Looking for opinions on email providers

[Rusty Carruth]

On 1/28/24 22:14, Steven via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> Apparently I am late to hearing this, but in the near future Cox will 
> have Yahoo take over handling all "cox.net" email accounts. I've 
> occasionally in the past looked at email providers but never felt much 
> need to move. But as long as this is going to be happening anyway I 
> figure it's time to look again. Does anyone have a preferred email 
> provider? I made use of Cox formerly offering up to six email accounts 
> on a single residential plan to set up an account for my sister, this 
> account, and a couple others. Are there reasonably trustworthy 
> providers that don't scan all your emails in order to push ads on you 
> and that don't don't cost an arm and a leg?
>

Ok, here's my situation.  I have my own domain(s), descomp.com being one 
of them.  For a VERY long time I ran my email from my domain on my home 
computer - on DIALUP! On a dynamic-ip line!  It worked great.


However, progress overtook me, and I finally ended up getting a VPS, 
(also I'm planning on a web site or two, so that figures in a bit too). 
I ran my email from my virtual machine for MANY years.


Progress happens again, and I suddenly (like, last week?) could no 
longer SEND emails because I wasn't either DKIM or whatever the other 
thing is.  I'd had the problem with blacklisted addresses before, and 
had even changed my VPS service due to that.


Well, long story short, once I decided to quit fighting the system and 
decided to PAY for a stupid eMail provider, I spent a lot of time 
researching.  Here's my table:


Who 	monthly/mbox 	yearly/mbox 	storage/box 	Out-the-door 	
Dreamhost 	$1.99 	$1.67 	25G 	$8.35 	
A2Hosting 	$1.59 	
	10G 	$7.95 	

	$2.59 	
	30G 	$12.95 	Other differences between the 2 plans.
Zoho 	
	$1.00 	5G 	$5.00 	

	
	$1.25 	10G 	$6.25 	

	
	$0.00 	5G 	$0.00 	single domain, max 5 users.

	
	
	
	
	
Namebright 	Out, due to non-responsive support and problems with their 
‘features’ 	
	
	
	
scalahosting 	
	$0.50 	5G 	$4.95 	50G shared, max 10 users, 1 domain. Price is $4.95 
per PLAN, not per USER

	
	$0.12 	2G 	$5.95 	100G shared, max 50 users, 5 domains. Price is 
$3.95/mo for 3 years.
hostinger 	$1.59 	
	10G 	$7.95 	Where my web host is running.

	
	
	
	
	


My Domains are registered with Namebright, and I *REALLY* liked the * 
user feature in their email system, but I couldn't get it to work and 
they didn't answer my requests for help.

So I ended up with scalahosting.  I pay like $5/month for up to 50 
users, 5 domains, and 100G shared storage.  They also guarantee that 
your email won't be blocked due to spammers using their servers.  I had 
a little issue getting the (non DKIM-thing) set up, but it wasn't much 
of an issue, just getting my DNS provider to accept the right TXT 
record.  So this email is coming to you from descomp.com hosted at 
scalahosting, I've had it for more than a week, and so far so good :-)  
(and I'm not paying $3.95/mo, I bought the 3 year plan up front...)


I've also got a free Zoho (I think) account I'm playing with too, but 
I've spent  no real time on it.

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