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Title: users
Post by: kiwispaniol on January 20, 2010, 07:15:20 AM

Can anyone tell me how many users can SME server supports

Cheers

Title: Re: users
Post by: shriddx on January 20, 2010, 01:36:31 PM

Don't think SME Server itself applies any limit.
Any limitation would be dependant on CentOS and operational constraints (eg speed issues with increasing numbers of account accesses, etc), I think?

Title: Re: users
Post by: Stefano on January 20, 2010, 02:27:41 PM

Quote from: kiwispaniol on January 20, 2010, 07:15:20 AM

Can anyone tell me how many users can SME server supports

explain your problem, thank you :-)

Title: Re: users
Post by: kiwispaniol on January 24, 2010, 04:22:20 AM

Thank you for your help

I want to deploy SME as mail server for about 350-400 users. So I want to know whether SME can handle the load. I read somewhere on net that SME server can support up to 500 users accounts, and some places says 150 to 250.

Any info will be much appreciated


Cheers

M.Freeman

Title: Re: users
Post by: Stefano on January 24, 2010, 10:51:42 AM

hi

the limit is the hardware ;-)
anyway, hundreds of users on a single server is not a wise idea; you should think about an HA solution.

Title: Re: users
Post by: kiwispaniol on January 24, 2010, 09:44:07 PM

Thanks again

Would you replace an exchange 2003 with sme server?

Title: Re: users
Post by: Stefano on January 24, 2010, 09:59:41 PM

Quote from: kiwispaniol on January 24, 2010, 09:44:07 PM

Thanks again

Would you replace an exchange 2003 with sme server?

well, I've just replaced 2 w2008 servers (one with exchange 2007) with a single SME server with Zarafa (http://wiki.contribs.org/Zarafa) :)

but the users are.... 20

I repeat, users' limit is an hw limit (cpu, ram).. but I'd never put 300 users on a single server..

btw, the exchange you are talking about is  a single instance? with 400 users? no cluster? :)