Topic: How Many User Accounts Can SME Developer Support?

[Mike]

Could somebody tell me what is the maximum number of individual user email accounts that the SME Developer Edition will support on a system just with a primary site, no virtual domains?

[Dan Brown]

There is no pre-set maximum; it will depend on your hardware and what else is being done with the server.

[Mike]

Thanks am looking at 500 users on a 1G server 1G Ram

[Michiel]

I've created 2000 users on a 800Mhz/256MB machine and did some testing. No problem what so ever, but I probably don't want all of them to connect to the SME server at the same time.

In other words, there is no technical limit, but depending on what the users want to do on the system there might be a practical limit (for example limited bandwidth). I know of several schools who have happily installed > 500 users on one machine with at peak times about 40 simultaneous users. Given the right hardware and bandwidth this still works fine.

Michiel