Exchange 2007 Email Hosting Offer (Personal Server, looking for 4 more people)

[morefood2001]

For the past few years, I have tried every kind of email hosting, and I always end up crawling back to momma Microsoft (Its a joke that John will get ). Microsoft exchange is the solution to my email dilemmas and I decided to set up my own server to host my own email. I don't really feel like or want to be paying for the entire cost of the server, therefore I am selling a few accounts to bring in just enough to pay for the server (I will count as 1-2 of those paying accounts).

I'm still fairly new to exchange administration and I'm still fixing tiny quarks in the system with sending mail, etc as they pop up. Nothing thus far has been really a big problem that couldn't be fixed within a matter of minutes. I'm generally reachable within 12 hours of an email (usually an hour when I'm up).

Server details:

-My exchange / windows licensing is free.
-The server runs windows x64 server 2003 and exchange 2007 enterprise.
-I might up the ram / disk in the future if there is a ton of demand and I feel like supporting the server accounts as a professional host.
-For now, the server is set to handle 8 accounts at 5GB a piece
-I take redundant backups every other day.
-I will not be filling all 8 account spots; I want to reserve disk for people going over, backups, etc.

So with all that out of the way,

I need 4-5 more users paying $5 per month (it will be through clientexec, an automated paypal billing system). I'm fine going 60/year or 30/half year.

Here is what you will get:

-Exchange 2007 5GB mailbox - warnings will be set to 4500MB
-Outlook web access - ssl secured with rapidssl
-Outlook 2003/2007 access (never set this up, but it should work)
-IMAP access (I disabled pop access, no one ever uses that on exchange)
-Activesync mobile push access for Windows Mobile 6, I can probably help with WM5 since that seems to just have a certificate acceptance problem. I found I can do blackberry also for a licensing cost through blackberry's site - it would be the professional edition)
-your own domain/email. I do not have a shared domain. You must have your own domain name and set dns appropriately for mail (I will get into details during setup). If you wish, I can charge $10/year and register the domain for you to keep your identity hidden. I can probably offer you some sort of webspace but that can be discussed later.

I have not yet figured out how to exactly filter for spam and drop it into the junk mail folder. The incoming server mail will only be rejected if the SPL is above 9 (meaning its surely spam, highest setting available to me). I also don't know if viruses are filtered, but all viruses I've ever seen in email are obvious zip files or something like that.

Because of my filtering tactics, I am only going to offer this to established codecall members (at least 2 months of membership and 50 posts) because developers normally can distinguish a virus in an email and fix the problem themselves. I will provide basic support with setup and usage, but I don't expect a question every hour saying how do I open my contacts list or something similar. I'm also going to manually accept orders to prevent fraud, etc.

Compared to most hosts, this is a smoking deal (dirt cheap). Its a server that will have very few users on it, just enough to pay the expenses, and I want to get it filled asap so I don't keep paying for almost the entire server every month. The price will never go up, etc. If you're interested, post to this thread or pm me. You can also email me to grab my attention much faster: phil@matthouse.us. I'm willing to take questions here also.

[morefood2001]

Sorry for the double post, but Justin (admin of amphosted) will provide discounted hosting and your domain though his company at AmpHosted - Main (Reliable Hosting, Unlimited Hosting, Linux Hosting, Reseller Hosting, Cpanel Hosting, FFMPEG Hosting)

[smith]

Exchange is a pretty nasty product unless you are a member of a large network on a windows domain. I have no idea why you would want it for personal use or even pay for it (if you explained why, I didn't read more than the first paragraph, sorry).

[morefood2001]

Exchange is a pretty nasty product unless you are a member of a large network on a windows domain. I have no idea why you would want it for personal use or even pay for it (if you explained why, I didn't read more than the first paragraph, sorry).

I wish I could agree, but every other email service / software I've ever used doesn't even come close to what exchange can do Gmail (the solution most people use) always messes up on calendar syncs among many other small problems and user interface quarks, and hotmail won't even calendar sync with their premium service. I've looked at many other providers and solutions too. Openxchange comes close but their user interface is horribly bloated and takes 10 minutes to load with 500 messages stored on the server.

I like having push email and file/calendar syncs to everything I use. Exchange's online webmail (owa) is very easy to use and very quick to load. Its expensive but well worth the cost to me.