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Ask HN: Email hosting for your customers. What is the best soln?

• shail 15y ago
  The user base might be really huge. So, solutions such as google apps are not financially viable. Hosting your own server might be a pain. Please share any experience (exactly how painful is that). Both cloud based and server based are options and something really cost effective is desired.
  • shail 15y ago
    There are many companies doing this for bulk email sending like sendgrid, mailjet, mailchimp etc. but no one is doing it for hosting emails with bulk pricing.
    • johnny22 15y ago
      i don't know what rates you consider reasonable, but there are plenty of services that do it. rackspace and fastmail are two off the top of my head. I consider them far too expensive for myself though.
      • shail 15y ago
        exactly, thats just too costly. I mean it should really not be this expensive. Why email hosting is being charged per mailbox I do not understand. The maintenance is not per mailbox. Its per mail server and hence should be the costing.