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Ask HN: Do you use an e-mail provider or run your own servers?
- dangrossman 14y agoInbound: Rackspace Mail [1]. $2/month/mailbox. 100% uptime SLA. 24/7/365 phone/chat/email support. Daily backup included. Spam filter works well. Outbound: Mandrill [2]. It's the same platform MailChimp (2.5M customers) runs on. SMTP or HTTP APIs. Free up to 12k mails a month. Zero problems, great deliverability. 1: http://www.rackspace.com/apps/email_hosting/rackspace_email/ http://www.rackspace.com/apps/email_hosting/rackspace_email/ 2: http://www.mandrill.com/ http://www.mandrill.com/
- raintrees 14y agoRun our own. We are also a backup for some of our clients, if their servers go down. We support Exchange, so we keep versions running here to stay familiar with the product.
- simonbouchard 14y agoWe run our own servers using iRedMail + iRedAdmin LDAP Pro. Hosting over 35 domains with a total of ~300K emails traffic per month on one server and it run perfectly. Spam filter work well when it has been tuned. http://www.iredmail.org/ http://www.iredmail.org/
- ankitml 14y agoCombination. Use gmail for almost all purposes. Mailchimp for managing subscription list. Own servers for other marketing emails, which although can be classified as semi spam.