Hi,

I was about to set up a web server of my own (on my Sempron system) and I am going to provide accounts to my friends for e-mail, a thought struck me, when I will provide e-mail accounts to my friends that will naturally take uo my system space. so if i go ahead and provide a space of 20 MB then it will aprox a use of 200 MB of disk space for 10 of us. How does the e-mail giants like Yahoo! and MSN manage these many users with 2 GB space to all these million of users and how on the earth they manage the accounts that get created every new hour. Is there some technology they use.