[Klug-general] KLUG October Meeting

[Guillaume Pasquet]

Actually, I have currently 10 users but it would be wiser to account 
around 20 regarding how fast the company grows.

As Jeremy pointed out, all that would happen through a secured VPN 
access. We currently share a system designed for a sister company based 
in Switzerland and the speed of the VPN is ridiculous.

They access around 200Mo of data per day (this figure is not very 
reliable though) on the samba shares.

I do not know the volume of emails send per day, but our biggest mailbox 
weighs 2.5GB and you can count around 1GB of emails per person.

The website would of course need to be up 24/7 but it doesn't support 
much dynamic content, it is mostly static with only a bit of php here 
and there.

Thx for your help,

Guillaume

Jeremy Hooks wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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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