Random local MSP vs Established host - I'd not put a bet on that one. For every competent one there are A LOT of not so competent ones.
Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 9:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows 2008 Server and/or Exchange in the cloud www.intermedia.net<http://www.intermedia.net> kind of pricey but stable and easy to manage/setup. Im sure there are others. For that size why not just partner up with an MSP who can put your own server in a datacenter and host it/manage it for a flat fee. You could probably have several of those in your area. From: John Gwinner [mailto:jgwin...@dazsi.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 5:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Windows 2008 Server and/or Exchange in the cloud Has anyone run Exchange in a Cloud? Amazon seemingly doesn't support it, unless it's Exchange 2003, which I'm not willing to stay on (our current ASP is still on 2003). Home > Support Center > Forums > Amazon Web Services > Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Thread: How to Set-up Exchange Server (2003 or 2007) on EC2 ??? http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/thread.jspa?messageID=112740𛡤 Although we can apparently run our own images and so I think we could just create a Server 2008 image. Booting a Server 2008 image with the Amazon cloud may apparently be a little difficult (The boot volume isn't persistent). One person installed 2003 and upgraded to 2008, but you have to do some tricks with the 10G boot partition they give you. Before I spend a lot of time fiddling with it, I thought I'd check to see if anyone else is doing it. Our project goals: 1) No hardware to maintain. 2) Exchange 2007 or vNext 3) Support for mailboxes averaging about 1.3G, with the largest mailbox being 10G 4) 250 users 5) 30 Blackberry users 6) Windows Mobile/iPhone support 7) Integrated Domain with current domain (something our ASP doesn't do of course) 8) Some redundancy / must be stable == John == ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
