<div dir="ltr">I reckon what's best depends on your requirements.<br><br>The thought of running Samba on an Internet server scares me a little, though presumably you would VPN or tunnel it. I have no idea how much load and bandwidth would be required to run samba, it probably comes down to your own situation, e.g. number users and their activity (excuse me if I'm stating the obvious). Likewise the same can be said for your web and email.<br>
<br>If you have an historical data, that may be useful, it will allow you to see the sort of load and bandwidth previously need.<br><br>Virtual machines might be the answer as it will allow you to see how it goes and redeploy onto separate servers without too much extra work, but then virtual servers have their own performance issue and configuration problems.<br>
<br>One major advantage of separate servers is that you don't have all your eggs in one basket, so if for example your mail server gets overloaded dealing with spam, atleast your users will still be able to get the files and customers can access your website.<br>
<br>Other issues to consider is availability/business continuity, your website might need to be up 24/7 because you lose sales the whole time it is down, so you might want two load balanced servers. So you can update/reboot one and still have a service available.<br>
<br>I don't think there is an easy answer. At work we have both web and email running on a single dedicated server - but we're a charity and that is the most the management are prepared to pay for - heck before that we were running both on VPS.<br>
<br>Regards.<br><br>Jeremy.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/10/9 Etenil <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:etenil@etenilsrealm.nl">etenil@etenilsrealm.nl</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi girls and guys,<br>
<br>
I'd need an opinion about a problem I'm facing. I need to host our<br>
company's email, website and shared directories (samba shares actually)<br>
on the web. However, I wonder if it is best to have all on one server or<br>
to have dedicated servers for each task?<br>
<br>
Thx for your help,<br>
<br>
Guillaume<br>
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