Comments on: Hosted Exchange Problems

By: Stanford

Stanford — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 04:06:32 +0000

AppRiver looks great. Do you know if they will work for one user only?

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 17:27:30 +0000

Feel free to take a look at our services… we can support up to 15GB but offer sizes from 500MB to 3GB at $9.99 per month and up. Don’t get lost in the rat race that’s going on with exchange hosting companies, set up trial accounts, test out the service test out the support… see what you like. There’s no reason with exchange you can’t go over 2GB unless the admins are downright lazy and haven’t installed the patches causing issues on exchange 2007 with outlook 2007;. they’ve been fixed and we’ve all moved past those issues here. Dedicateds are crazy if you only have a couple users, even 20 users you should only be paying $200 a month, especially if the larger storage requirements are only with a few users.

By: David

David — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:30:25 +0000

hmm, the url is apparently my Nmae. The co is Appriver – found them off Microsoft’s website of providers

By: David

David — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:29:38 +0000

I’m in the same situation, just found these guys and they seem promising

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 21:03:22 +0000

Any experienced Exchange administrator is going to want to have a limit on mailbox size. It just makes good sense – especially being a hosted provider. Say your account (or someone else’s) gets a virus that starts propogating mail to the mailbox – it could lock up an entire server if there isn’t a “hard limit”.

One thing is that Exchange does offer a warning before the mailbox gets full. There are also huge costs in reliably backing up and storing Exchange data. It really depends on your needs – for some people the Google model works, other want the features that Exchange offers – the sharing, Outlook interface and seamless inegration with BlackBerry and Windows Mobile. It’s a premium service but there are some downsides including cost and mailbox limits.

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 07:06:46 +0000

Some people recommend a Google host solution. Does Google have an exchange host or are you suggesting gmail/pop service?

Some have asked why bother with exchange. In my case I need exchange to get real time calendar, contacts and email on blackberry, laptop and desktop computers. I dont have time to link & sync every couple hours. Hosted exchange is one solution that allows access to the same up-to-date information no matter what computer/phone I am using. If anyone has suggestions for another tool that works as seamlessly as hosted exchange with blackberry please let me know.

By: Nate Duehr

Nate Duehr — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 07:17:14 +0000

Why not get away from the Exchange limitations altogether and go with a hosted IMAP server? Outlook supports IMAP (of course) albeit slightly clunkily, and of course there is always T-Bird…

A hosted IMAP server has virtually no limitations on drive space, and you can just leave as much as you like on the server in folders. Good providers will also provide a way to do server-side message filtering directly into those folders, so you don’t have to sync anything but the Inbox to mobile devices, for example.

By: Florian Heiber

Florian Heiber — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 17:13:53 +0000

Isn’t the limit for the pst files in the 2007 version at 4 gigs? I thought so… I used 1&1 for about 2 years. After a while i noticed that I won’t become lucky and switched to another local hoster here in Germany.

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 11:19:52 +0000

I thought with Office 2003 that they switched to unicode for PST files thus raising the 2 GB limit to 20 GB.

By: Armando Madero

Armando Madero — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 01:37:20 +0000

You can set up exchange to go beyond 2g as long as you keep your email on the server. Now if you bring it down to a pst on your personal computer then you are limited to 2g. All you have to do then is set up your auto archive and it will clean up your pst. You still have visibility of your email in an archived folder.

By: Kenneth Holley

Kenneth Holley — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 16:12:58 +0000

Chris,

I have 23 SMB clients in the Washington, DC area … I’ve moved all of them to a hosted Exchange solution. The Exchange host that I use is AppRiver. AppRiver costs just a few dollars a month per account, however the best part is that they have no limits … many of my clients have .pst files weighing in at over 4GB each … no problem with AppRiver.

Kenneth

By: Tyler Cooper

Tyler Cooper — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 15:23:15 +0000

Have you tried Kerio? It’s an exchange replacement, it’s $399 for 5 users I believe. The best part is that Kerio really supports mac users and outlook/exchange users! The mobile integration w/ Windows Mobile 6 is really great. Kerio can even wipe your phone if you lose it and it is connected to the server!

By: Alon Cohen

Alon Cohen — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 12:56:39 +0000

It sounds like you either fell on a new sales rep, or you were chatting with a company that does not offer all the options that Hosted Exchange has.

With Exchange 2007, you can have mailboxes upto 15GB. Now remember that most Exchange Hosting Companies charge by the mailbox. Some companies (ours included) will allow you to aggregate disk space amoung users in the same company/domain. So if you have 2 users that need around 2GB each, you can get 2 of our Executive 3000 plans (3000MB per mailbox). This way as long as your total disk space is under 6000MB, you will be OK. You can go upto 15GB per mialbox.

Some more on the pricing at http://www.123together.com/sehp/Exchange_Hosting_2003_Server.xhtml.

That said, some companies (ours excluded) also charge for bandwidth, so make sure you check that as well.

By: Edgardo

Edgardo — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 12:54:47 +0000

Chris,

Check out.
http://www.webmail.us/email-hosting/features

Might be what you are looking for

Edgardo

By: Markus Diersbock

Markus Diersbock — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 07:27:55 +0000

> No, wait – that’s not what it means. You don’t have
> to sacrifice old emails at all.

@GregGughes, why do you write the above and then go on to describe exactly what I said in my post?