iansltx
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| reply to mtroup
Re: How many of you use hosted email services?
GMail has a "partner edition" that you can co-brand as an ISP. WildBlue, TOAST.net, CavTel and others use it. I believe the system costs very little per user per month, even on the higher service tier. I'd check that out.
Also, if you wanted to roll your own solution, CPanel/WHM is a decent way to do it. Though personally if you're going to rent a server, get it form a big outfit like SoftLayer and bundle CPanel in...it'll cost you $25/month instead of $40. SL actually has virtualized servers for $100 per month these days, and they should be more than capable of doing e-mail etc. |
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gunther_01
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| said by iansltx  :GMail has a "partner edition" that you can co-brand as an ISP. WildBlue, TOAST.net, CavTel and others use it. I believe the system costs very little per user per month, even on the higher service tier. I'd check that out. Also, if you wanted to roll your own solution, CPanel/WHM is a decent way to do it. Though personally if you're going to rent a server, get it form a big outfit like SoftLayer and bundle CPanel in...it'll cost you $25/month instead of $40. SL actually has virtualized servers for $100 per month these days, and they should be more than capable of doing e-mail etc. I'm not flaming, but why would I want to spend $400+ per year for a server, when I can have it hosted for less then $100 per year with unlimited bandwidth, space, and 2500 email accounts. AND have it taken care of for me on the back end Cpanel included?
Never had any major problems with my hosting company. and after I looked almost a Million domains there.
I kind of have issues with Gmail and their, this is a trial deal, or we may or may not keep this service kind of wordings for their offereings.
I also have a Ispconfig server going for our own hosting services. |
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iansltx
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| Didn't think you were flaming  . You just do things differently than I would.
My college is working on moving over to a GMail-based system. hould help our horrible network/system uptime (I don't think we even have three nines...heck, we probably have less than two). The more stuff you move to boxed hosted services, the easier things should be. If they aren't, find a better hosted service.
I personally wouldn't host stuff on BlueHost, DreamHost, 1&1, GoDaddy, etc. but that's just me. Big shared hosts like that one (and LunarPages' shared service) tend to have problems with overloading their servers, having outages, etc. Not good when Joe Six-Pack calls in and says "I haven't had e-mail for SIX DAYS, FIX IT NOW!!!1!" and you can't do anything because the shared server is broken.
Granted, BlueHost seems to be decent about service, though they load servers relatively heavily. I'm just not a huge fan of using shared hosting for anything more than a personal or maybe small business account.
If I rolled my own solution, I'd probably get a VPS and use some high-end OSS mail-server solution with its own frontend. But that's just me. In reality I'd get Google Apps and have done with it. |
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Killa200
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| that is something i agree with. If i were going to outsource this outside of my office, i would make sure it is at the least on a vps.... and even then i have seen providers overload their vmware / xenos / etc setups with too little physical hardware for the virtual servers on board.
Its all about fine tuning your choosings... just like everything else you run into in your business. Personally I'd do it on a dedicated server outside of the business at a data center.... just for the pure fact that i see a lot of people generally not going through the effort to use and learn outlook. They instead stick with web mail. In this manner they aren't downloading all their messages, so this could actually save your incoming bandwidth by having all the messages delivered locally.
Also if they vacation and check their email, they are using off network bandwidth to do so. |
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iansltx
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| As an added bonus, pulling down mail and pushing attachments to the server doesn't use bandwidth these days in places like SoftLayer and SingleHop. So if people use webmail they actually tends to be nearly symmetric bandwidth-wise. Not that 2TB of bandwidth wouldn't be enough for an e-mail server anyway. |
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