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A direct look at paid family email hosting.
Binaryzero
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I have spent the last ten days scouring the internet looking for email hosting. I am more than happy to pay for the hosting, but I do have a personal cap (that is somewhat variable) where it stops being feasible.
So what I have found is there are only a few viable hosts for personal/family email hosting for less than ten users, and here is my list.
MXroute (Forerunner, cares for their service and IPs so low to no blacklists and best cost per user )
Scalahosting (Removed their enhanced spam protection on all tiers, only offers blacklist protection on max tier)
Namescheap and a few others are per user per month. I would rather pay a flat fee yearly.
Buy hosting and use built-in email. However, this has a high risk of blacklisting IPs because of shared IP pools.
Am I missing anything or any new suggestions?
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Fastmail
Zoho
Postale
Runbox
If you want to go the shared hosting route and just use the built-in email, a provider with MailChannels would potentially solve blocklisting issues. It may be expensive than the typical shared host though, plus, I'd rather use something that's actually focused on email since they tend to know more about keeping spam out and the like.
Fastmail works great has decent spam filtering the last time I tried it. Personally, I'm on a Microsoft 365 subscription since I use the Office licenses that come along with it, and the 1TB storage for OneDrive ain't bad for the cost.
If I weren't using the Office licenses I would go for MXroute or a self-hosted VPS and run my own.
They appear to have about the same per user per month costs as google. $500 a year
Hard pass, I have worked with them in the past.
I will have to look into this one, thank you!!
It seems to nickel and dime you, one account to start and then more for each account, $35 for main, and $15 for each additional account.
I will look into that,pitty it is $80 a month.
If there were not so gosh darn expansive, they were at the top of my list when I started.
And I get EPP rates too, I need to look over the how-to-do-it without Godaddy DNS.
Thanks, these are solid suggestions.
@MikePT is using MailChannels for ALL outbound Emails. Plus you got real hosting space for projects. Plus MyW has lifetime plan.
Or if you don't care about Bytedance, Larksuite's Email is said to be a wrapper around AWS SES. Free.
... $15,000 for a 30 year email account setup ... 😂😂😅
Purelymail? $10/year
Oh and Migadu
Yandex
I live in the US, so hard pass.
I am a total noob here, so I am not following your shorthand for the providers.
But LARK seems like a datamine, and I do not trust its parent.
@MikePT his shared hosting uses mailchannels.
You are limited only by the diskspace (which you can always upgrade as required) & not by email accounts/domains
https://myw.pt
Looks cool but gives a "not ready for primetime" feel...
I have this one is the solid maybe, they do not seem to offer pricing in USD, and if that is the case conversion rates may cause issues.
This one is interesting and requires more research. Even cooler is their info in the imapsync tool
Infomaniak - cheap for a family, reliable company
ProtonMail - decent but expensive
OVH - cheap for an individual inbox, pricing varies depending on the country
Migadu - small company, low sending limits
Purelymail - low cost, but relatively new and a one man show
Yandex 360 - decent, but how long will the free tier last?
VK WorkMail - old Mail.ru, wouldn't trust it
500mail - new, but from a kind of established company
Lark - new, no IMAP/SMTP, from ByteDance, wouldn't trust it
RackNerd also uses MailChannels
Thank you @Nyr I have already excluded some of these BUT there are some new ones for me to look at too!
Why are we skipping free Gmail, outlook, etc?
Infomaniak is great. Why not just get the MS Outlook family plan?
You can't host a custom domain for free at any of those.
Thanks I will dig deeper into their site
because at its core it is a violation of their TOS, and my Office365 is EPP from my work. So the two are linked to at the some level.
Two more European options:
I will list more if I remember.
Thanks! Side note I am US based.
FYI you can generate IMAP credentials by logging into their app - and remove it afterwards.
What about mailbox.org?
Their PUPM is still 30 euros better than many but not great, plus their only DC is in Germany.
I'm not sure if you'll get everything you're asking for in the price you want and the locations you want. Gotta shell out the moolah for the service that best fits your needs.
I am sorry if I offended, it was not my intent, I value your feedback and suggestions, I was just explaining my reasoning, and to me $30+ a month (I am not sure the euro/dollar conversions at this time) for email only is too low an ROI when they do not offer things like a US-based DC and most importantly IP blacklist protection. I am more than happy to pay but not business prices for my family email.
No offence taken at all! I think Mxroute is your best bet.