Travel Technology - Looking for a new mail host

Hi,

I know this isn't strictly "travel" technology, but someone might be able to help me...

I seem to be getting shafted left, right and centre by my mail host. I'm running a small business, but need 24x7 up time on my mail server. (I'm now trying to resolve the 3rd outage since Thursday)

Can anyone recommend a service to me? - preferably someone actually owns a hosting company or works for one.

Thanks

Tony

Tony:

I've been hosting my company on Pair Networks servers since 1998. I've yet to have any problems with them. I think they've been down for 20 seconds during the past six years.

www.pair.com. If you do sign up, use "geekfactory" as the login of the friend who referred you. I don't even remember if I get anything, but they ask.

Regardless, I love them. And they're surprisingly cheap. Only possible downside: They have limited telephone support. But their email-response is fantastic.

Good luck!

-Peter

Tony,

I don't work for an email host at this time, but I have worked in messaging departments before.

I would recommend www.fastmail.fm

Check out the features and the costs. You are given access to an IMAP server for free, and POP3/SMTP for a fee. The web based options are always improving and you are allowed to use many advanced IMAP features such as directly addressing to subfolders.

I have never lost an email with Fastmail. If you read their FAQ list you will see how secure and impressive their infrastructure is.

Hope this helps,

Robert

I can second the Pair recommendation, especially since I know the guy who founded the place. Their facility and platforms are second to none.

Can anyone recommend a service to me? - preferably someone actually owns a hosting company or works for one.


I did extensive research on this because I got burned by a horrible company that is now about of business.

For mail-only, the best I've found is www.godaddy.com. For $10 you get one mailbox with 10MB I think. For $20 it's 5 mailboxes for 50MB. And $30 is 50 mailboxes and more storage. The BEST part is that your mailboxes do not have to be the same domain! I have two domains, and signed up for two mail accounts, but was able to get one refunded when I found this out. You also get 100 free transfers per domain. The up time exceeds 99.9%. The only drawback is that you are limited to 50 outgoing emails per mailbox per day. However, with 50 email accounts, that's 2500 per day. Nothing I know comes even close to this for mail-hosting only.

If you need more mailboxes, outgoing emails, or web hosting, we've have good success with www.lunarpages.com. For $100 a year you get 800MB for hosting/email, and unlimited emails accounts and forwards. But you only get this for one domain.

Thanks all for your input. My current host is now on their final warning as it were, so any more SNAFU's and i'll be jumping ship.

Thanks again

Tony

Check Yahoo Small Business as well. I have been using it about 6 months and have not been aware of any problems.

Thanks to geekfactory and ClueByFour for the pair.com recommendation - I have been contemplating switching from my old provider, and after checking them out I'e signed up (geekfactory - I listed you as the referring party).

They are currently running a special where they waive the setup fee for migrating domains, and they also provide discounts for quarterly or yearly billing (my old provider only discounted on yearly billing). And best, I called to ask a question about domain names and spoke to a courteous person who was NOT an automoton speaking from scripts - refreshing! :)