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Your opinion regarding mxroute.com
Hello,
This is my first post on LET 
I have been looking for good and decent mail hosting and I recently found the site mxroute.com.
The prices are quite cheap, I was wondering if someone have some kind of experience with them. I generally want to know if I can trust this site (With things like finance and finance related accounts), if there are major down times, is the panel good and how fast are the server.
In addition, I noted that the plans on the category "MXroute Classic" don't have DKIM, isn't it a form of security?
Any information will be appreciated.
Have a nice day 
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Perfection Incarnate, couldn't be happier with them.
DKIM is a dead standard, nobody significant implemented it.
I think you wouldn't really have found out about mxroute that easily if you weren't lurking around before and saw who is running it :P That being said @jarland was an admin of LET until recently, is considered trustworthy and reputable when it comes to knowing his stuff so yeah...not anything bad to say, really.
They're good. For finance related things? Dunno, depends on how much money is involved I guess. If we're talking serious numbers I'd go for a bigger player in the field just for some peace of mind.
MXroute is good though, they saved me a couple of times when Gsuite didn't seem to be able to get things right. I'd trust them with sensitive stuff up to a certain point.
I use both MXRoute.com and MXRoute.io. The only thing missing for me with MXRoute is ActiveSync. I have a VPS running z-push and that seems to work really well with MXRoute so all in all a really good service.
cPanel is used as panel and it just works as expected
Thank you all. I think I will give them a try!
By the way, What is the difference between the packages mxroute class and mxroute?
Looks like MXRoute classic is based on VestaCP while MXRoute is based on cPanel from the site
This, I setup forwarders, mail a while back and forget I have the account unless someone mentions them or it's renewal time.
Proper set it and forget it, run by a legit well known member of the community who was basically running LET for the last few years until a week or two back.
Solid company, I'd choose a cPanel plan, it's what I use.
I had an opinion on mxroute. Even a nice one with pink stripes and little bells attached. Honestly. But @Nekki tentacled and ate it.
It was perfectly fine when I used it, if a little barebones. I'm using Fastmail which is more fully featured (has a nice web client) and also offers multiple domain management for less than $50 / year.
MXRoute not expensive, try it and see if you like it. It's great for personal use, but for business you might want to learn hosting the mail yourself, and not depend on some other business to do it for you.
What do you mean by that? What is a finance and finance related account? Stock market? Something that billions of dollars depend on it? If yes, don't be cheappie and buy a much more expensive account with full redudancy, dedicated ip and a tech guy to maintain it. Or, buy gmail accounts to gain from their infrastructure.
If not, mxroute is one of the best solutions you can find out there and for the fraction of price that some more expensive solutions can buy. And Jarland (the owner) is a really trusted guy and until a week ago, the admin of Low End Talk.
There are no major downtimes. The panel is either CPanel for the more expensive plan and VestaCP for the lower end (this does not mean that the service is not top-notch, the only con is that the panel is not known like CPanel and there is no DKIM). The servers are really fast and they have mailchannels, so, deliverability is guaranteed.
No. DKIM is not a mandatory, especially when all other security aspects of the outgoing mail server is setup correctly and there is usage of an external mail relay for deliverability.
For more questions, ask @Jarland himself.
No, for God's sake. A business without a hired tech guy (or, at least, great knowledge by the owner himself) should not in any case try to build their own mailserver learning on that. Mails are one of the most critical aspects for most business, incoming or outgoing mails to spam or, even worse, to trash, are not acceptable...
A business should rely either on a cheap but reliable service like mxroute, rent a managed dedicated solution or pay for some pro accounts from a well known service like gmail, outlook, zoho etc.
My point exactly. I did not meant to say a person should start a business with testing and learning, but learning ahead of starting the business or hire a tech guy, or use professional accounts. Giving private business information to a cheap mail provider is no solution, because many things can happen with all that data when it's lost.
I recommend to use Yandex mail for own domains. Cheaper than MXRoute - free and does a great job. Also powered by one of the largest internet companies in Russia. Need SMTP? ElasticEmail.com is the best in my honest opinion(free up to 150 000 emails monthly which is solid amount) or Amazon SES(cheap). Both services should work completely fine with Yandex used as receiving-and-personal sending service.
P.S. All services support DKIM and SPF and will give excellent rating on "authentication" part at mail-tester.com.
Very good delivery? Is there a catch? Tempting...
@datanoise
No catch, using it happily here with zero complaints.
Happy to help out however I can. Seems your questions have pretty well been answered. Just know that the MXroute Classic plans were only marketed here on LET, and were intended for a minority of customers who preferred a replica of the service I first launched in late 2013, a very minimal and basic service.
I like mxroute though the available webmail interfaces are pretty crude. Using a client-side app like Thunderbird should be better. It's also a good delivery system if you want to occasionally mail from random VPS's. For higher volume they have separate plans where they resell mailchannels services to you directly.
I notice that their client area now supports 2FA login! I think that was missing before, though I might have overlooked it. Anyway it's there now and I've enabled it.
Can't go wrong. Check out Jarland's signature for the best deals. Nothing wrong with using it for business as long as it isn't spam or high traffic. For newsletters and large email campaigns you want their partner company MXRoute.io MXRoute.com is for email hosting and it does a great job.
If you don't know what DKIM is then it's probably not a big deal. With that said the non classic offers do have DKIM but you do need just a tiny bit of knowledge to get it done (their knowledge base will tell you what to do). Perhaps it's something you'll want later. But with that said you'll also need to do SPF and DMARC otherwise DKIM and SPF by themselves are kinda pointless without DMARC.
Don't listen to anyone that tells you to do your own email hosting. It's not a good idea, I can do it. I prefer not to do it. The risk of it being hi-jacked and your email address being barred all around town is pretty bad plus you gotta keep it up to date and follow up on all the right security protocols. It's just not worth the headache.
Can't go wrong with MXR. It just works and the support is pretty fast and good. For the financial part, if your in a multi-million dollar making situation, than go with some bigger players like google or microsoft. If not, MXR would be a good choice.
FTFY! Yandex is the largest search machine / mail provider in Russia and 4th search machine in the World (after Google -of course-, Bing and Baidu)
I cancelled after they brought MikePT onboard.
Not sure if your being serious, not a fan of El Cheapo?
I actually terminated @JoeMerit for intentional Viagra spam. Wasn't even automated, he just sat there in webmail sending one at a time.
@JoeMerit
O.o
He’s got nowt to do with MXRoute, has he?
Both do! 2FA has been there for a while IIRC.
He runs MXroute.io but afaik those two run separated from one other. Only thing is same name and branding. Correct me if I’m wrong...