Independent E-mail quotas

[nobaloney]

Most of us have probably noticed the big-guy competition (for example, 1&1 offers webhosting including a certain amount of space for the website, and mailboxes separately.

Something similar to:

50Gb webhosting
250 mailboxes, up to 2GB each.

Forgetting for a moment how much space each account would take if you didn't oversell, and whether or not you can afford this...

How would you offer this?

If you've done this, how? Have you put home on a partition with quotas enabled, and then put emails on a different partition, and enforced quotas with DirectAdmin?

Or something else entirely?

Or do you just not make this kind of offering?

Thanks in advance for any comments.

Jeff

 

[SeLLeRoNe]

Actually im not thinking about this kind of offer, my customer are (most of them) private user and well use something like 10 email per account at the maximum.

Regards

 

[nobaloney]

I agree (and I'm sure that's what most of 1&1's clients are as well). This isn't about people actually using large amounts of largle email accounts without giving them a large total space for webhosting; it's really about marketing. But if we market it, then we need to provision it.

Jeff

 

[zEitEr]

In my mind, it's too senseless unless there is a good backup system, as taring and syncing of that big amount of messages will take long time. So if I were to do something of that kind, I'd organize a standalone storage for user emails. And I'd be running only weekly backups not oftener.