Cheap, good email hosting?

[JustMike]

MailSnare.net is about the only thing I can find that seems to have all the options I want. Anything else out there worth considering? I need about 10 mailboxes, unlimited aliases/forwarding and separate account management.

 

[JackMDS]

Get your own Domain $15 a year.

And $3.95 (you can go cheaper or higher) a month service Total $5 a month.

Link to: http://www.3-95.com/

 

[JustMike]

Ugh, don't like the looks of their webpage... not enough detailed information. I also want SSL POP3/SMTP/IMAP support, which they do not seem to offer.

 

[Nothinman]

I'm thinking about getting a linode. It's a bit more expensive but you have 100% full control over the box and can do anything you want, not just email. A couple of guys I know have them and so far they love them.

 

[horhey]

Try GoDaddy
8.95 for a domain name. $20 a year for 5 email accounts not bad. So for a grand total of 30 dollars which is half of the price of

Originally posted by: JackMDS
Get your own Domain $15 a year.

And $3.95 (you can go cheaper or higher) a month service Total $5 a month.

Link to: http://www.3-95.com/

 

[JustMike]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
I'm thinking about getting a linode. It's a bit more expensive but you have 100% full control over the box and can do anything you want, not just email. A couple of guys I know have them and so far they love them.

My only concern is that since I'd want to run an SMTP server, their IP address block better not be on any blacklists...

 

[JustMike]

GoDaddy doesn't have SSL-enabled POP3/IMAP/SMTP

 

[JackMDS]

I doubt that you will not find SSL in an Inexpensive service.

Originally posted by: horhey
Try GoDaddy
8.95 for a domain name. $20 a year for 5 email accounts not bad. So for a grand total of 30 dollars which is half of the price.

You are absolutely right it is not a matter of Right or wrong it is a matter waht the person would like to do. And a correct evaluation of what is offered, and to bother to look at the link that someone put the time into providing you.

For $30 a year on godaddy.com you get 5 email accounts on 50 MB of space and that it.

As a frame of reference I used 8-95.com because I am familiar with their service but there are others with similar services.

For $8.95 twice a year that is 8.95x2=$17 + $15 Domain = $32

You get:

30 Day Money Back Guarantee
DirectAdmin Control Panel
No set limit Subdomains
Lots of Email Addresses
Apache Web Server
Server Side Includes (SSI)
Log Files
Frontpage 2002 Extensions
Personal CGI-BIN
Htaccess
Exim Mail Server
Aliases
Responders & Vacation Message
Mail Forwarding
Spam Filters
Mailing Lists
POP3 + Webmail
SMTP Authorization
ProFTPD FTP Server
Scripting Tools (Perl, Python, PHP4)
Backup and Restore Manager
Usage Reports
Site Statistics
File Manager
File Upload
MySQL Database
Traffic Monitoring
Webalizer statistics

All of this sits on the same 50 MB, thta BigDaddy gives you.

However it is much more flexible than the BigDaddy, since you can use more then 5 email account and can actually host pages and FTP space.

The $60 a year is the same but with 300MB and up to 3 individual domains.

 

[Nothinman]

My only concern is that since I'd want to run an SMTP server, their IP address block better not be on any blacklists...

Atleast one of the people I know with one is using it to host his mail and AFAIK he hasn't had any problems sending/recieving yet.

 

[JustMike]

Nothinman, the price seems VERY reasonable for what you get... this is tempting even though it's more expensive.