Is it just me, or does TUCOWS pricing seem a little high for email services? If I take the cost of a POP account and add the "Email Defense Service" I'm at $0.85/user/month.
If I look at a "retailer" such as Hostway, I can get up to 100 pop accounts (with anti-virus/anti-spam) in their platinum plan for $30/month or $0.30/user/month. Even if you consider the Hostway offerings make you jump from 30 to 100 mail boxes, the break-even point is at 35 mail boxes. And that doesn't consider the other things the plan provides (email forwarding, mailing lists, DNS, web hosting) that are unavailable through TUCOWS or cost extra. Then there's the $7 registration compared to my $10 "wholesale" rate. We didn't become a reseller to try to compete against folks like Hostway. But having to charge more than twice the going rate to break even is a hard sell. With so many reselling openSRS services, I must be missing something...
