[ale] domain hosts

[Randy Hagan]

      The plan I'm on (small) hosts my Email for the entire domain.  I 
 believe it allows me to create an unlimited number of Email accounts.  
 My control panel shows (3 of infinity).  I currently have an Email for 
 myself, my wife, and a catch all.
      When I setup a new account it asks how much storage I want (and 
 gives the option for unlimited).  They have webmail, which I'm using 
 now.  Once you login, you have the option for three clients (Horde, 
 Roundcube, or Squirrelmail).  I've used them all, but just like the 
 clean looks of Roundcube (although it's limited).
      I also use IMAP config in mutt on my home Linux server (because I 
 can), and have another Linux box connecting to my accounts via POP3 to 
 pull my mail locally.  I don't like a cluttered in-box, so I enjoy 
 reading via the web, keep what I want, then when it starts to fill up, 
 login to my Linux box with Thunderbird and pull the messages down.  I 
 could leave the messages on the server if I wanted.  My current box I 
 limit to 250MB of storage.  My wife's is 250MB and my catch all I limit 
 to 50MB.
      I'm not sure if the bandwidth includes Email.  My Disk space usage 
 is currently at 40 of 750MB avail and my monthly bandwidth is at 159 of 
 15000MB, so I'm not using much.  I could probably drop down to the tiny 
 plan, but I was paying the same at GoDaddy, and figured I would support 
 a local company.
     The biggest change was the spam messages I got at first.  I didn't 
 have any filtering (which they have in the control panel) on.  I didn't 
 realize how much spam GoDaddy was filtering.  It took a few days, but 
 now I get about the same level of messages as I did with GoDaddy.
     Hope this helps.

 On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 15:11:19 -0500, Paul Cartwright 
 <ale at pcartwright.com> wrote:
> On 11/29/2010 01:59 PM, Randy Hagan wrote:
>>  I switched from Godaddy to an Atlanta local company called A Small
>>  Orange.  I've had them for a few months and so far no issues.
>
> ah, I remember looking at them before..
> so, they host your email? for your entire family? so you don't use
> webmail & leave the messages on the server??
> the bandwidth doesn't count email?

-- 
 Regards,

 Randy