Domain Name / Hosting

[Michael Butash]

For me, GD has the most compelling mail offering at the cost.  Part of 
that is my account is still oddly screwed up from my employee account 
days that no one there has figured out how to remove a bunch of free 
services, including mail forwarders from my account in 10 years since I 
quit the first time.  Now they do unlimited storage on mail boxes, which 
is nice.

Plus it's not google.  Nothing against google, I host my business stuff 
there for convenience, but I like the notion of NOT having my personal 
and business stuff in the same place.

Same with dns hosting I find - anything else costs way more than I'm 
paying now across domains @GD.  Having quit working there twice (not so 
nicely), and having a general distaste for them these days as a whole, 
I'd rather not host anything there, but the cheap bastard in me won't 
let me escape yet.

-mb


On 03/23/2016 07:11 AM, Keith Smith wrote:
>
> Around 2006 I saw a picture of iPower's data center in LA and they had 
> lots of consumer grade boxes on shelves that they were selling as 
> stand alone hardware servers.  I could write a book about what I saw 
> and experienced at both GoDaddy and iPower, both tech and HR.
>
> The thing that is missing with all these VPS offerings is mail 
> servers.  We need inexpensive mailboxes.  I do not want to run a mail 
> server and have not found an affordable vendor (that also offers 
> decent VPS). I have several websites and would like to put them up on 
> a VPS (with ssd), let them do the DNS, which DigitalOcean does and 
> have the ability to buy mail boxes at $2/ea.  Rack space want you to 
> buy at least 5 boxes per domain. That adds $10/mo for each domain.  I 
> only need one or two email boxes for each domain.
>