I followed this HOWTO for CentOS: http://www.howtoforge.com/virtual-u...rier-mysql-and-squirrelmail-centos-6.3-x86_64 on a 1GB VPS (digital ocean) and everything works fine. To save some money I'm thinking about reducing it to 512M. Would this be enough, I rarely use Squirrel and it has less than 10 email accounts. I could uninstall squirrel if it were a factor in the resize. Any input appriciated. And thanks for the great HOWTO
I have been running a 512 droplet since November of last year. This is my personal email server basically its http://www.howtoforge.com/the-perfe...bind-mysql-php-postfix-dovecot-and-ispconfig3 With things like postgrey, postscreen and dkim added. Have roundcube and horde as my webmail clients. Handles only a few email accounts no real websites The virus/spam scanning on email can peak the cpu at 100% but it usually just a few seconds. Just make sure you setup the swap file, memory is tight.
Thanks for the reply. If the worst, that I can reasonably expect to happen, is a slowdown in the A/V that's acceptable. Also thanks for mentioning postgrey and postscreen. I'll have to look into both. I never realized how much spam I get untill I ran my mail server -- even with Amavisd and SpamAssassian
