[thelist] mail account application

> If the sticking point is that the site needs to be running
> CF, then there's no earthly reason why you need to be
> on NT. CF has had a Solaris version for a while, and the
> Linux version is at Release Candidate (ie final, final,
> final (probably) beta) stage.

True, but I have no experience on Solaris boxes (only NT, IRIX and
Linux) and this site unfortunately has a very short development time
period so I'm having to stick with what I know for most of the site.

> But I wonder whether you'd want the mail server to
> sit on the same box as the web/CF box(es - you're
> thought of clustering for performance?). Would it not
> be far better to have a dedicated mail server? Because
> Amanda's right - if the web site goes down, it's massively
> annoying, but users will try again later. If the *mail*
> goes down, it's a disaster.

Normally no, I know it's a terrible idea, but the client isn't willing
to spring for more than one box at this point so I'm kind of stuck
between a rock and a hard place. If his site does well he's willing to
put some more servers up for clustering and offloading of tasks (DB,
mail, etc) but at this point his capital just won't cover that. This
business gets rough when the client starts dictating limitations and
the list of limitations is longer than the feature list ... what's an
IT guy to do? Thanks for the advice ...

- jc

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James C. Diggans               jdiggans@excelsior-web.com
Excelsior Technologies, Inc.   http://www.excelsior-web.com
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