Re: [PLUG] Corporate email and webpage hosting provider?

[Bill Patterson <patterson@computer.org>]

I've had good service from phpwebhosting.com (after they were taken over 
by new owners in 2000 or 2001), with the site never disappearing or 
losing data. There have been occasional down times.  But there was an 
experience prior to 2002 where all the data on the site was lost. It 
never repeated under the new owners.

There is a new issue with many providers of email servers, in that many 
large sites will block a sender by IP address, and a hosting service's 
shared server may not be able to help getting blocked, because all it 
takes is one spammer signing up for the hosting service to get everyone 
on the IP tarnished and blocked.  This DID happen to me with 
phpwebhosting.com through no fault of theirs. They have a workaround 
they say will work, but rather than implement it I took the easier route 
and redirected my email through comcast.net instead of phpwebhosting.com.

Bill

On 2/20/2014 10:59 AM, Greg Helledy wrote:
> We have hosted our IMAP email and webpage in-house many years without 
> a problem, but that means these disappear when the power to the 
> building goes out.  The recent ice storm took the company off the 
> internet for nearly 5 days, which the owners have decided is 
> unacceptable and they're willing to pay to guarantee that never 
> happens again.
>
> The web page is a very simple html information sheet, nothing 
> interactive.  If that matters, it's designed/updated with Wordpress.  
> We would have about 20 email boxes.  We'd also be interested in 
> calendaring.
>
> If anyone has any recommendations, positive or negative, about 
> providers, please send them my way.  Realistically, name recognition 
> will be a factor, because of the "big = reliable" assumption.
>
> Thanks,

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