[thelist] OT: Email forwarding service recommendations (long term + free)

[Daniel J. Cody]

wowza. 25 emails to me in the last hour from thelist members asking to
get m.e.o accounts made me get my ass in gear to get the application
form working again. :)

http://members.evolt.org for those of you that emailed me please, the
application form is working again. thanks for the kick in the ass :)

<tip type="RAID Arrays">
In general, RAID5 disk arrays should only be used on
machines/applications/mount points that are *not* disk I/O intensive.

The things that make RAID5 attractive - redundancy, parity, etc - from a
reliability standpoint make it a nightmare when looked at from a
performance standpoint.

If you have a machine that requires heavy disk I/O (mailservers,
fileservers, etc) a RAID0(striping) or RAID0+1(mirroring) is your best
bet. For machines where reliability is key and there isn't a lot of
filesystem activity(webservers, DB servers, etc) because data is stored
in RAM(hopefully) RAID5 is your friend. :)

</tip>

.djc.




Daniel J. Cody wrote:
> Aleem -
>
> If you already have a members.evolt.org account, thats great and feel
> free to use it for what you need. If you don't have one and would like
> to sign up, email me directly with your www.evolt.org username or userid
> and i'll set you up with an account.
>
> I'm not accepting new members.evolt.org accounts right now from the
> general public, but I'll bend the rules for people on thelist :)