1 Topic by spudtrooper

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Topic: Scaling to 10k, 100k, 1Ms users

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I'm spec'ing out to serve initially 10k's of users and scaling this to 100k's in a year and potentially 1M's in multiple years. My plan is to use:
- AWS RDS (MySQL) for accounts
- S3 (or potentially EFS, though this would be costly) for storage
- Multiple installations in EC2 behind a load balancer

Given that we're using a shared DB and shared storage, any idea on the head room for scaling horizontally and supporting this number of users?

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2 Reply by hws

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Re: Scaling to 10k, 100k, 1Ms users

With 1 million potential users you should really use another setup. Like Wildduck or similar.

3 Reply by ZhangHuangbin

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Re: Scaling to 10k, 100k, 1Ms users

spudtrooper wrote:

I'm spec'ing out to serve initially 10k's of users and scaling this to 100k's in a year and potentially 1M's in multiple years.

I wonder whether it will come true, because if incorrect prediction may cost a lot money and time to design and implement the system.

Also, how many active mailboxes with this 1M accounts? and how many emails will be sent / received per day? Is a load balance cluster (or a simple load balancer) really required?