Hosted Email Provider

[garethevans1986]

Hey all

The company I currently work for is looking to host their emails externally so I'm looking for recommendations as to who to go with.

We currently have email hosted internally on a Linux box which is fine but nobody here really supports it. Because the company is run using email for day to day tasks etc it's detrimental to the company if we have any downtime.

It would be nice to have some kind of collaboration (calender, address book etc) with the hosted email.

I did look at Google but got this as a reply "Not sure I trust Google any more than I trust Microsoft as they are both ruthless-business behemoths...".

Anybody have any ideas?

GE

[snuffy]

Hosted is the way forward in my opinon. I'd rather go with the pay option as there is an SLA etc if you need to get a resolution to a problem. In my opinon, to keep up with the latest Technology stick to the Microsoft Hosted / BPOS route.

[+JanSolo Subscriber²]

Everyone.net and Mailstreet both offer hosted email.

IF you want Sharepoint, then you need to shop around for a provider that offers both. Mailstreet offers Sharepoint, but it's via a different company so you'll have two separate login IDs which means two different sets of passwords, too. Messy.

[garethevans1986]

The Microsoft route is expensive, we want to keep costs to a minimum.

GE

[Mr. Gibs]

How many users (email boxes) do you have first of all?

[witalit]

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I did look at Google but got this as a reply "Not sure I trust Google any more than I trust Microsoft as they are both ruthless-business behemoths...".

And that's his professional opinion why not to go with either of them?... Id say the most important is as someone said above SLA's. They are business critical.

[garethevans1986]

30-40 email Inboxes.

The fella who came out with the quote above also looks after the network and is an Engineer not an IT monkey like myself.

GE