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Had a great holiday thanks @eva2000

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I've just signed up using your link for Zoho, so I can stop having to pay for my lower volume accounts with Google

 

Ah, I thought it was a link to get you something extra.

 

Why i can see only @zoho.com mail registration?

 

I'm not a big fan of the hidden pricing on zoho for adding additional domains. It's great if someone just wants to host one domain, but for someone like me, I need to host multiple domains.

I've found a trend across all these service providers... they all have their own jargon they use to sell the services - users, mailboxes, etc. A customer is led on to believe that mailboxes is multiple @yourdomain.com which it's *@yourdomain.com.

I've tried to search around and find out how much it costs to host multiple domains on zoho mail. It looks like I might have to actually contact them about the price for additional domains. Since they don't have "Live Support" it looks like I'm going to actually have to type out an email - both Rackspace and Namecheap have Live Support. I'm so glad they give me the option to add additional domains: "Option to buy a new domain available when you sign up for a Standard or Premium plan." but don't specify exactly how much those cost.

Also, with zoho I'm seeing a ton of issues on their forums. People getting blacklisted, mail not being delivered, etc. I wouldn't doubt that some of it is user error, but if those email hosting servers are in India (I have nothing against India) those IP addresses are probably a prime target for spammers. I get so much spam on my forum from India IPs, that I had to resort to banning entire blocks of Indian IP addresses. Yes, I realize that the spammers can be using proxies, but forum spam is forum spam.

Check out the zoho forum: Zoho Corporation it's packed with people's complaints.

Rackspace is really nice, but a little pricey. They're upfront with their pricing. $2 per @domain per month with unlimited alias *@domain.com. (just spoke to a person on chat which took all of 3 minutes). Rackspace also has the name and reputation. I know things aren't going to go wrong and if they do, they'll fix it with their "hero" support.

Namecheap looks nice too and probably the one I'm going to go with. Each @domain is $9.98 per year and you get one address (whatever@domain.com) each additional *@domain.com is $2.98. So, if someone had there domains they wanted to host at namecheap it would be $9.98 x 3 per year. ~$30 USD is great and it comes with the Namecheap service reputation.

My two cents.

 

Weird issue, adblock was blocking the input box??? I had to turn off adblocking to post this.

Anyway, Zoho doesn't actually list how much each additional @domain.com would cost - but it appears to be $24 a year. For the basic user who isn't tech savvy they won't get that. I'm not saying it's a bad service, they should just make it clearer that $24 for the premium and $XX for additional domains.

Current sending limits:

Rackspace 20K in 24 hours
Rackspace hosted email system - daily sending limit | Knowledge Center | Rackspace Hosting

Fastmail has limits per account type (sent/received) from 120 (free), 2K/2K (lite), 4K/4K (basic), 8K/8K (pro) to 16K/80K (premiere)
Account limits | FastMail

Namecheap is 500 per hour or 12K per day.
Namecheap.com Knowledgebase • Differences between Namecheap Private Email and cPanel email
(Private Email: General Information,
cPanel Email FAQs,
)

Forums
Namecheap Email Hosting is pretty quiet. There are some complaints but nothing like I saw on Zoho
Namecheap.com Forums • View forum - Email Services / OpenXchange

Rackspace is the same, pretty tame and quiet
Email Products Forum - All Product Forums - The Rackspace Community

Though, I understand where you're coming from. But as we both run forums, we both can see when a forum is hostile and when one is tame with people asking informational questions and minor issues.

I actually use Mandrill for my servers.

 

I must have missed that in the welcome message.

Amazon, they are taking over the world.

"AWS Free Tier offers 62,000 messages per month to any recipient when you call Amazon SES from an Amazon EC2 instance."

Does Amazon offer a Mandrill like service or are you using the Amazon EC2 and sending out from the instance? If I can send 62K for free and they have a Mandrill like service, I'll use that instead. I couldn't find anything on their products page, though, they've got so many products on that page it's hard to find anything.

 

Why is the sending limit so low - 200 emails over a 24 hour period... unless I'm reading something wrong.

For one of my categories on my forum I might have 200 people who get an email when a new post is made... and that's at the category level. Individual thread might have a couple hundred followers which all get an email when there is a new reply. 200 emails isn't going to cut it for me.

Limits in Amazon SES - Amazon Simple Email Service

 

What kind of prices are you looking at for that kind of volume? Is it competitive with Mandrill?

 

Nice! I'm going to look into that... hopefully save me some money.

 

I just discovered two free @domain email provider. Don't know quality or security but wanted to share:

Pawnmail and Inbox.com - Mail Hosting

 

Does it also hide server IP address?