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Suggestions for a low cost email server
- Thread starter SideShowBob
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Quote from Traveler:
Hosting is so cheap now I can't imagine any good reason not to outsource email servers.
Traveler
i runa hosting company.
you are referfing to 'budget hosts' - the ones that offer single-digit/mth charges.
be forewarned - there are lots of issues with these companies and if you thruely think that decent quality hosting is that cheap - well - check out www.webhostingtalk.com - read some of the horror stories about others like you.
bottom line - for a service that cheap, do not expect any type or reliability or support - you forefit those at that price.
read the items at the link in my above post - godaddy has it's own problems. they don't even run their hosting, and god help you if you buy a domain from them and want to leave.Quote from jebara:
You should look at godaddy.com
They have an email service for domains you get as domains and a total of 2gigs of storage. You can also get a nice webmail log in screen and pop access.
Why do you want to host your own mail server just curious? So that you get to have your own domain name? If you just want to have your own domain name why not try these steps
Get a domain name through GoDaddy
point your NS1 and NS2 to everydns.net for free DNS hosting.
Point your MX record to Google hosting after you sign up with them https://www.google.com/a/
It gives you secure pop3 and secure smtp and they maintain archiving and backup. nothing to worry about.
Get a domain name through GoDaddy
point your NS1 and NS2 to everydns.net for free DNS hosting.
Point your MX record to Google hosting after you sign up with them https://www.google.com/a/
It gives you secure pop3 and secure smtp and they maintain archiving and backup. nothing to worry about.
Quote from steve0617:
Respectfully, it is not suicide to run a Windows platform mail server. It's not like you're running NASA for God's sake. It's just another program and the ArgoSoft one is very easy and very stable.
And you do not HAVE to have a static IP for a server, although of course it's preferable. All of the dynamic DNS products will work just fine with a small Windows based email server.
You wouldn't run a company's Exchange server like that, but for this guy's personal home based needs, the small stuff is fine.
steve,
to clarify,
I know about Dynamic DNS, and it works...
my comments about the windows platform has nothing to do with Argosoft's software or any other mail server software... it is the platform it is running on.
I should know, I am a network administrator by profession... and the number of machines I come across from the average Joe who has spyware all over their Windows machines is beyond funny. Would these poor sods know anything about zomby bots taking over their machines and using them as spam relays? or as attack machines? Many of them not a clue...
You may think it's running NASA, but would you let a guy drive a car without a license? what makes you think these guys would know what damage they are doing over the internet due to Bill Gates only thinking about dominating the world rather than properly securing his operating systems... and then have these untrained people setting up email servers all over the net without knowing the implications of what they are doing...