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zidanefan

zidanefan

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Greetings all, I'm starting a business, nearly have the website design complete, and I'm shopping for a business email provider. I have used Google apps with another business and would like to go another direction.

As far as what I've researched thus far, Rackspace makes you buy five email accounts, and as of now I'm the line wolf, so that's a no-go. There is Microsoft, Amazon, Yahoo's rebranded service, etc... I also see that Namecheap (my registrar) offers a really inexpensive service, so that's tempting.

Anyway, looking for anyone's input who may have experience in this arena, specifically with regard to:

- reliability
- privacy
- security
- features
- SPAM control

Thanks!
 
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zidanefan said:
Greetings all, I'm starting a business, nearly have the website design complete, and I'm shopping for a business email provider. I have used Google apps with another business and would like to go another direction.

As far as what I've researched thus far, Rackspace makes you buy five email accounts, and as of now I'm the line wolf, so that's a no-go. There is Microsoft, Amazon, Yahoo's rebranded service, etc... I also see that Namecheap (my registrar) offers a really inexpensive service, so that's tempting.

Anyway, looking for anyone's input who may have experience in this arena, specifically with regard to:

- reliability
- privacy
- security
- features
- SPAM control

Thanks!
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Rackspace is amazing and my businesses use it.
 
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GAVol said:
Yahoo sucks. Ended up switching to Monster.
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Monster offers hosted email? Do/did you like it?

Outofmyvolcanmind said:
Rackspace is amazing and my businesses use it.
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The features looked fantastic, and the price is great, too. The kicker is the five email minimum for the webmail. I just don't need anything beyond one personal, maybe two for a general inquiries box, at least for now.

How many employees do you have, and are you using the webmail or server application?
 
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The company that host my website provides me with several email accounts. They come with the "company name.com" extension too.
 
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I have my own domain, and currently use the Office 365 Exchange for it. I also help service many of our clients who have switched or started using it as well. It's the most reliable service that integrates directly with Outlook that's out there. It's got pretty good SPAM control, good overall security, and great features as well. I love the fact you can setup as many aliases you want for free, as long as you have at least one mailbox ($5/month). I simply bought my domain through GoDaddy, and used the setup process to point all my mail to Microsoft. Also, you can customize your MX servers to point wherever you want.
 
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g8terh8ter_eric said:
I have my own domain, and currently use the Office 365 Exchange for it. I also help service many of our clients who have switched or started using it as well. It's the most reliable service that integrates directly with Outlook that's out there. It's got pretty good SPAM control, good overall security, and great features as well. I love the fact you can setup as many aliases you want for free, as long as you have at least one mailbox ($5/month). I simply bought my domain through GoDaddy, and used the setup process to point all my mail to Microsoft. Also, you can customize your MX servers to point wherever you want.
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Interesting, thanks. I was trying to sift through the various information and kept seeing a variety of prices for Office 365 and was never sure what I was looking at. So, if you can do a single mailbox for $5/month that is pretty good.
 
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zidanefan said:
Monster offers hosted email? Do/did you like it?



The features looked fantastic, and the price is great, too. The kicker is the five email minimum for the webmail. I just don't need anything beyond one personal, maybe two for a general inquiries box, at least for now.

How many employees do you have, and are you using the webmail or server application?
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150+ and webmail only.
 
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Who's doing your hosting? I've been super pleased with dreamhost over the last 7 years or so. They do email as well for you, but I actually like google apps.
 
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zidanefan said:
Thanks. Any experience with Open X-Change? Doing a little digging has brought up some unfavorable results, both the platform as well as Namecheap's email (passwords). The price is great - $10/yr vs $60/yr for Microsoft. Perhaps it's an example of "get what you pay for." Or perhaps I'm overthinking it.
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You do get what you pay for. Microsoft is by far the standard, with Google Apps coming in second. I wouldn't trust anything else to my business clients, ever. I can't tell you how many of my business clients we have moved from simple ISP email to O365, and they have been downright giddy with the fact of how well the desktop clients, web clients, and mobile clients all sync. The only drawback to O365 Exchange is when you create public calendars, they are only accessible on the desktop clients (Outlook). Outside of that, my work uses Google Apps, so I'm very familiar with it, and wish my boss would move us completely to O365 in the future.
 
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zidanefan said:
Greetings all, I'm starting a business, nearly have the website design complete, and I'm shopping for a business email provider. I have used Google apps with another business and would like to go another direction.

As far as what I've researched thus far, Rackspace makes you buy five email accounts, and as of now I'm the line wolf, so that's a no-go. There is Microsoft, Amazon, Yahoo's rebranded service, etc... I also see that Namecheap (my registrar) offers a really inexpensive service, so that's tempting.

Anyway, looking for anyone's input who may have experience in this arena, specifically with regard to:

- reliability
- privacy
- security
- features
- SPAM control

Thanks!
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Not what you asked for, but...

What CMS is your site on? What kind of business is it, meaning is it lead generation or ecommerce? I have tons of experience marketing websites. I can give you a quick audit of your site (a favor for a fellow Vol fan) after it's done being built, if you'd like. Most of my experience is in SEO (making websites friendly to search engines) and then Google pay-per-click advertising.
 
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crazyguy said:
Who's doing your hosting? I've been super pleased with dreamhost over the last 7 years or so. They do email as well for you, but I actually like google apps.
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I registered the domain through Namecheap, but I'm building a Squarespace site, so it will be hosted through them.

n_huffhines said:
Not what you asked for, but...

What CMS is your site on? What kind of business is it, meaning is it lead generation or ecommerce? I have tons of experience marketing websites. I can give you a quick audit of your site (a favor for a fellow Vol fan) after it's done being built, if you'd like. Most of my experience is in SEO (making websites friendly to search engines) and then Google pay-per-click advertising.
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That's much appreciated. This is going to be a portfolio site for photography, and probably video down the line. As mentioned above, I'm building it on Squarespace after some research and deliberation. In the past, I had a Wordpress site hosted with Bluehost, which was standard and good - cPanel, etc... But, because they have such strong templates and ease of use for the heavily aesthetic nature, it was an easy choice. I'll have a contact form, but it won't be true landing page/lead gen/capture in nature.

Having said all that, I greatly appreciate the offer. I worked in lead gen (PPC, CPC, CPL, etc...) for a marketing firm back from 2008-2012, but I'm well out of the SEO game in terms of algorithms and whatnot. So, even though it's not exactly what you mentioned, I'd be curious to get your thoughts on it once complete if you're game.

Thanks fellers!
 
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Typically that's a pretty tough industry for ranking. Are you going for local customers? Where do you live? That will determine what the competition will be like. Do you have a studio or a business location?
 
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zidanefan said:
I registered the domain through Namecheap, but I'm building a Squarespace site, so it will be hosted through them.



That's much appreciated. This is going to be a portfolio site for photography, and probably video down the line. As mentioned above, I'm building it on Squarespace after some research and deliberation. In the past, I had a Wordpress site hosted with Bluehost, which was standard and good - cPanel, etc... But, because they have such strong templates and ease of use for the heavily aesthetic nature, it was an easy choice. I'll have a contact form, but it won't be true landing page/lead gen/capture in nature.

Having said all that, I greatly appreciate the offer. I worked in lead gen (PPC, CPC, CPL, etc...) for a marketing firm back from 2008-2012, but I'm well out of the SEO game in terms of algorithms and whatnot. So, even though it's not exactly what you mentioned, I'd be curious to get your thoughts on it once complete if you're game.

Thanks fellers!
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I've been a photographer for 10 years. Feel free to email me. Ben (at) Kallimaphotography (dot) com
 
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