Consumer grade e-mail hosting options?

[George Toft]

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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