To some extent, I agree. Hosting your own mail at the end of an ADSL link is not a good idea, however much the speed of access draws you towards that path. I have one customer who does that. Huge drawings back and forth - much faster in a normal working environment. However, when trying to get a linux mail server up and running over a 3G wireless dongle... forget it. All sent mail was binned by most clients due to dynamic IP address classification anyway.
However, running it in any *competent* data centre isn't that bad an option. Only slightly more risky than rackspace/googles data centres... probably. Relatively trivial in comparison anyway! As even Google has proved, having your own backup strategy for your info is an absolute must, so you're not going to lose that requirement no matter which road you take. And, of course, the overriding reason for me to host my own mail is nothing more than... street cred! It'd be a bit of a copout for a company specialising in sys admin services to use google now wouldn't it! Personally, I recommend that my clients use Google Apps. They can spend millions of dollars on antispam techniques where we mortals can afford to spend cents. The ones that don't have volume or security issues that make remote hosting unacceptable. And, of course, GA leaves your choice of (local) email client free, while adding on an extra hosted one. My $0.02, Steve On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 15:47 +1200, Chris Hellyar wrote: > Hurro, > > > > I'd have to echo this, with my own customers, my 'real' job and my > private email. > > > > Folks with email hosted with big cloud providers (google, rackspace > and Microsoft Azure) all had their email. In-house and small ISP's > locally had issues or no email at all after 222. In the weeks after > February I shifted just under a Tb of email into the cloud across > eight companies. It's a no-brainer really, although I do wonder about > commercial businesses hosting their mail with (free) gmail rather than > in google apps, but that's a whole other discussion. > > > > I shifted my own email to rackspace about a year ago, give or take. > > > > Having my own IMAP on a colo when I was hosting and then at home for > years I would not go back to hosting my own email again. It's great > from a geek bragging point of view, but at the end of the day I want > to use email, not fiddle with it. > > > > Cheers, Me. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: "Nick Rout" <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, 27 June, 2011 12:18 > To: "Canterbury Linux Users Group" > <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Linux-users] The best mail client > > FLMAO > > > Actually I have run a mail server (behind a fixed IP adsl connection) > and i have also used googgle apps for my present work domain and have > to say that I was more likely to have connectivity with gmail/google > than with the previous setup. > > Even in the aftermath of the 22/2 earthquake my data connection stayed > up on my phone, and I had email (both my work domain and this gmail > account). > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users -- Steve Holdoway BSc(Hons) MNZCS <[email protected]> http://www.greengecko.co.nz MSN: [email protected] Skype: sholdowa
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