MS exchange server - rent/dedicated/managed?

JGBR

JGBR

JGBR

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Hello

Helping set up small buisness

Am wondering if anyone had any dealings with using dedicated exchange services and providers/recommended?
 
I have experience in most server environments, just not specifically exchange

the department has very heavy and confidential email loads.
 
Because we have many protable devices and people need to login via browser etc.

also need some extra security settings etc.
 
We only have a standard buisness broadband package and no leased line , hence not having own server for it
 
What really worries me is how im going to have control over the dedicated server from the office particurly if i have to manually install exchange server etc
 
But - if i get your system right - you pay a couple of £ per email address? how does that work when mail services/web hosting with another provider etc?

Not being able to host our own servers has put me down a route that i have never tried, of outsourcing some of my ICT.
 
This is surely an economics question, if you start getting into 20-25 users then a server is cheaper then paying for every single box?
 
The cost of SBS or WS with exchange is still within range of more then 25 email addresses.

However, people can of course only relie on SBS on a decent internet connection - IE leased line?

Theirfore, anything in house is out the window!

Which leaves

dedicated server or exchange hosting
 
Well exchange I think you need to keep buying cals correct? and they come in groups of 5, so 25 users is 5 licences
 
Choices choices

My issue being:

No leased line for "in house"

and

I need probably atleast 25 exchange mail boxes
 
This comes down to cost again

25 mailboxes at 5 or 10 pounds a time is quite abit and within grasps of a full server?
 
I think the argument is that if you pay out for say 30 exchanged hosted licences then you might aswell do it yourself.
 
Due to OWA and the workload, our business broadband is unlikely to cope with the load. Also their is the question over the investment of small businesses in obviously all the inhouse costs.
 
You can say also that upstream bandwidth is variable on buisness broadband packages also, reliability is another issue.

This is a problem that perplexes buisnesses lol
 
Both BT and VM give static addresses per their top buisness broadbands, but we still talking about 1mb upload speed
 
So the debate so far is

1) The cost threshold of hosted exchange v doing it yourself (in some form) IE over 30 users
2) Self host/run on a buisness broadband connection
3) Rent a dedicated server and "do it yourself"

The connection would only handle email and nothing else? attachments being the issue presumably.
 
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