What's your favorite email host? (was: SOHO Email Hosting or Alternatives)

brk gnhlug at karas.net
Mon Apr 23 17:55:00 EDT 2007


On Apr 23, 2007, at 5:14 PM, Ben Scott wrote:

>
>  Well-defined target market, practically begging to pay reasonable
> fees, in search of service providers, on a clear channel.  This should
> be a salesperson's wet dream.


It would seem that way, but in truth I think not so much...

I could easily throw a server up in my colo and give everyone their  
own virt boxes for like $10-$20/mo, but the headaches aren't really  
worth it.

I already offer 1U colo for $50/mo (there's my shameless plug).   
Anything cheaper than that, and the type of customer element you  
attract can tend to be far more trouble than they're worth.  You'll  
get folks that represent probably 1% of the overall server hosting  
market that want to do all sorts of muckety-muck with their virtual  
machine, and they end up causing you a lot of headaches for their  
$100-$150/year.

People don't want to admin the server, but they want all sorts of  
power and flexibility.  If you want to manage many aliases and  
mailboxes and potentially domains, you're already practically an  
admin anyway.  Throw webmin on it, and lock it down a bit, and there  
you have it.

And, I'll bet the 4 people that all want this could probably only  
barely agree on a common MTA and spam filter :)

Basically, what I'm saying is that there is a reason there is not  
much out there like this: you guys aren't worth the trouble you  
create :)


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