An informal survey was completed about a month ago; results are on the Wiki at: http://acs-wiki.andrew.cmu.edu/twiki/bin/view/Cyrus/SampleCyrusHardware
The closest configuration is more then double your user count, and is runing on a >5 year old Sun workstation, so I think the question isn't about how powerfully you want your hardware to be, but what level of quality you want/need it to be. A build it yourself, $1000 box, is likely far more powerful then you need for 200 users; if you start talking about hardware redundancy, hot swap drives, PCI, processors, memory... On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 13:32, Jason Williams wrote: > Good morning everyone. > > After doing some initial research and asking a few questions about Cyrus, > i've decided that I want to use cyrus for our company mail server. Seems to > be exactly what we are looking for and there are so many things that I like > about cyrus that just make it right. > > Anyway, I wanted to get some suggestions for a hardware setup for my mail > server. > > Our current main corporate office has 45 people. However, that number will > rise to about 100 over the next few years. > Also, we will have some Branch Offices over time and these will include > 10-15 people. Eventually, im going to guess and say 150-200 employees for > the company. > > I will be running FreeBSD 4.9. > I cant decide between Postfix and Sendmail. :) > Also, I will put up webmail. > Apache, plus SSL, TLS etc. > > With that in mind, any suggestions for hardware? > > > Thanks. > > Jason
