Re: [vps-mail] using a Single VPS2 for centralized email

["Norman R. Prevett" <norm@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi:

Perhaps not squarely on the point, but ... we recently moved clients off 
the Signature platform, which uses a common email scheme because of the 
following: Spam and virus storms were magnified creating situations 
where mail queues were so large incoming mail was delayed several hours. 
Frequent outages occurred because the mail service was so slow 
responding that client email sessions timed out. None of these problems 
may be of concern for the casual email user, but for customers who 
"live" in their email, it was serious enough to cause them to want to 
move up or move out.

Matt Cohen wrote:

> Sorry to come in late on this, but i'm trying to weigh the benfits of 
> centralized anti-spam and anti-virus scanning for all email by putting 
> it on a single VPS2, versus distributed servers so that in case of a 
> failure I don't have all my clients calling me at once, just 1/6th of 
> them (I have 6 VPS accounts with 20-30 sub-hosts on each one).
>
> Also, have you run against problems of clients wanting pop accounts 
> like "bob" and you've already got a 'bob' on the system?
>
> This would be my first VPS2, so i'd probably move my own account over 
> there first and then take my time moving everyone else over.
>
> Matt


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