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List:       info-cyrus
Subject:    Re: [POLL] virtual domains and Murder
From:       Joe Rhett <jrhett () isite ! net>
Date:       2002-07-26 2:12:05
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> > But for an ISP or HSP (Hosting Service Provider), it would be too
> > expensive and require too much set-up time to allocate a separate Murder
> > for each customer. The same would apply for setting up a separate
> > standalone Cyrus for each customer. Hence virtual hosting.
> 
> If all of your customers are large enough to require their own murder, I'm
> impressed ;)  For most clients, you could virtual host them on a single
> server and be done with it.  However, if one of your customer spans two
> servers, they're likely large enough to be given special consideration
> anyway (at that point you're talking about several thousand users from a
> single customer, when I worked at a top-20 web hosting company in at the
> end of the 90s, the largest clients were on the order of 20-30 users).
 
I think he's trying to say (and I'm trying to say) the the I/HSP's goal is
to not have to concern oneself with which server any given user gets put
on.  For example, I have 3 servers with 50 clients with 20 mailboxes each.
If one day every single one of those clients hires 10 new people, I want to
build a new server and put those 500 new users on it. With no thought to
where the other users for the same virtual domain exist.  That's a 1-day
job.  Rearranging the servers so that users from the same virtual domain
host on the same server would be a major project, and the users would not
understand the wait.

The goal here is to make the guessing game of which user in which domain 
on which server == who cares?

Did I explain better?  

-- 
Joe Rhett                                                      Chief Geek
JRhett@ISite.Net                                      ISite Services, Inc.
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