Mike, The free version of Google Apps is definitely worth considering. If you're using it for your business and email is at all important to your business then I'd strongly recommend paying the $50/user/year. Sure, I've rarely needed to call support (and, honestly, haven't been that impressed with the support I have gotten - but what do you expect for $50?). However, you have a lot more recourse and your vendor has a lot more accountability if you're actually *paying* for the service. As a business owner, I sleep a lot better at night knowing that if something goes seriously wrong with my Google Apps account I can hold Google accountable and get a resolution to the problem.
Thanks, Bradley On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 12:27 PM, Mike Raley <[email protected]> wrote: > Gary, > > Btw, Google apps does have a free, unsupported version available. I have > been using it for approximately 4 different organizations for about a year > now. I have yet to actually need Google's support for anything, so I have > no qualms about the lack of support for no cost. > > For the person that simply doesn't have the bandwidth/hardware/time to run > and admin their own mail server it's a really good option. My only > complaints are it occasionally takes an extended time to send emails within > the domain you are a part of, and that for the admin, you do not have the > full control as if you were hosting the server yourself (I cannot go in and > find an email someone "claims" to have "lost", or check maillogs) > > But otherwise, I would recommend it, unless you have lots of spare time on > your hands! ;) > > Mike Raley > > > --- On Wed, 12/31/08, Bradley Holt <[email protected]> wrote: > > > From: Bradley Holt <[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: Unique email problem (apparently)] > > To: [email protected] > > Date: Wednesday, December 31, 2008, 10:17 AM > > We've been using Google Apps (Gmail for your domain) > > since the day they > > started offering a paid version and have been quite happy > > with it. > > $50/user/year is very good deal especially for something so > > business > > critical. With four user we only pay $200 year, have > > practically zero > > administrative cost, and have had extremely little > > downtime. Don't forget > > about all the other goodies you get too such as Google Docs > > and Google Sites > > (a not-yet-very-well-known-SharePoint-killer, IMHO). > > We're quite comfortable > > living "in the cloud" (our hosting is "in > > the cloud" as well) despite the > > many naysayers. > > > > Thanks, > > Bradley > > > > On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 8:13 AM, Gary Brown > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Thank you all for the suggestions. It has really made > > me take a look at > > > GMail. I did find some unsettling information @ > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gmail#Criticisms and was > > wondering what > > > experience those of you who use Gmail have had. > > > > > > I'm also looking into Josh's method and found > > > http://www.linux.com/feature/146613 > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > http://bradley-holt.blogspot.com/ > > > > -- http://bradley-holt.blogspot.com/
