E-mail solutions

MartMax

Hi All

I'm probably posting to a wrong forum but I give my shot anyway. A friend has started a biz and is looking for all-in-one easy e-mail solutions, ie. pop3, webmail and self-administer (eg like cpanel or ensim). He has at least 10 employees and need a quick setup but not looking into running own server (eg. hooking upto external SMTP service) at the moment. Probably later when the biz really make it.

I have been looking around for some cheap hostings, the features and stuff are more than required with exception of SPACE. Considering the biz is a consultancy biz, they expect daily e-mail usage is high, forwarding various documents and stuff. We dunno how to estimate this but suppose limiting an e-mail box to 20MB is quite squeezing especially if the user retains every mails received. We also consider if it is possible to move around all mailbox contents from 3rd provide to own server if that's gonna happen.

So guys, any suggestion ?

zod

1. Don't rule out MS Small Business server which is quite competitive at €399 for 5 cals on a cheap dell server ( SC420 or such )

2. www.Directnic.com do cheap domains, email and hosting solutions - if you use pop3 - then there is no real mailbox limit if the email account is used frequently ( and not configured to leave the mail on the server )

3. if you want to keep it local - just search for .ie hosting on google and people like hostingireland etc can put together a solution for you.

steve-hosting36

Any irish host can give you a solution, we do mail hosting (note from mod: stop advertising your prices in your post - last warning) per month as do many other hosts. Hosting in-house is only recommended for very large enterprises, where security and 'ownership' rank higher than uptime and service. Ideally, no company should host their own mail server

mneylon

steve-hosting36 wrote:

Ideally, no company should host their own mail server

That is the stupidest comment I've seen in a long time.

It makes a lot of sense to have your own mail server in your office, especially as a lot of companies use the server for more than just mail.

Having said that, if they do not want the administrative overhead initially most hosts offer pop3 and IMAP with webmail these days. Space per mailbox shouldn't be an issue. What can be a problem is gigantic attachments

(trying to send 80 MB attachments via email is not a good idea)

bcloh

Check here :-
http://www.altn.com/
Very reliable and easy to set up.

steve-hosting36

Ah well Michele, lets not argue about who's stupid

I was making the point that outsourcing a service as critical as email is a better idea that doing it inhouse. What happens when the power goes, the dsl line goes, there is a fire, there is a hardware problem, the guy who runs the mail server leaves.

You're in the outsourcing business Michele, you should know better

mneylon

steve-hosting36 wrote:

Ah well Michele, lets not argue about who's stupid

As usual you find the English language hard to comprehend *sigh*
I never said that you were stupid. I said the comment was stupid.

steve-hosting36 wrote:

I was making the point that outsourcing a service as critical as email is a better idea that doing it inhouse.

No. You were trying to make a sale.

steve-hosting36 wrote:

You're in the outsourcing business Michele, you should know better

I am strong believer in selling people appropriate solutions.

steve-hosting36

Honestly Michele, must every post vaguely relate to hosting degrade in such a way! In my opinion, hosting email in house is very very seldom 'appropriate'. You simply need to differ with my opinion, not act 'high and mighty'. A little humility is a good thing, and everything you disagree with is not 'stupid'. Enough of this already.

Ph3n0m

Apologies to original poster, but this thread is closed as it is bordering on a bitch-fest.