotranlators can help you ;) ] and the amount of |
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data is note HUGE you could do it. Number and the size of files matter |
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either on the fileserver side etheir on the attachments. Use maildir to |
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improve performances and avoid mailboxes corruption. |
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Talking about backup you can deploy different kind of type. If all the |
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files are on the server you can use another server as backup or use |
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tapes . If some files are on the clients, amanda coul help you in |
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backing up everything you have . |
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These are just some tips : good luck! |
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