New Bandwidth Allowances

[Rik]

Dream on.

[mouthrush]

http://www.claranetgamers.co.uk/
claranet say they impose the 10GB limit on 8am to 6pm to "keep business users happy" and they are unrestricted outside that period.

That would suggest that IDnet's limit on 9am-6pm is consistent with a large business user base; but that the extension of the peak period from 6pm to midnight has more to do with its domestic customers. That would be the peak period for domestic users to stream content. They appear to want to discourage heavy streaming usage by domestic customers because of the impact it would have on domestic non-streamers.

Are the evenings possibly restricted for their telephone subscribers?

[Rik]

In what sense?

[t22design]

Thanks Rik. I just had a look on 1&1's website but I could not see any product at all with 35+ mailboxes. Their domains give 5. They have a Microsoft Exchange offering for £5 per user per month, which would work out at £2100 per year

Fortunately, due to IDnet's wonderful service I can do it all here for £25 per month and I even get broadband included :-)

I'm not sure where you are looking but 1&1's starter hosting package includes 1000 email accounts for £2.50 pm, but you would need to add a domain to that.

I use 1&1 for my email hosting, and I've been happy with them, but I know plenty of people who haven't.

[armadillo]

I'm not sure where you are looking but 1&1's starter hosting package includes 1000 email accounts for £2.50 pm, but you would need to add a domain to that.

I use 1&1 for my email hosting, and I've been happy with them, but I know plenty of people who haven't.

Thank you for that. I was looking under "email solutions" on their main page as it seemed a natural place to look for email solutions  It never occurred to me to look for email solutions under web hosting. Now I have and it is quite a surprise that web hosting offers email addresses for roughly one hundredth of the cost per address that "email solutions" does.

A few things were not clear to me, looking at their description of the 1000 email addresses:

1) Can you send email from those addresses as well as receive it?
2) Can you choose NOT to have a catchall address?
3) Can you turn off all spam filtering?

Worth bearing in mind should, perish the thought, IDnet ever stop providing its excellent (for my needs) email service.

[t22design]

I only have experience of the package I am on, but for me it's 'yes' to all three questions.
If you want any more information or to discuss it further send me a PM so we don't clog the forum up.

[pctech]

This is the cheapest mail package 1and1 do http://order.1and1.co.uk/MailInstantMail?__lf=Static

[andrue]

Great minds think alike, registering my own domain was the best thing I did and have a terrific mail host.

Same here. It's called a Fit-PC2 and it sits in my study 

[pctech]

I pay 89p per month for my mail hosting, the electricity to run a machine would cost me more than that.

[andrue]

I pay 89p per month for my mail hosting, the electricity to run a machine would cost me more than that.

My server consumes 8w maximum. Given I don't receive much email it's probably idle most of time which is apparently 6w. That's approx 4.5kwh a month which is probably about the same cost

http://www.fit-pc.com/web/fit-pc/fit-pc2i-specifications/

But my main reason for wanting a home server is the control. I have a non-standard addressing system and I don't think all hosting systems would support it. Basically I need to be able to set up a wildcard alias so that everything where the address matches a template goes into a specific mailbox and anything that doesn't match is thrown away.

[armadillo]

I only have experience of the package I am on, but for me it's 'yes' to all three questions.
If you want any more information or to discuss it further send me a PM so we don't clog the forum up.

Thank you. That is plenty info for now.

Changing email host is a hassle. So I would only take a separate email service if something happened to render IDnet email inoperative, such as IDnet selling up or change of terms needing a shift to a different ISP. For now, IDnet meets all my email and broadband needs at a price I am happy with.

[pctech]

My server consumes 8w maximum. Given I don't receive much email it's probably idle most of time which is apparently 6w. That's approx 4.5kwh a month which is probably about the same cost

http://www.fit-pc.com/web/fit-pc/fit-pc2i-specifications/

But my main reason for wanting a home server is the control. I have a non-standard addressing system and I don't think all hosting systems would support it. Basically I need to be able to set up a wildcard alias so that everything where the address matches a template goes into a specific mailbox and anything that doesn't match is thrown away.

Ah an interesting little device there.

I'm waiting, like a lot of people on here are, to be able to get my hands on a Respberry Pi.

I may look at turning that into a small mail server but the main reason I'm reluctant to put a mail server on the end of my ADSL connection is of course, the BT factor.

Specificially because I use my domain address for job applications etc so although most mail servers will try for up to 72 hours I wouldn't want any potential employer to get the message that their mail could not be delivered because my connection was because the wrong cable was unplugged at the exchange.

Far better for the mail to set on a server somewhere connected to a multi-homed fibre backbone.

[Technical Ben]

I would guess that's right! Could you not have a home server with a fallback to a paid one? Is there a service that you only pay for if you use? Oh, a gap in the market for that product? Emergency Email Servers R' Us!

[andrue]

I may look at turning that into a small mail server but the main reason I'm reluctant to put a mail server on the end of my ADSL connection is of course, the BT factor.

I'll be interested to see how that pans out. I was with Be for six years and I don't think I ever had an outage. One or two weeks of questionable speed (by their standards) but for the purposes of email it was fine.

I think I was running an email server when I was with Nildram in the very early days on IPStream but can't really remember. Anyway WBC is a different ballgame so it'll be interesting. I hope your fears prove unfounded though because the hour it took to switch me over to FTTC was the longest I can remember not having a connection.

In any case I'm not so dependant on email at the moment. It's mostly just order confirmations from Amazon and the occasional personal mail so 100% uptime isn't essential