Hosted exchange server suggestions?

[Arzy]

Would appreciate some advice on email hosting if anyone has.

Currently have a domain registered for my families email, less than 10 users. Tired of the current hosting though so I'd like to switch to someone else and while I'm busy try and go from pop3 to an exchange server.

Ideally it would be nice if it was local, no objections to international.

 

[herbertk]

Would appreciate some advice on email hosting if anyone has.

Currently have a domain registered for my families email, less than 10 users. Tired of the current hosting though so I'd like to switch to someone else and while I'm busy try and go from pop3 to an exchange server.

Ideally it would be nice if it was local, no objections to international.

1. AWS (Amazon Web Services) now offer something they are not the cheapest but it is a good offering
2. Google has a business offering that is also quite good not exchange though...

http://www.thewhir.com/web-hosting-...business-email-service-take-cloud-competitors

 

[w1z4rd]

The best hosted exchange I have come across is the one offered by rackspace.com Its not cheap, but worth every penny. Giant inboxes, ultimate spam protection, always available functionality. Comes with a bunch of other useful tools to make hosted exchange easier.

http://www.rackspace.com/email-hosting/hosted-exchange

If you want a high end quality product, thats it. Another important point is Rackspace support is pretty world class. Ive never experienced another company with those levels of support.

 

[Chiller89]

Microsoft Office 365? 50GB mailboxes, $5 per mailbox, per month? Never had a problem with myself or our clients using these.

EDIT: get discounts buying per year too.

 

[morkhans]

If you want something free (not exchange though) there is https://www.zoho.com/mail/

 

[Brad.Rouhana]

Hi Arzy,
Please drop me your email address would be very happy to take this discussion further.
Or see HybridClouds.co.za Locally hosted DC.

Best
Brad

 

[faniebraai]

Microsoft Office 365? 50GB mailboxes, $5 per mailbox, per month? Never had a problem with myself or our clients using these.

EDIT: get discounts buying per year too.

This

 

[Arzy]

Would I be able to transfer the domain if I went with office 365?

 

[Park@82]

Re 365: Can other email aliases be linked to an account/user? e.g. [email protected] and [email protected] linked/forwarded to [email protected] and [email protected] or will we have to pay for each email address?

 

[Overmind]

Office 365 hands down. You can transfer your domain.

[Edit] You can have multiple aliases per account.

 

[Viper25]

Office 365, Exchange is Microsoft, so who better to handle the hosting than Microsoft themselves?

 

[Park@82]

[Edit] You can have multiple aliases per account.

thanks! do you know how many?

 

[gfmalan]

thanks! do you know how many?

12 and counting for one of my accounts

 

[Chiller89]

Re 365: Can other email aliases be linked to an account/user? e.g. [email protected] and [email protected] linked/forwarded to [email protected] and [email protected] or will we have to pay for each email address?

Yeah you can have aliases, as far as I'm aware they're unlimited. You can also have unlimited distribution groups allowing say info@mycompany to go to john@mycompany and Shaun@mycompany or any number of addresses you need.

 

[MyLowBandwidth]

Google apps is such an awesome solution, I sometimes fail to see any reasoning behind not wanting to go the Google Apps option for business email.

Could anyone elaborate on what you get with Office 365 that you won't get with Google Apps?

 

[gfmalan]

Google apps is such an awesome solution, I sometimes fail to see any reasoning behind not wanting to go the Google Apps option for business email.

Could anyone elaborate on what you get with Office 365 that you won't get with Google Apps?

Same s..t diffrent vendor, I make most of my income with MS products, so I'll return the favour.

And I hate how Google spy on you.

 

[MyLowBandwidth]

Same s..t diffrent vendor, I make most of my income with MS products, so I'll return the favour.

And I hate how Google spy on you.

And MS don't?

 

[gfmalan]

And MS don't?

Hope less... When using google.com it update 3-4 other sites in the background with the search details, to customize add on other pages, they didn't ask my permission, so for me Google is worse. I asume Bing does the same...

Google get their money from adds, and MS from software (main income stream) so keep fingers crossed that MS treat me better