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| Posted by twainj, 03-06-2013, 05:53 PM |
| Hi all, I'm not quite sure I'm in the right forum, as this isn't Web Hosting directly, but I am looking for an Email host.
I have a handful of very small Web clients that I am reselling sites for, and a few more in the works.
Until now, I have run these sites through a shared hosting reseller program, but I am weighing my options for using VPS (I manage these sites, so there is no customer facing concern there).
I'm comfortable managing the web side of things, but would rather put the email in more reliable hands.
I've heard mixed opinions on ResellerClub - they seem to do well with domains, some concern with web, can't find much on email. I've also been looking at Rackspace Email. It sounds pretty solid, but I would love to hear some WHT opinions.
Does anyone have experience with these two? My ear is open to alternatives, as well.
Thanks, all!
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| Posted by GigaPros - Tapas, 03-07-2013, 01:54 AM |
| If you are using Cpanel, then email management is already integrated into it. For small businesses, it have enough bell & whistles as far as email management is concerned.
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| Posted by DWS2006, 03-07-2013, 09:11 AM |
| What is your budget per email account?
Google Aps, Office 365, and Rackspace email are solid options if a $$ per account option is preferred.
I have used ResellerClub email hosting services before, service is solid but somewhat basic. However, if your clients have been using cPanel based email this should work fine.
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| Posted by NodePing, 03-08-2013, 06:23 PM |
| We've been very happy with Sendgrid.
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| Posted by newhostingCo, 03-09-2013, 10:57 AM |
| i use sendgrid use them
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| Posted by BestServerSupport, 03-09-2013, 11:40 AM |
| Think about most reliable email hosting of Google Apps.
http://www.google.com/enterprise/app.../products.html
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| Posted by Host4Geeks-Kushal, 03-09-2013, 03:59 PM |
| Another Happy Sendgrid user here! Cant go wrong with them.
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| Posted by twainj, 03-19-2013, 06:18 PM |
| Thanks for the suggestions! It helps to hear what others find works.
I'm a little surprised about SendGrid, though. I had thought that they were mainly for bulk email - for marketing and such. It sounds like they are a reasonable option for day-to-day-email hosting, as well then?
Thanks everybody!
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| Posted by souhil, 03-19-2013, 06:19 PM |
| SmarterMail hosting is good option too
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| Posted by Trip, 03-20-2013, 12:27 AM |
| twainj, you're inclination about SendGrid was correct; they don't do regular hosting or reselling of email hosting. They're a sending service.
First, a note on using a reseller webhost for email: be wary with most cPanel hosts, as many of them don't segregate their web, mail, db services to clustered or redundant server setups. That means all services are usually running on the same box, and if one service goes down and takes your shared environment with it, your mail goes down as well. And with the rate at which I notice many cPanel hosts having to reboot, troubleshoot, etc. their shared servers all the time, I would stay away from such single points of failure. Instead, I'd choose a clustered/HA or cloud shared reseller. My host FluidHosting is one of them (Cartika is another one). Email uptime has been great, and they do offer reseller accounts so you could do both web and mail reselling with them, just a thought.
As you inferred, though, email may do best at a specialist. And if you like the web side of things enough to keep those services with your current reseller webhost, by all means you can do that even if you move email elsewhere. Check out OpenSRS, FuseMail or Rackspace for regular email or Rackspace, Sherweb and I'm sure more for Exchange.
Hopefully some of those ideas are useful for you!
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