object storage

[Tom Johnson]

I went to them to discuss 300-500,000 users, right after dovecot was  acquired by OpenXChange. The terms were onerous, to say the least.  It was straight per-user pricing with no flexibility for non-standard usage patterns.  Mostly they wanted to talk about OpenXChange, in which I have absolutely no interest. 

I walked away undecided: would I look at developing my own object storage back-end for dovecot and open-source it?  Or would I abandon dovecot entirely?  I'm still undecided.  

> On Sep 28, 2015, at 6:18 AM, Paolo Cravero <paolo.cravero at csi.it> wrote:
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>> Timo Sirainen wrote:
>> Our typical projects have several million user accounts. I think 100k
>> users is around the minimum.
> 
> Interesting. So che choice for object storage is driven by the number of
> accounts rather than the amount of data stored? For example I am heading
> towards 10 TB online with "just" 10k users. It wouldn't be worth?
> 
> Paolo