|
Written by mschwerin
|
|
Thursday, 08 March 2007 |
"How many people actually host their own email server, and why? Why not use a 3rd party host? There are providers out there that will give you webspace and email hosting along with domain name registration etc, all for 1 very reasonable price, much less then paying someone to maintain the email server.
Just wondering if people have any thoughts on this."
joemaloy:
I dont.
VariableARK:
I host my own for the same reason I build my own buildings and put up my own towers, I enjoy doing it, and I don't trust others to do it right.
slipstream1:
I host my own qmail servers. I enjoy doing it, some days. Just an extra revenue stream.
Keithb:
I manage my own servers for web-hosting and re-selling on the side in a huge datacenter, and I have hosted our coporate e-mail, dns, and e-mail for our Wireless Internet at no charge, thus far.
Rhaas:
I run our own mail server and webserver. Like VariableARK above, I don't trust anyone else to do it.
dallash:
I have 7 mail servers. They are for different purposes, primarily additional revenue streams. For our ISP side of the house, we run a couple of Qmail servers in a redundant blockade. It's housing about 30K accounts.
If I were just starting out, I would use something like Merak or some other free Windows-based server. If you are comfortable with Linux, there are myriad solutions you can "roll your own" with. It's not for the timid, and I wouldn't recommend it (putting an SMTP host on the Internet) until you are comfortable with how it works.
If you are not comfortable doing anything other than building your wireless network, then, by gosh, do THAT well and let someone else do the DNS/Webspace/Email.
You can learn as you go, but it's usually not a good idea to "get your t-shirt" using live customers as guinea pigs. People tend to get very possessive of their email. Heck, to some customers, that ALL the Internet is....
Regards,
Dallas
PersComp:
OK, I'll be the lone wolf on the opposite side of the fence... 
I use yahoo for my webhosting and email. For $12/mo I have everything I need and that price includes 200 emails. More can be bought at any time very reasonably. I have enough stress and headaches to worry about and Yahoo has been trouble free for me for several years. And there has never been an outage that affected me or any of my customers that I am aware of. The accounts can be used in any POP3 mail client and/or web-based. Yahoo does at least scan attachments, too, so there is a little protection for those customers that refuse to keep the AV software up to date as well.
Also every time I set up another website and reference it through mine, I get a $60 commission.
polk5:
If I had the time I guess I would do it myself. I have a friend of mine that does ours. It gives us more time to concentrate on the rooftops and the rest of the wireless part of the business. Its the part of the business that I enjoy. I would rather be at the top of a 300' tower or rooftop any day working rather in a office banging on a keyboard.
Original thread location |
All Categories 
