Backup Accounts - Page 2

oysterquartz · 10 Sep 2003, 09:33 PM

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Originally posted by bitequator
So Euro converted, GMX Pro is US$3.36/month (about US$40/year) and gives you 250MB? Not bad, but as I heard it's German-language only

The FM user w/ 650MB storage space I mentioned above now has 275MB allocated for his MailSnare account as well...

Bitequator,

Are you happy with Fastmail's and Mailsnare's Virtual Hosting of your domain's email? I'm thinking of having one or the other host one of my domains (I subscribe to both as well as Runbox) but can't decide on which service. The FM Enhanced account seems a little pricey compared to the 3 year MS Virtual Hosting option + Enhanced MS account.

Any feedback much apprecaited

bitequator · 11 Sep 2003, 02:06 AM

^ Hi, I don't actually have MailSnare virtual hosting for our MS accounts (yet). This was meant as a backup so I hadn't want to splurge on such features. I got their 5-pak 300MB pooled account for $89.95/yr then bought extra 250MB space for $25 one-time fee. I allocated nearly 300MB to our heaviest user... But truth be told we've barely used the MS accounts at all except for a few test messages

Well actually our heavy user has used its SMTP to send a few times when his FM SMTP connection had problems, so he already has like 150 msgs (maybe 15MB) on his MS Sent Items folder...

Eh I'm rusty on all the pricing (I've a bad memory). Let's see, the 3yr (single-account) MS Enhanced $50.95 plus 3yr VHost $22.95.. works out to $24.63/yr (60MB space)? The 3yr term seems to be a good deal for VHost as they waive the normal $9.95 setup fee.

3yr FM Enhanced is $33.28/yr (150MB space)?

As I recall when I'd compared though, Runbox had the biggest pricing slide as you move up to multi-year + multi-pak accounts (MailSnare doesn't offer multi-year discounts for a multi-pak account). But as I said my username was already taken on Runbox... Anyways there are of course various feature trade-offs among these services that would also influence one's decision (but I'll not stray further OT hehe).

bitequator · 11 Sep 2003, 02:39 AM

My setup -- let's take a hypothetical Smith family: Bob, Peter, Mary, Jane.

They each have an FM Enhanced account whose virtual domain (hosted at eNom, MX pointed to FM) is respectively: bob.com, peter.com, mary.com, jane.com.

Now they each also have a MailSnare Enhanced account (but with no virtual hosting). Furthermore, for the abovementioned FM virtual domains hosted at eNom, they've inserted a 3rd-party backup MX mail forwarding server that is set to forward (via catchall) to their respective MailSnare account. Currently for the root domain, this is eNom's own mail forwarding, but they might swap it for ZoneEdit's mail forwarding (which is already specified for the forwarding of subdomain addresses). This is in case FM should go down for a lengthy time and they don't want to wait on FM's own backup queueing.

They also have a shared smith.com lastname domain using ZoneEdit forwarding (ex: bob@ smith.com address forwarded by ZE to Bob's FM account). Bob seems to like using this address all the time even though he's better off using his personal domain ([ANY]@ bob.com)

In deference to Bob, they also set up ZoneEdit subdomain forwarding so, for example Bob can also use [ANY]@ bob.smith.com, etc.

Lastly they each also have another personal domain in a different TLD: bob.net, peter.net, mary.net, jane.net. These are hosted at MyDomain where the mail is forwarded (via catchall) to their respective MailSnare account. If they can afford it later, they might move these domains directly into MailSnare virtual hosting.

I guess there's no point to some of these redundancies. It's just we already have multiple domains in different TLDs, might as well use them

11 Sep 2003, 02:06 AM	#17
bitequator The "e" in e-mail Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: USA Posts: 2,978	^ Hi, I don't actually have MailSnare virtual hosting for our MS accounts (yet). This was meant as a backup so I hadn't want to splurge on such features. I got their 5-pak 300MB pooled account for $89.95/yr then bought extra 250MB space for $25 one-time fee. I allocated nearly 300MB to our heaviest user... But truth be told we've barely used the MS accounts at all except for a few test messages Well actually our heavy user has used its SMTP to send a few times when his FM SMTP connection had problems, so he already has like 150 msgs (maybe 15MB) on his MS Sent Items folder... Eh I'm rusty on all the pricing (I've a bad memory). Let's see, the 3yr (single-account) MS Enhanced $50.95 plus 3yr VHost $22.95.. works out to $24.63/yr (60MB space)? The 3yr term seems to be a good deal for VHost as they waive the normal $9.95 setup fee. 3yr FM Enhanced is $33.28/yr (150MB space)? As I recall when I'd compared though, Runbox had the biggest pricing slide as you move up to multi-year + multi-pak accounts (MailSnare doesn't offer multi-year discounts for a multi-pak account). But as I said my username was already taken on Runbox... Anyways there are of course various feature trade-offs among these services that would also influence one's decision (but I'll not stray further OT hehe). Last edited by bitequator : 11 Sep 2003 at 02:10 AM.

11 Sep 2003, 02:39 AM	#18
bitequator The "e" in e-mail Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: USA Posts: 2,978	My setup -- let's take a hypothetical Smith family: Bob, Peter, Mary, Jane. They each have an FM Enhanced account whose virtual domain (hosted at eNom, MX pointed to FM) is respectively: bob.com, peter.com, mary.com, jane.com. Now they each also have a MailSnare Enhanced account (but with no virtual hosting). Furthermore, for the abovementioned FM virtual domains hosted at eNom, they've inserted a 3rd-party backup MX mail forwarding server that is set to forward (via catchall) to their respective MailSnare account. Currently for the root domain, this is eNom's own mail forwarding, but they might swap it for ZoneEdit's mail forwarding (which is already specified for the forwarding of subdomain addresses). This is in case FM should go down for a lengthy time and they don't want to wait on FM's own backup queueing. They also have a shared smith.com lastname domain using ZoneEdit forwarding (ex: bob@ smith.com address forwarded by ZE to Bob's FM account). Bob seems to like using this address all the time even though he's better off using his personal domain ([ANY]@ bob.com) In deference to Bob, they also set up ZoneEdit subdomain forwarding so, for example Bob can also use [ANY]@ bob.smith.com, etc. Lastly they each also have another personal domain in a different TLD: bob.net, peter.net, mary.net, jane.net. These are hosted at MyDomain where the mail is forwarded (via catchall) to their respective MailSnare account. If they can afford it later, they might move these domains directly into MailSnare virtual hosting. I guess there's no point to some of these redundancies. It's just we already have multiple domains in different TLDs, might as well use them Last edited by bitequator : 11 Sep 2003 at 02:46 AM.