There's a third question: storage

mfoss — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 14:51:56 +0000

There's a third question that you will face sometime:

Millions of users will generate not only a lot of CPU consumption, but also a lot of storage consumption. That load may overflow the Mnesia capacity, so you would need to use PostgreSQL or similar. Or even split the user base in several groups, to get several databases each one of adequate size for the existing software and hardware.

How does Skype, Google Talk, AIM... deal with that? Your experts will have to make some research.

And this is a rhetoric question, no need to answer: are you sure you will attract millions of concurrent users to your service (whatever it is) in short term (one or two years)? If you are so sure you probably have a bright and innovative idea.

You probably want to post your message on the JADMIN mailing list at www.jabber.org too, so you get responses (or even more questions).

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There's a third question: storage