Anyone have any tips for getting email storage cheap for a domain?

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I have quite a few sites hosted on TSOhost.com and elsewhere on the web. And a constant issue is email storage, with typical capacity on most cpanel packages being 500mb. Packages offering more always seem to be mega bucks. Im a bit of a noob with this stuff, what do people do? i run my own server on a static IP ive considered utilizing that since it wouldnt need to be fast for email (im on 1gb down 150mb up anyway) is that viable? is there an easy way im missing?

Anyone know anything?

Help appreciated
 
How many accounts? For a hand full of sites get a cheap reseller hosting account and you can configure each cpanel to use whatever you like.

Or do as Quartz suggests, I do that for my mum's email (I own our surname as a domain).
 
I have catch-all forwarding on my domains which forward everything to GMail.

This isn't always great because; spam email gets sent to your domain, your domain forwards it to GMail and GMail sees the spam emitting from your domains IP address rather than the original source, your sending IP will eventually have poor IP reputation as result.
Some hosts have server-side changes in place to try to counter this but with the growing rise of DMARC it's not really something that has sustainability and can bring about other issues in itself.

Some hosts also provide outbound filtering which will catch the spam and prevent it from being forwarded but it's not always bulletproof unfortunately.

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Self-hosting email is typically a bad idea for reasons such as
- Power + network uptime - loss of connectivity = emails likely to go undelivered to you and never seen again (Some sending servers will re-try but many don't these days)
- In a similar vein; monitoring - goes down, you need to fix it
- Most importantly - your residential (or even business IPs from typically residential providers) will be almost certainly be on blacklists already just for belonging to a residential ISP and your email may never make it to the recipients.

Finding a better provider than TSOHost would be the end goal. 500MB per package is ridiculously low, unless you mean quota per mailbox? In which case the same applies but can easily be increased probably just by asking them to switch it to "unlimited" which will let it utilize up to the total amount of storage of the cPanel account itself.
 
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