Consumer grade e-mail hosting options?

[Bob Cober]

How much for a dedicated server?  I am interested in getting a dedicated
server at a host that has excellent connectivity.  Id like to put apache,
tomcat, jboss, qmail,etc. on it and have the box dedicated to me.  Possibly
even run some counter-strike server on it periodically.  I would
administrate it myself through ssh.

I was under the impression that this was upwards of $300+ month at places
like rackspace.com.  Has anybody seen something similar for less?  Is it
alot less if I provide the hardware?

Also, any idea how much cox@work pro costs?

Thanks for any info
Bob


----- Original Message -----
From: George Toft <george@georgetoft.com>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 9:29 PM
Subject: Re: Consumer grade e-mail hosting options?


> Dedicated web/mail hosting is available for $10/month more or less.
> Check out: http://www.flsuncoast.com - $8/month, and will be moving
> my site to his servers.  My current provider (WorldMarket.com) charges
> $30 or so (I get it free, as I set up the servers and network), and his
> resellers sell for $15-20 per month (http://best1hosting.net).
>
> These are 100 mbps LANS connected to Fibre.  Check out some traceroutes
> and ping times to them.
>
> --- georgetoft.com ping statistics ---
> 100 packets transmitted, 95 packets received, 5% packet loss
> round-trip min/avg/max = 44.0/156.8/4568.7 ms
>
> --- flsuncoast.com ping statistics ---
> 100 packets transmitted, 100 packets received, 0% packet loss
> round-trip min/avg/max = 51.9/87.8/412.0 ms
>
> As you can see, Mike's speeds are better than my previous employer and
> the quality is much better.
>
> George
>
>
> Bob Cober wrote:
> >
> > Just an idea - you could upgrade to cox@work.  I don't think they are
doing
> > any filtering on cox@work.  I saw a promotion on their site for
$75/month -
> > not exactly cheap, but any dedicated host will cost you more than
that....
> >
> > I am pondering upgrading myself because of the filtering....
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Bob George <bobstro@home.com>
> > To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
> > Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2001 9:37 PM
> > Subject: Consumer grade e-mail hosting options?
> >
> > > Well, @Home has finally pulled the plug, and my little guerilla SMTP
> > server
> > > is no longer reachable from the world at large. It's something I've
> > expected
> > > for years, but I'm disappointed. Anyhow, I'm now trying to find viable
> > > alternatives for e-mail for my family, while still allowing myself to
keep
> > > spam under control.
> > >
> > > I want to be able to set up various aliases (i.e.
> > newsaccount@mydomain.com,
> > > disposableaccount@mydomain.com, plug@mydomian.com) for different
lists, as
> > > well as for each family member. I had this working perfectly with
> > fetchmail,
> > > procmail and postfix to sort and file mail for access via IMAP, but
now it
> > > seems I need to do something similar elsewhere.
> > >
> > > What I think I'm looking for is a very inexpensive pop3 account
hosting.
> > I'd
> > > like to register mydomain.com, and be able to manage a number of
accounts
> > > under that domain. Probably 10-20 maximum, but it is nice to have
> > > flexibility. Hopefully it won't be a pay-per-account as I really don't
> > know
> > > what accounts I'll want yet. I would then be able to poll these via
> > > fetchmail from my Linux mail server and still do all my sorting and
> > > filtering there.
> > >
> > > Many web hosting services seem to provide a handful of accounts, but
I'm
> > > hoping for something more flexible, if not mail-centric.
> > >
> > > Any tips or ideas appreciated. It's not a panic situation yet, but I
hate
> > to
> > > go back to having only one account again.
> > >
> > > - Bob
> > >
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