Web hosting and email services

[mattpegher]

I have been using Ipower for about a year now with their basic service but about last may my clients stopped getting my emails due to them being tagged as spam. Ipower suggested that I upgrade to their VPS but not being an IT guy I didn't understand that I had to do anything once this was done. Well appearently I needed to. So the vps never got set up and I was using the old basic which they never closed. The vps got hacked and set up for phishing and suspended. All the while I had paid for a year of vps.

So I find this all out when the basic is up for renewal and I cancel that and lose my email. I call up and find out what had happened to the vps. Now they send me instructions but after following them, I still can't get the email going. So I'm screwed.

All I need is a website (which I havent built yet) and email. Basic website re info about my company, contact info, text stuff only. No sales. No forms. Simple. And I absolutely need email with no obvious forwards ie myname@mydomain.com. Its small only a few email accounts.

It seems like this VPS is much more than I need but I can't have my IP tagged as spam. Any suggestions?

 

[RebateMonger]

I suggest getting a business-level email service. You would be safe with a hosted Exchange mailbox from businesses like http://ownwebnow.com or http://intermedia.net . These are around $11 (U.S.) a month per mailbox. OwnWebNow scans all incoming and outgoing mail with their ExchangeDefender, which scans for both viruses and spam. It even does OCR of graphics-based emails to catch .PDF spam.

 

[skyking]

another alternative is google apps. Get a basic hosting plan, and set up a goole apps account for the email. They do a good job with the spam.