Dovecot and Solr on the same server or on different

Riccardo Bicelli r.bicelli at gmail.com
Thu Jun 20 13:12:21 EEST 2019


I agree that is a small mail load.
But I mean, if you are running virtual machines (like me)  it is
better to split the roles and leave solr on its own.

Il giorno gio 20 giu 2019 alle ore 11:51 @lbutlr via dovecot
<dovecot at dovecot.org> ha scritto:
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> On 20 Jun 2019, at 01:21, Riccardo Bicelli via dovecot <dovecot at dovecot.org> wrote:
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> > <dovecot at dovecot.org> ha scritto:
> >> what would you suggest? What are the pros and cons  for having dovecot and Solr on the same or different hots?
> >>
> >> I have about 800 accounts, some millions of mails and about 2 TB of zipped mails.
> >>
> >> From the recent experiences regarding maintenance I’d prefer different hosts for each.
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> > Hi, from a scalability perspective I would put solr on a separate host.
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> With that small a mail load?
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> I mean, the scalability issues will be a long time coming unless the hardware is really weak, and the headache of two servers not to mention the constant communication between them…
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> But if that’s what you would rather do anyway, then sure.
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