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HA/High-Volume Deplyoments (planned on Linux)
Question asked by TK - 7/31/2024 at 12:52 AM
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Anybody (including Smartermail) able to share how they have implemented (propose) a High Availability/High Volume setup for their own installations and also how that has worked out for them in terms of complexity or any challenges that have come along?

  • Have you offloaded domain data to shared storage?
  • Have you offloaded smartermail server settings to shared storage?
  • Have you implemented failover at all or are you relying on any other mechanisms?
    • Besides: documentation states failover is Windows only - any statements on this? Target is Linux.
  • Are you even spinning up servers/containers per customer?
  • Is it possible to distribute mailboxes of the same domain onto multiple smartermail instances and having coordination nodes (proxies) to keep track of the user<->node assignments?
  • Any other means of load distribution?
  • Any question missed here?
This discussion is not about spam processing which we have offloaded to front end gateway. it is solely a discussion around the mailbox servers. The documentation on failover suggests shared storage, buth the High Volume documentation is not talking about this at all. 

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Matt Petty Replied
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"Is it possible to distribute mailboxes of the same domain onto multiple smartermail instances and having coordination nodes (proxies) to keep track of the user<->node assignments?"

Regarding this stuff, Zach mentioned here some things were looking at in the background that revolve around very large user deployments across servers.
https://portal.smartertools.com/community/a96358/need-a-feature-that-force-ip-rotation-at-random-and-or-ever-x-times.aspx
Matt Petty Software Developer SmarterTools Inc. www.smartertools.com

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