I know this place isn't supposed to be an advertising forum or anything, but I have a serious question, so I thought I'd ask it.
The monopoly telecom in the country I work is my only available ISP. I have my own internal exchange server, and I need register my domain and have someone else host my DNS (dial-up only here). The telecom here wants US$5/mailbox/month to host mailboxes for my clients, so that my exchange server can just dial in and download all messages at scheduled times and I can deal with the mail myself, while maintaining complete control over my internal exchange system (ie internal messaging, calendar, resource reservation, etc...). Looking around the web it seems most places that offer off-site mail either offer some kind of POP3/domain alias thing where they'll host mail for you at you@yourdomainalias.*** or they want to offer full, off site exchange services. I found one british company that will do pretty much what I want for much less than the above price, but they also offer lots of other stuff and want some control over how I do things. Plus they're literally on the other side of the world (12 time zones away), probably not conducive to excellent transfer speeds (I know I know, network distance and map distance don't always correlate, but still...). Does anyone have a couple of places I might go that will offer me just simple mail hosting and let me keep full control of my own exchange server?
Thanks!
Matt
The monopoly telecom in the country I work is my only available ISP. I have my own internal exchange server, and I need register my domain and have someone else host my DNS (dial-up only here). The telecom here wants US$5/mailbox/month to host mailboxes for my clients, so that my exchange server can just dial in and download all messages at scheduled times and I can deal with the mail myself, while maintaining complete control over my internal exchange system (ie internal messaging, calendar, resource reservation, etc...). Looking around the web it seems most places that offer off-site mail either offer some kind of POP3/domain alias thing where they'll host mail for you at you@yourdomainalias.*** or they want to offer full, off site exchange services. I found one british company that will do pretty much what I want for much less than the above price, but they also offer lots of other stuff and want some control over how I do things. Plus they're literally on the other side of the world (12 time zones away), probably not conducive to excellent transfer speeds (I know I know, network distance and map distance don't always correlate, but still...). Does anyone have a couple of places I might go that will offer me just simple mail hosting and let me keep full control of my own exchange server?
Thanks!
Matt