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What do you get for less than $35 per year? A cheap VPS? Are there plans for less than $3 per month these days?
by glandium 8y ago
What do you get for less than $35 per year? A cheap VPS? Are there plans for less than $3 per month these days?
- nadont8 8y agoThis 1-XS server costs 2€ every month and it could perfectly handle the email of hundreds of users. They are charging you more only for yourself, and that's not even factoring in the economies of scale. https://www.scaleway.com/virtual-cloud-servers/#anchor_starter https://www.scaleway.com/virtual-cloud-servers/#anchor_start...
- wtetzner 8y agoFastmail has employees that have to be paid. You're paying that money instead of the time required to maintain your own email server.
- nadont8 8y agoI understand that, but paying 100x what a VPS would cost, that's a rip-off. (100x because a VPS can handle the email of 100 people or even more.)
- wtetzner 8y agoBut what does the price of a VPS have to do with anything? I doubt hosting would be their biggest cost.
- nadont8 8y agoWhy shouldn't hosting be their biggest cost?
- actuallyalys 8y agoWell, think about the VPS you're proposing. Two euros a month is 24€ a year. Even if you're only paying yourself 6€ an hour, I'm skeptical that running an email server for 100 people would require less than four hours per year.
- bennofs 8y agomailbox.org and posteo.de are both 1€ per month. I haven't used either though.
- newscracker 8y agoI use Posteo and would highly recommend it. There may be occasional hiccups, but those seem to be few and far between.