Admin Posted September 1, 2008 Report Share Posted September 1, 2008 Any of you guys have any experience with any good, reliable and affordable companies offering exchange hosting? Preferable in the EU! I'm sitting here wondering if I should go through with all the trouble (and cost) of setting up my own exchange server or just outsource this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phriznik Posted September 1, 2008 Report Share Posted September 1, 2008 I decided to outsource with Sherweb about a month ago. No problems as of yet. I believe they are US based though. You can try www.webhostingtalk.com for some more ideas/feedback on various hosts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Posted September 1, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 1, 2008 I actually signed up with Sherweb yesterday, but unfortunately their access is extremely slow from EU. Still have a couple of other providers to try, but I wanted to hear if anybody else had any suggestions here first . Thanks anyway Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomhorn Posted September 1, 2008 Report Share Posted September 1, 2008 (edited) I use 1and1 now, and have used Mail2web. Mail2web has a free service you can sign up for to try it first. You don't get your own domain name on the free account. Mail2web was good, but 1and1 was cheaper for the equivalent mailbox sizes which is why I went with them. If you can avoid it, I would not recommend hosting your own Exchange server. They are a pain in the a$$ to administer. Edited September 1, 2008 by tomhorn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phriznik Posted September 2, 2008 Report Share Posted September 2, 2008 I have used 1and1 in the past (just for hosting though - not exchange). I will never use another service from them again if I can help it. Glad to hear you are not having problems with them though. They do have great pricing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Posted September 2, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 2, 2008 I have never used 1and1, but reading the reviews they are getting, I would go nowhere near them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fotoman Posted September 2, 2008 Report Share Posted September 2, 2008 I use 1and1 - have for several years - love them. For hosted exchange, been using them for 2 yrs - been same as my other coverage the company i had previously i used Asp-one.com - they use a great spam service called mxlogic - which is freaking phenomenal - you must use a pre-server spam service if you have lots of users mxlogic requires like 30 accts before you can directly contract with them asp-one was more high end than 1and1 - but at twice the price, so you just have to decide what you need - if its a corp environment and the few bucks isn't a big deal - go with asp-one if its small small stuff, 1and1 works well for me Prior to this, i tried doing my own exchange server which was a freaking nightmare its a full time job to maintain it and fight off virus attacks i've been doing hosted exchange since 2002 - great service Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fidestro Posted September 4, 2008 Report Share Posted September 4, 2008 I am run Exchange and would not recommend the do it yourself route, especially since we upgraded to 2007. It is quite different in the management console than previous versions and until they released SP1 a ton of commands had to be done via command line because they were too lazy to finish the UI. It is quite heavy on the resources it wants as well. It baffled me why I had to buy a 64 bit server for it and then spent months typing crap in a command line. If I wanted to do that I would have left my Linux server in place. I also would avoid 1and1 like the plague however, speaking from experience. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LegendofSpeed Posted September 4, 2008 Report Share Posted September 4, 2008 You know.. I had hosted exchange for my company... and my boss complained about it costing too much... he went on his own and spent $20k for 20 users (equipment, consulting, software, install) and he's bitching about how many viagra ads he gets... so, he's suing the guy... Why do they never listen? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pugwash Posted September 4, 2008 Report Share Posted September 4, 2008 I have never used 1and1, but reading the reviews they are getting, I would go nowhere near them. Very fast and very cheap. Exceedingly good for dedicated servers, but avoid their Exchange offering. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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