[Klug-general] KLUG October Meeting

[Jeremy Hooks]

I reckon what's best depends on your requirements.

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.

If you have an historical data, that may be useful, it will allow you to see
the sort of load and bandwidth previously need.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Regards.

Jeremy.

2008/10/9 Etenil <etenil at etenilsrealm.nl>

> Hi girls and guys,
>
> I'd need an opinion about a problem I'm facing. I need to host our
> company's email, website and shared directories (samba shares actually)
> on the web. However, I wonder if it is best to have all on one server or
> to have dedicated servers for each task?
>
> Thx for your help,
>
> Guillaume
>
>
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> Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 14:35:22 +0100
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> I have signed up and am hoping to be there, childcare allowing.
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