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billski · June 24th, 2005, 2:17 PM

Got your name from dslreports.com forum.

I am bailing my domain www.iabsi.com from Verizon hosting ASAP. Poor value and I simply don't use half the features. I need lots of web storage (limited to 150MB now), not a lot of bandwidth for webhosting, but we use POP email very heavily. I'm having trouble comparing plans and seeing what's included.

1. What's the diff between an OC5 and "shared" plans, other than price, payment, storage and bandwidth? Do they otherwise have all the same features?

2. Are frontpage extensions offered on all shared plans?

3. Webmail available on all shared plans?

4. Any termination penalties?

EMAIL
POP/SMTP email is critical here. We simply cannot be without it.
4. Max mailbox size per user? We regularly hit the 10MB limit. (Don't tell me about FTP.... I am lucky that my correspondents have figured out how to attach files!)

5. Have your servers ever been "blacklisted" by spam blocking software due to abusive customers? If so, how was it remedied? (Been burned here once.)

EMAIL CONTINUITY
6. I have registered my domain with netsol.com and it runs through 2008. I must minimize email downtime during the switchover. Tell me how to do this. If changing the name servers over at netsol (I have an account) myself is expeditious, then I am unafraid to do it myself. We use Outlook email clients, so I'm assuming I'll have to point the clients at the new send & receive servers, setup mail accounts, etc. We leave nothing on the pop/smtp servers , so nothing should be lost.

7. We use our broadband ISP's (comcast) only to send mail (authenticated of course) as the other necessary item to avoid further blocking due to email relay blocking. Again, we are not spammers, just victims of those who once were co-resident on our shared mail servers at verizon. It resulted in our various recipient's email servers rejecting our email to colleagues. Should we continue to go through comcast to send mail?

Thank you,
Bill
Lexington, Mass.

June 24th, 2005, 2:17 PM	#1 (permalink)
billski Registered User Fresh Surpasser Joined in Jun 2005 26 posts Gave thanks: 0 Thanked 0 times	Email is critical Got your name from dslreports.com forum. I am bailing my domain www.iabsi.com from Verizon hosting ASAP. Poor value and I simply don't use half the features. I need lots of web storage (limited to 150MB now), not a lot of bandwidth for webhosting, but we use POP email very heavily. I'm having trouble comparing plans and seeing what's included. 1. What's the diff between an OC5 and "shared" plans, other than price, payment, storage and bandwidth? Do they otherwise have all the same features? 2. Are frontpage extensions offered on all shared plans? 3. Webmail available on all shared plans? 4. Any termination penalties? EMAIL POP/SMTP email is critical here. We simply cannot be without it. 4. Max mailbox size per user? We regularly hit the 10MB limit. (Don't tell me about FTP.... I am lucky that my correspondents have figured out how to attach files!) 5. Have your servers ever been "blacklisted" by spam blocking software due to abusive customers? If so, how was it remedied? (Been burned here once.) EMAIL CONTINUITY 6. I have registered my domain with netsol.com and it runs through 2008. I must minimize email downtime during the switchover. Tell me how to do this. If changing the name servers over at netsol (I have an account) myself is expeditious, then I am unafraid to do it myself. We use Outlook email clients, so I'm assuming I'll have to point the clients at the new send & receive servers, setup mail accounts, etc. We leave nothing on the pop/smtp servers , so nothing should be lost. 7. We use our broadband ISP's (comcast) only to send mail (authenticated of course) as the other necessary item to avoid further blocking due to email relay blocking. Again, we are not spammers, just victims of those who once were co-resident on our shared mail servers at verizon. It resulted in our various recipient's email servers rejecting our email to colleagues. Should we continue to go through comcast to send mail? Thank you, Bill Lexington, Mass.