On Mon, 2003-04-07 at 22:59, Daniel Mayer wrote:
On Monday 07 April 2003 05:00 am, Brion Vibber wrote:
Yes, that would be more than enough to host the
mail (and perhaps the
backup dumps?). Best talk to Jimbo and Jason about transporting and
setting up hardware.
Cool. Do what you want/can with the hardware but 4 gigs for the /home
directory for mailing lists archive and Wikipedia backups would be a bit
tight, no?
Presently, mailing list archives come to 450 megs, while complete
database dumps total just shy of a gig. It would be trivial to toss in
another hard drive if/when needed.
It would also be great if this could be used at piclab
as Lee suggested since
that would save me 30 bucks in shipping (Lee and I live about 30 minutes from
each other) and the mail server would be easy for Lee to fix if needed.
If that's something Lee is willing to set up, that sounds great to me.
So long as there's not a major meteor strike in the Pacific that takes
out the whole of California. :) I don't know if Lee would want to be
hosting the wiki backup dumps on his line for public download, though;
they're serious bandwidth suckers.
How
much bandwidth would all the mailing lists suck anyway? IMO it would be best
to keep them all on the same box wherever they end-up.
As a very very rough estimate, about half a gigabyte per month. (Taken
by multiplying the size of the March 2003 list archives for the big 3
wikien-l, wikipedia-l, and wikitech-l by their numbers of subscribers,
and padding the resulting figure of ~380MB.) Assume growth.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)