email/colo -- amazing response... thanks...

[pardsbane at offthehill.org (Joshua Pollak)]

Dreamhost.com has great service and a reasonable price. They offer IMAP 
email services. Unfortunately, they are not an ISP, so that might be a 
pain for you. I think Dreamhost offers everything from virtual servers 
all the way up to CoLo. I don't know what your budget will be, but it 
might be an option.


On Mar 2, 2004, at 2:21 AM, steve at horne.homelinux.net wrote:

>
>
> So what is it -- 20 min, and a half dozen + responses -- ?
>
> A little more info -- we're not in a mode to hire anyone, for a year 
> or so.
> I'm the most knowledgeable person RE networks/admin, and I'll be 150% 
> time doing
> physics/electronics.
>
>
> Chris Devers <cdevers at pobox.com>
> writes...
>> Locally, we'd use a web-based or POP interface (Outlook Express? <gag 
>> cough>)
>
> "You are early enough in the process not to make that mistake: go with
> IMAP, not POP. It lets you keep your folders and (sometimes) 
> configuration
> (e.g. address books, etc) on the mail server, so that, for example, 
> people
> can check mail from work & home and have the same view of everything
> either way."
>
> What's IMAP?  Sorry, no clue.
>
> You suggest yahoo -- that's problably a bit too barebones.
>
> "A good compromise might be a company that lets you have a virtual 
> Linux
> server on their system. You get to control what goes on with your 
> system,"
> This looks palatable -- I'll start googling...
>
>
> Thanks all ...
>
> 				Steve
>
>
>
>
>
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