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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