Paul Tyma, creator of the great service Mailinator wrote a post about the architecture of the system. The reason I point to it is because of the simplicity/beauty of the system. Here is a short couple quotes:
day. I have seen hourly spikes that would result in about 5million in a
day. In addition, the system also services several thousand web users
and several thousand RSS users per day.
In the world of email services, this probably isn't all that much. The
most interesting part to me is that the complete set of hardware that
mailinator uses is one little server. Just one. A very modest machine
with an AMD 2Ghz Athlon processor, 1G of ram (although it really
doesn't need that much), and a boring (IDE , low-performance) 80G hard
drive. And honestly, its really not very busy at all. I've read the
blogs of some copycat services of Mailinator where their owners were
upgrading their servers to some big iron. This was really the impetus
for me writing down this document – to share a different point of view.
Reminds me of how Brent and I typically approach similar ideas. Take SimpleFilter and Blogchat for instance. Without going into details, they both were designed to run and operate as very simple services on extremely modest hardware but also with the ability to scale well.
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