Rackspace email & DNS

[Joseph Sinclair]

Google Apps free edition started with 100, dropped to 50 pretty quick, and last month they dropped to 10 for the free edition.

The corporate "Business" edition has always been unlimited users at $50/year/user.

The paid version has 25G of storage per account which is available across all Google apps.

Many companies (even very large ones) find it useful to pay for Google Apps for the following reasons:
1) It costs a typical large company more than $50/year just for email due to a combination of server licenses, client licenses, and (mostly) staff time to maintain the system.
2) Google Apps allows the corporate IT to control use of Google Docs, calendar, photo sharing, etc...  Most IT groups have discovered their employees will use it anyway, and if they don't control it then people will do things like accidentally share their spreadsheet with corporate sales figures with the whole world.  If the company has a Google Apps account they can default to sharing *within the organization* instead of the whole world.
3) Having email, calendar, and shared documents on Google Apps reduces the need for corporate staff to handle backups and disaster recovery.  A simple onsite backup for audit also serves as an "offsite" backup for D/R because the main systems are somewhere else.
4) The Premium version ($75/user/year) adds powerful corporate audit compliance features that typically cost far more than $25/user/year if hosted in-house.
5) Google Apps has clients for major smartphone systems (esp. Android, naturally), so employees can use their phones to get email, calendar, and view documents (even light editing/collaboration) on whatever smartphone/tablet system they might have.

It's not for everyone (with the reduced number of "free" accounts, there are a lot of small businesses for whom it doesn't make sense), but it's surprising to me how many companies would (and often do) find it to be a strong value.

That said, if you really just want pure email that's as low-cost as you can get (while still being fairly reliable), Rackspace is pretty reasonable (although it doesn't work with as many "desktop" client systems, and doesn't have any phone-based clients I know of).

Hopefully that helps.

On 06/17/2011 07:54 PM, keith smith wrote:
> 
> I've heard that rumor elsewhere.� I was told $50/yr for all the email accounts per domain and they were 8gig mail boxes.
> 
> I have not found those.� I find a free Google apps with 10 accounts or the $5/mo or $50/yr� per account Google apps email accounts.� I don't need Google apps.� I just need email.
> 
> http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/group/index.html
> 
> If you know of a better plan I, sure would like hearing about it.
> 
> Thanks!
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> Keith Smith
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> --- On Fri, 6/17/11, Bryan O'Neal <Bryan.ONeal at TheONealAndAssociates.com> wrote:
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> From: Bryan O'Neal <Bryan.ONeal at TheONealAndAssociates.com>
> Subject: Re: Rackspace email & DNS
> To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
> Date: Friday, June 17, 2011, 7:43 PM
> 
> Odd. I get 100 mail boxes for free from google. I know they dropped it
> but I thought the drop was to 50.
> 
> On 6/17/11, keith smith <klsmith2020 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> I think it is cheaper to spend $100 a month to let someone else run the
>> email server than for me to take on all those headaches.� I started down
>> that path and found it was going to take a lot of on going effort.�� I's not
>> the cost of the server, it is the cost of time.
>>
>> ------------------------
>>
>> Keith Smith
>>
>> --- On Fri, 6/17/11, Dan Lund <situationalawareness at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> From: Dan Lund <situationalawareness at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: Rackspace email & DNS
>> To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
>> Date: Friday, June 17, 2011, 5:36 PM
>>
>> You get to that amount, and it's on the border of creating your own mail
>> server.
>> It's not terribly hard, it just takes security planning.
>>
>> --Dan Lund
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 9:35 AM, keith smith <klsmith2020 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>
>> I looked at google and they are $5/mo or $50/yr per box.� I need about 50
>> mailboxes.� That turns out to be $1,800 more a year.� Rackspace has 10g
>> mailboxes and Google has 25g mailboxes.� I'm guessing all else is equal.� We
>> just need plain old mail.� Nothing fancy.
>>
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> ------------------------
>>
>> Keith Smith
>>
>> --- On Thu, 6/16/11, Bryan O'Neal <Bryan.ONeal at TheONealAndAssociates.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> From: Bryan O'Neal <Bryan.ONeal at TheONealAndAssociates.com>
>> Subject: Re: Rackspace email & DNS
>> To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
>>
>> Date: Thursday, June 16, 2011, 9:24 PM
>>
>> No direct experience but I am have only heard good things about
>> rackspace. That said I let google do my email.
>>
>> On 6/16/11, keith smith <klsmith2020 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Anyone have experience with Rackspace email and their DNS hosting service
>>> ?
>>> They have 10gig mailboxes for $2/mo each.� And DNS can be added for
>>>
>> � $5.00/yr.
>>>
>>> I'm testing their service now.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>
>>> ------------------------
>>>
>>> Keith Smith
>>
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