The Best Email Server You Never Heard of

Back when Hotmail was the biggest thing in email, WebCom deployed a secret weapon that turned the tide in the email wars. WebCom SMTP (WSMTP) was a multi-phase project to create an entirely new email server from the ground up, something that could handle thousands of emails per second and HUGE attachments. But most importantly, it was designed to allow sysadmins to sleep at night!

WebCom started out humbly using off the shelf tools for the time, Sendmail for email, NCSA httpd for web serving, PERL for our web control panel, and Sybase for our customer database. NCSA httpd was the first component that needed upgrading, it was replaced with Netscape Enterprise Server.

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Memory speed vs capacity

Memory speed isn’t often a consideration when building a system except for those seeking ultimate Overclocking performance. While OC memory exceeds the JEDEC standards, there are other considerations which may rob you of maximum performance.

I will discuss memory technologies ranging from DDR2 FB-DIMM to modern DDR4 ECC memory and how CPU memory controller limitations affect the actual performance you can expect. The TL;DR is that when you add more DIMMs per channel or more ranks, the memory frequency goes down.

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