Scaling of imap servers

[Ramprasad A.P]

Quoting Lars Schimmer <l.schimmer at cgv.tugraz.at>:

> On 2011-06-15 13:33, Ram wrote:
>> We need to create a platform for create a large number of cyrus accounts
>> that can scale indefinitely
>> I could start with just 2k  users  but could have 20x the number of
>> accounts by next year.
>> I was thinking of taking a cloud-based machine at amazon or rackspace
>> and scale hardware vertically  as required.
>> But the problem with rackspace or amazon is they do not offer much
>> storage and cap the total storage that can be used.
>
> Send all email on free base to amazon? Why should amazon get all your
> emails? If you do not care about security and privacy, you can also use
> googleMail.
>
>> I would like to know how do you guys do the same
>
> Have a look at fastmail.fm - they have setup a fairly big serverfarm
> with cyrus.
>
>> Thanks
>> Ram
>

Using outsourced mail is not possible


The biggest problem is harddisk space
Every user is looking for huge amounts of diskspace even if I need  
20GB per user I cant get so much disk space at affordable cost.