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#1 +remixedcat

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Posted 11 December 2012 - 15:32

I wanna have it externally hosted with my domain...

Something like google apps mail was but they pulled the plug on the free service.

any good free ones or ones that are dirt cheap (less then 20/yr) Please let me know!!!


#2 +Shikaka

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Posted 11 December 2012 - 15:34

Windows Live Domains is Free

I use it for the majority of my clients and they love it because they are use to using Hotmail, its exactly the same as Hotmail :)

#3 OP +remixedcat

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Posted 11 December 2012 - 15:53

Awesome!!! Got it setup allready! Very easy! Thank you!!! :cat:

#4 +sc302

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Posted 11 December 2012 - 15:56

get a static IP and host it yourself....you should have the means to be able to do it. If you have under 10 email adds per domain, you can have barracuda filter mail for free.

#5 Ambroos

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Posted 11 December 2012 - 16:01

View Postsc302, on 11 December 2012 - 15:56, said:

get a static IP and host it yourself....you should have the means to be able to do it. If you have under 10 email adds per domain, you can have barracuda filter mail for free.
With the energy costs and everything that's probably not interesting...

#6 OP +remixedcat

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Posted 11 December 2012 - 16:04

View Postsc302, on 11 December 2012 - 15:56, said:

get a static IP and host it yourself....you should have the means to be able to do it. If you have under 10 email adds per domain, you can have barracuda filter mail for free.

my site's on azure cloud so I didn't wanna mess with email setup on it... plus I like having it in a different place....

#7 +sc302

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Posted 11 December 2012 - 16:11

View PostAmbroos, on 11 December 2012 - 16:01, said:

With the energy costs and everything that's probably not interesting...
She is big into vmware, there would be little to no additional energy cost that what she has now and there would be no additional physical space being taken up.

View Postremixedcat, on 11 December 2012 - 16:04, said:

my site's on azure cloud so I didn't wanna mess with email setup on it... plus I like having it in a different place....
Just adhering to the cost effectiveness you were trying to stay with vs the externally hosted.

#8 OP +remixedcat

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Posted 11 December 2012 - 16:47

Actually I'm leaning towards Hyper-V now *GASP!*

I actually do not own my own datacenter....so I can't self host it and my ISP won't give mer a static IP for my home connection.... and I'm broke as a joke to upgrade it right now....


Also I like to componentize things... so if one goes down I still have the other...

#9 +sc302

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Posted 11 December 2012 - 17:39

What does owning your own datacenter have to do with boo...your ISP would have to give you a static.

And with your ability, you should have a cluster so that if one goes down the other takes over.

#10 z0phi3l

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Posted 11 December 2012 - 17:50

View Postsc302, on 11 December 2012 - 17:39, said:

What does owning your own datacenter have to do with boo...your ISP would have to give you a static.

And with your ability, you should have a cluster so that if one goes down the other takes over.

Generally you have to have a Business account and pay extra for a Static IP form most if not all ISPs

#11 OP +remixedcat

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Posted 11 December 2012 - 17:52

I wish I had my own datacenter!!!

I don't have a server cluster at home... just one server is all I can afford to keep running...

Wanna pay my electric bill ?? Lol

#12 DPyro

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Posted 11 December 2012 - 19:03

Pretty cool. Says you can have up to 500 email addresses :D

#13 ~Neowin~

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Posted 12 December 2012 - 11:16

mail.com you can get many fancy ids.

#14 OP +remixedcat

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Posted 12 December 2012 - 11:37

this is for my own domain that I own... I use that mail.com service though so I can have kittymail and sailormoon.com email addresses... LOL XD

#15 primexx

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Posted 13 December 2012 - 07:36

Windows Live Domains is free, it's not good compared to Google Apps but at least you get to use Outlook.com with it (my earlier rant about it)

You can use Hover if you transfer your domain there too. Nice registrar btw.

Soho office is the other big one that people tend to recommend.