| Posted by esultanzada, 02-04-2017, 10:39 AM | |
Hello,
One of my customer asked me the follow requirement for hosting email:
1. 900 email accounts 25 GB space per account
2. Backup and restore.
25 email accounts with backup capabilities.
3. 99.9% uptime
Zero single point of failure
High availability
High reachability
4. Access emails anywhere
Mobile.
Webmail.
Outlook.
5. Complete synchronization across devices.
Complete mail sync including folders on all the devices using IMAP protocol.
6. Data security and compliance.
Advanced anti-spam and anti-virus, Mail send/receive restrictions, Attachment restrictions, Mail access restrictions, Auto forward management, Password policy, Disclaimers, etc.
7. Webmail
Customized webmail preview.
Customized webmail URL.
8. Secure Mail
Encrypted and secure mail sending and receiving using SSL as well as TLS over webmail or POP or IMAP.
9. Large mailing list Support
Mailing list with 1000 or more members.
10. Calendar and contact sync
Global Contact list accessible by everyone.
Complete calendar and contact sync between outlook client and webmail.
11. Reports
MIS reports on user creations, space utilized and mailing activity.
12. User Management
Adding, Deleting and renaming of users.
Controlling inactive users.
Decreasing and increasing mailbox quota.
Restricting users not be able to send specific amount of mails per hour.
Restricting users to access their emails from specific devices only.
13. Seamless transition
Data migration from existing service.
Importing of current emails and contacts to new email of each user.
Which data center is good for this email hosting requirement? which method or control panel is best solution for this ? please provide me more helpful information that we can handle these emails with best performance.
Thanks in advance.
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| Posted by Srv24x7, 02-04-2017, 11:21 AM | |
Hi,
Requirement #1) 900 email accounts 25 GB space per account : This is huge almost 22500 GB of space about 22 TB space. You will have to put your request across multiple DC and check what they offer on this.
I think you can use Zimbra for this email management..
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| Posted by user54321, 02-04-2017, 11:25 AM | |
better let somebody handle that who knows what he is doing, E-Mails can contain confidential stuff and important stuff.
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| Posted by racknationcr, 02-04-2017, 11:52 AM | |
This is the job for an MS Exchange cluster , in ball park figures what you would require
1- At least 1 ( preferably 2 ) active directory servers , these can be small machines nothing fancy , an idea ... 1 Quad Core CPU , 8GB of Ram each , 2 x 120GB of SSD Drives in Raid 1
2 - One exchange DAG Witness Server , again nothing fancy , can have the same configuration as above
3- I would recommend at least 4 robust inbox servers, an idea ... 2 x Intel Hexacores or Octocores , 64GB of RAM , OS partition = 2 x 480GB SSD Drives in Raid 1
STORAGE ... now here comes the tricky part
I would connect 2 servers together to 1 storage server and 2 other servers to another storage server via iSCSI using 10Ge connections from the mail box servers to the storage , Evidently you need big storage per storage server so we are talking preferably of SAS Drives 3TB , around 20TB of effective storage per server.
The DAG would copy the email database from 1 storage server to the other to maintain it in sync
Its a tricky setup but very robust , we have something similar for our hosted exchange services , feel free to ask if you are indeed interested in some help with something like this.
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| Posted by jackpx, 02-05-2017, 08:24 AM | |
go with Office 365
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| Posted by madRoosterTony, 02-06-2017, 01:50 AM | |
As mentioned, based on disk space you will need a few Servers and a SAN. If the client does not want to spend the licensing fees on Microsoft Exchange. You can look at Zarafa, which has a clustering option. There is also Zimbra that has a community version.
If you want a Windows solution without pricing as bad as exchange, you might look at SmarterMail.
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| Posted by Collabora, 02-06-2017, 01:55 AM | |
Asking those questions indicates to me that you should hire someone to deploy your solution or have someone host it for you
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| Posted by jsborn, 02-06-2017, 05:54 AM | |
If I were you I would directly contacted the companies and ask what they can do and how much is that going to cost me. That is the best way in this situation I think.
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| Posted by BlaZeX, 02-06-2017, 09:32 AM | |
Why not offer him G Suite ? (previously known as Google Apps for work)
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