Recommend an Email Hosting Service

[shifty_uk]

What exactly is included in your plan out of curiosity? Is it a package that has unlimited mailboxes for your domain, XGB disk space, a database like mysql etc?

 

[nheather]

What exactly is included in your plan out of curiosity? Is it a package that has unlimited mailboxes for your domain, XGB disk space, a database like mysql etc?

Yep, plus the ability to host web front end and back-end applications like Python, Java or PHP code.

 

[throwaway4372]

Thanks for that. That works out at £118 per year.

What puzzles me is why is my current service so cheap. I can make as many email accounts as I want, I could have 50 and that doesn’t change the price. In fact it is much cheaper than the fastmail family package plus I get web, application and database hosting included.

Although I’m half expecting 123Reg to ramp up the price when renewal comes round, because they only promised to honour the remainder of the year that had already been paid for at the time they purchased the previous provider.

You can calculate what your package would be at 123Reg current prices. Looks like email is per user there too. Plus the cost of hosting you don't really need anymore. Could end up being more than the alternatives.

 

[nheather]

You can calculate what your package would be at 123Reg current prices. Looks like email is per user there too. Plus the cost of hosting you don't really need anymore. Could end up being more than the alternatives.

It’s certainly going to more than I am paying at the moment which is about £50 a year.

It’s going to be interesting to see what 123Reg suggest, because I don’t think the package I have at the moment exists.

In fact that may be the issue for years now. I’ve had the service for at least 20 years, when I first took it out it was £50 per year, and it has stayed at pretty much that price for 20 years. I think there may be two reasons why, 1) that they could see how little I used it so it didn’t bother them 2) and more likely, that my product became legacy and because it was no longer in the product list they didn’t have a price for it, so they just used the old price.

It all started with Dataflame, then it was taken over by TSOHost who just ran it exactly as Dataflame did, and last year it was taken over by 123Reg - but I think they just took over the TSOHost infrastructure rather than moving me onto the 123Reg infrastructure because nothing changed, the mail server names, the email accounts, the logins all remained unchanged.

 

[shifty_uk]

For a similar style of package, check out https://krystal.io/hosting

Although, as above, you might find 123reg are still cheaper as Krystal works out at 80+ per year for their smallest package.

I’ve used them a couple of times in the past, never had a bad experience and plenty of others rate them.

Edit:
Should also add, depending on what your plans are, you’ll have 20 years worth of emails and other data to migrate to another provider, unless they’re stored locally. Something to consider.. weighing up cost, minor speed benefits vs the annoyance of moving, it might be better to stay put.

 

[nheather]

For a similar style of package, check out https://krystal.io/hosting

Although, as above, you might find 123reg are still cheaper as Krystal works out at 80+ per year for their smallest package.

I’ve used them a couple of times in the past, never had a bad experience and plenty of others rate them.

Edit:
Should also add, depending on what your plans are, you’ll have 20 years worth of emails and other data to migrate to another provider, unless they’re stored locally. Something to consider.. weighing up cost, minor speed benefits vs the annoyance of moving, it might be better to stay put.

No, we all use Outlook desktop client, this is set so they are removed from the sever 30 days after they are downloaded. The 30 days is to allow IMAp (phone and tablet) to see them for a while.

I use up very little of the quota.