Consumer grade e-mail hosting options?

Tue, 21 Aug 2001 00:06:20 -0700

My previous employer is charging $200 and you get a 450-MHZ Server 
w/32 MB RAM - 8 GB UDMA66 Disk Space - 50 kbps Data Transfer included
(allows approx. 16 GB/month).  To put this into perspective, my site
is the 5th busiest on that particular server, and I'm pulling 550MB
per month.  If I got rid of my LRP site, I could shave that by 20%.
As far as I know, he does not use a traffic shaper to limit the 
bandwidth, but he will upgrade you to the next plan, which is 
$450/month.

This guy is competing with RackSpace, so the intro prices are lower.

Might want to check with Mike (mike@flsuncoast.com) - maybe he 
colocates servers.

George

Bob Cober wrote:
> 
> 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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