Quoting Ed MacDonald ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > 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.
The original email pricing was a bit out of line but now Tucows is close to what I and what other dedicated email providers need to charge resellers. > > 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. Offering POP accounts managed with C-Panel, or one of the other web hosting control panels, is quite a bit different from the management interface for a purpose built email system. Especially in the spam rejection/scoring area and the ability for your customers to manage their own email accounts. > > 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... The Hostway $30/month is for a shared web hosting account with email tossed in. IMAP/SMTP/TLS/SSL? Redundant raid based mail stores? Redundant MX/IMAP/POP/SMTP servers? Can it handle a million+ bounces daily to addresses forged in a Ralsky spam run? Multiple domains per account? I don't know where you can get those kinds of features for $0.30/mailbox. John Capo Tuffmail.com
