| I was researching this. And still am. I always come to conclusion that either I have to host mail for myself, or use Google Apps. I can't trust Microsoft to host my email, nor I want to trust Rackspace (for some odd reason, two feedbacks I received were from people who had negative experiences with them). Zoho is nice choise, but they had multi-week outage year or two ago, with somewhat unclear notification to users. Fastmail was always second choice, because it was more expensive for amount of mail I have now, which will need to be stored on their servers. Also, as I'll be hosting email for family, I calculate for 5 accounts. Google Apps came out to 25/month. Self-hosting option came out to one Linode machine, plus one other VPS provider machine located in different location for backup MX. That came out to 15/month. Fastmail was more expensive at the time (was I looking at business account for some reason?), but their pricing page -- https://www.fastmail.com/pricing/ -- shows that they are same price as Google. Can't seem to find their multi-year discount information. |
Sorry to hear you don't trust us. Is there anything I can clear up, or any questions I can answer? Feel free to email me directly - faisal.misle(at)rackspace.com. I'd love to hear any feedback/questions/concerns.