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Looking for recommendations for web and email hosting
G'day. Currently I have an informational website for my micro business and around 60GB (uncompressed) worth of emails over 20 email accounts/inboxes. There are 5 custom domains for these email addresses. I pay less than US$3/month for email hosting (purelymail). Purelymail is very good served my needs so far but I am looking ahead to see if there are better email hosting plans for not more than US$3/month. My business is email intensive with a lot of attachments and the storage needs will increase.
Would appreciate your recommendations.
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is what sense better? Faster? Better support? Nicer UI? I usually follow a sysadmin rule 'if it works - do not touch it'.
People here recommend mxroute @jar usually. You can probably find good offers but you need to keep a close eye, they are popular.
+1 for MXRoute, they're quite popular here for good reason.
A couple of thoughts:
$3/mo for 60GB across 20 mailboxes and 5 domains is already a pretty good deal. Most providers would charge more for that usage pattern.
Consider setting up regular offline backups (IMAP sync to local Thunderbird or imapsync to a backup server). Business-critical emails across 60GB are worth protecting regardless of provider.
If your growth continues, you might eventually outgrow shared email hosting. Self-hosted options like Mailcow on a cheap VPS give you more control, but require maintenance time.
For the web hosting part - if it's just an informational site, even a $5/yr static hosting would work. Many folks here use Cloudflare Pages or Netlify for free.
Our shared hosting plans include MailChannels (500 emails per hour), and start at $3/mo: https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/213991/ethernet-servers-nvme-ssd-cpanel-hosting-usa-uk-fr-sg-free-upgrade
If you go self host you will need relay for care free, so take in consideration that is ++ money spend. Better to w8 for some promo from mxroute. Or if you can't w8 this one is in stock 100gb nvme for 15euros/year. 2 coffees. They use mail baby I think, can be wrong tho.
https://my.hostbrr.com/order/main/packages/directadmin/?group_id=24
I think that price at PurelyMail is pretty hard to beat, especially with that email volume. Most alternatives with storage tend to raise the cost too much or even limit the number of domains. If the growth is going to be significant, have you considered separating your web and email services and accepting that email will end up costing a bit more?
dont be kedekut please.
Cranemail cheapest plan is just $10 for 100gb. Maybe can further upgrade later as your storage needs grow. I'm a huge believer of segregation so I'd say host the website elsewhere on another provider so no 1 provider having problem to take everything down. Imapsync to backblaze or aws glacier or something for proper 3-2-1 backup, if its that important don't just yolo trust that single provider storage.