I agree with you 100% Malcolm, there's no reason to have the web hosting company be the mail hosting company.
I use yahoo business mail. It's been reliable and easy to manage for years and years now. The Web hosting should be the company that has the best price/performance ratio and that apparently changes rapidly in this business. --- On Sat, 2/21/09, Malcolm Greene <[email protected]> wrote: From: Malcolm Greene <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [NF] Moving web host - how to handle user e-mail? To: [email protected] Date: Saturday, February 21, 2009, 9:03 AM Hi Vince, I never found a solution for moving email accounts across hosts other than downloading each account's emails to a email client (Outlook) and then manually rebuilding accounts at the new host. We finally decided to make a distinction between our web hosting and my email hosting services and tried to choose best of the breed for each use. This way we could change web hosts without affecting our email users and vice-versa. I'm very pleased with this solution. Here's what we're doing: 1. We're using the following web hosting services for our web projects: - lunarpages.com - webfaction.com - slicenet.com 2. We're using Fastmail.fm to host all our email accounts (for multiple domains). I'm a big fan of this service, but there are other quality alternatives including Google's gmail, Yahoo mail and Rackspace's hosted email service. The downside to splitting your web and email hosting is that your email hosting may no longer be 'free', ie. free as part of your bundled web hosting account's menu of services (actually, I believe gmail may even be free when used on a custom domain basis?). But my experience with hosting services is that you get what you pay for with respect to hosted email reliability. Finally, for us (and our customers), reliable email is even more important than a reliable web site. This is another reason why you might consider splitting your web and email hosting. Good luck! Malcolm [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
