Rackspace email & DNS

[Lisa Kachold]

Thanks for educating us about great hosting features (as always)!

On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 10:39 AM, keith smith <klsmith2020 at yahoo.com> wrote:

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> If I were to slice off $100 of my time I do not think I could maintain a
> mail server within that time frame.  And since I'm a one man band, it is one
> less thing for me to worry about.
>
> Thank you for working through this with me.
>
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> Keith Smith
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> --- On *Sat, 6/18/11, Lisa Kachold <lisakachold at obnosis.com>* wrote:
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> From: Lisa Kachold <lisakachold at obnosis.com>
> Subject: Re: Rackspace email & DNS
> To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
> Date: Saturday, June 18, 2011, 9:27 AM
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> Yes, that looks like a good deal at Rackspace.
>
> Google Aps just changed their service levels.
>
> There is also a mail relay option at something like dyndns.org.  They have
> a few other options.
>
> I think Rackspace has excellent reputation anyway and that IS CHEAP!
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> On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 8:29 AM, keith smith <klsmith2020 at yahoo.com<http://mc/compose?to=klsmith2020@yahoo.com>
> > wrote:
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> I agree.  I enjoyed installing and configuring Qmail Toaster.  However I
> have lots of other things that demand my time.  It's not feasible for me to
> run a mail server - would be a lot of fun though.  There are other
> considerations as well.
>
> The free Google Apps mail is limited to 10 email accounts.  I need 20 for
> one group and 30 for another.  That pushes me into the $5/mo or $50/yr.
> Rackspace offers commerial grade emial at $2/mo with 10Gig mailboxes.
>
> If I am wrong about the Google free email please let me know.
>
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> Keith Smith
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> --- On *Sat, 6/18/11, Lisa Kachold <lisakachold at obnosis.com<http://mc/compose?to=lisakachold@obnosis.com>
> >* wrote:
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> From: Lisa Kachold <lisakachold at obnosis.com<http://mc/compose?to=lisakachold@obnosis.com>
> >
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> Subject: Re: Rackspace email & DNS
> To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us<http://mc/compose?to=plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
> >
> Date: Saturday, June 18, 2011, 8:05 AM
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> It's really fun to run a mail server!
>
> With a correctly configured postfix, exim or sendmail it's very fun.
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> Of course, I learned in 1995 in dot com startups where we were selling
> dialup maintaining multiple mail servers.
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> The people I worked with were all really creative and easy going.
>
> Of course I prefer for security sake to use gmail relay now at home.
>
> Another alternative is Google Aps for domains mail (free).
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> On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 6:51 PM, keith smith <klsmith2020 at yahoo.com<http://mc/compose?to=klsmith2020@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.
>
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> Keith Smith
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> --- On *Fri, 6/17/11, Dan Lund <situationalawareness at gmail.com<http://mc/compose?to=situationalawareness@gmail.com>
> >* wrote:
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> From: Dan Lund <situationalawareness at gmail.com<http://mc/compose?to=situationalawareness@gmail.com>
> >
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> Subject: Re: Rackspace email & DNS
> To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us<http://mc/compose?to=plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
> >
> Date: Friday, June 17, 2011, 5:36 PM
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>
> 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
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> On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 9:35 AM, keith smith <klsmith2020 at yahoo.com<http://mc/compose?to=klsmith2020@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!
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> Keith Smith
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> --- On *Thu, 6/16/11, 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<http://mc/compose?to=plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
> >
> Date: Thursday, June 16, 2011, 9:24 PM
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>
> No direct experience but I am have only heard good things about
> rackspace. That said I let google do my email.
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> On 6/16/11, keith smith <klsmith2020 at yahoo.com<http://mc/compose?to=klsmith2020@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.
> >
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> >
> > Keith Smith
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