iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 Reviews:
 ·Comcast
| reply to gunther_01
Re: How many of you use hosted email services? 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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 Killa200Premium
join:2005-12-02
Southeast TN | 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
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 Reviews:
·Comcast
| 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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