Web Hosting w/mail

[TenPenny]

We (small business, 15 employees) are currently not happy with our present host. Like all businesses, we use email a lot. When we travel across the country, we have to change smtp settings depending on what province we're in; for some employees, this is very, very hard to understand. And we often need to receive large attachments, which seems to push the limits of our current host.

Anyone have suggestions for and experiences with good Canadian hosting services with good email / web capabilities for businesses?

 

[DavidB]

Where are you located?

In any case, e-mail sending limits should be an option that can be changed via your service provider. For extremely large e-mails, it would be better to set up an FTP site on your site, from which recipients can simply download large documents.

Alternately, there are several online services that offer the ability to send large e-mails (and you wouldn't have to change your existing host).

Regards,


David

 

[Kreskin]

Canadianwebhosting.com is a good host. They are the most reliable I have used. Check them out, give them an email with your needs and see if they're a fit.

 

[Judland]

I'd say, host your own service.

It's very easy if you use Linux. I set up my own web/ftp/mail server on a clunky old 400MHz Toshiba laptop with 32MB of RAM.

It runs really well with Linux at the helm. I use a DNS forwarding service to keep my domain name forwarded to the proper IP address (as my Internet service provider sometimes changes my IP).

The laptop and software was free (the office I work for deemed the laptop too old to be of any use to anyone), so all I had to pay for was my DNS forwarding service, and my Internet service of course. Being a laptop, the system uses very little electricity (compared to a full sized desktop) and it takes up little space.

Took me a few hours on a Saturday afternoon to set everything up.

The great thing about hosting your own server is that you have control over the content and the storage space. And security is another thing Linux makes really easy to maintain.

That's what I'd suggest. PM me if you'd like more information.

 

[web-worm]

I suggest canaca

Hi there,

I had the a similar problem with my previous host when I tried to retrive e-mails from a my account.
If the e-mails were large I used to get a php memory error and they refused to increase the size of the php scripts which could be run on the server.

I switched to canaca.com and the problem was solved.
They increased my resources for free and I am fine now.

Their prices are also great and they have cpanel as their control panel (they used to have ensim which sucks)