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I'm a big fan of outsourcing IT services like email. We have been using a low cost email provider called 1and1.com for hosting our calendaring, contacts and email. They support Outlook Web Access (OWA) so you can use Outlook, offer web based email access, and are relatively inexpensive.
The problem is that 1and1 is a pretty poor service provider, so I'm looking for a new Exchange Hosting partner to handle our email.
The requirements are:
- Offers integrated calendaring, email, and contacts (Exchange)
- Offers a web based client
- Offers OWA (Outlook Web Access)
- Offers Blackberry Enterprise Solution to extend the benefits of Microsoft Exchange
I'm looking for recommendations on Exchange Hosting with BES. Please feel free to tell me which service providers you like and which ones to avoid.
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Who should we use? And who should we avoid?
We are using ASP-One and it has been pretty reliable. It's much better than 1and1.
Our office uses Intermedia. They're service is great and they offer SharePoint service as well.
We were having the same problems with another provider - mail street - so we switched to intermedia. they offer what you're looking for as far as blackberry. owa, etc.
We are going to make the jump to gmail for domains.
I work for a company called Norlight. We offer this service and at very good rates. $12.95 includes Outllok 2007, OWA, and 5GB of storage. (You can get a web only version with 1 GB for $6.95). Best of all, we have personal account reps because we're a local exchange carriers as well. So when you have problems or need help, you always talk to the same person - your personal account manager which in this case would be me. :-)
I've been very happy with gmail for domains. The calendar works well, the email is reliable, the spam filtering is very good as well and the free price is hard to beat.
As with other posters, I was equally dissatisfied with 1&1, but I found a better provider: 123Together.com. Strange name but great service. I find it much more reliable than 1&1 and faster and it has US based tech support, not that I've had to use it yet. With 1&1, I had multiple poor tech support experiences with the overseas tech support lines.
123Together also offers Sharepoint service, just like 1&1. I've been very pleased with the experience, now 6 months into using them.
Has anyone heard of App River or Sherwood? App River is US based (Texas) and they claim to have a 98% rentention rate adn do split domains. Same thing applies for Sherwood but they are in Canada
We have been with Apps4Rent for about a year now. No downtimes and great service by them. I never had to contact support becuase of the document. Only once I did during a weekend and the support was quick and precise.
Also, I am not paying much...the lowest plan is $6.95 for 1 GB mailbox and I have around 35 mailboxes. Honestly I started with 1 mailbox and the slowly added more as I recruited more.
What I dont like about some providers is that they want you to buy for minimum number of users maybe 5 or 10 even if you dont use it. Those numbers are waste of money till you add more.
They have a 30 day risk free trial and I did not have to use it and ask for money back at all.
MHL says:
2 years ago
I am in the same boat; 1and1 is terrible. Let me know who you find: I am looking for sharepoint, ftp, and exchange services. I am in the slow boat for sure.