beq
05-26-2007, 08:37 PM
I had a thread on this topic elsewhere, and wanted to also post here to get more info:
I'm looking for hosted Exchange 2007 accounts for my family (5 users). They like using Exchange ActiveSync with push, and sharing information via the familiar Outlook interface. The new unified messaging features are also interesting. Being for personal use, I prefer low cost and large storage capacity (with generous message size limit) in addition to reliability and speed.
We've been largely satisfied with our 1and1 (http://order.1and1.com/xml/order/MailExchange) hosted Exchange 2003 accounts ($6.99/month for 1GB with ActiveSync), except that one family member really needs more storage. For this member, 1GB is usually only enough to keep the last 3 weeks of messages!
Unfortunately for our accounts, 1and1:
- does not aggregate storage (to allocate among high/low volume users)
- does not allow purchase of extra storage beyond 1GB
- could not tell me of any plans to upgrade to Exchange 2007 or more storage
If someone knows differently, please enlighten me...
P.S. 4SmartPhone (http://www.4smartphone.net/ServicePlans.aspx) is another similarly-priced provider often mentioned on Windows Mobile enthusiast sites.
Has anyone had experience with a company called IT Solutions Now (http://www.itsolutionsnow.com/) (used to be Netplexity (https://solutionfinder.microsoft.com/SDK/Solutions/SolutionDetailsView.aspx?solutionid=fb8295f2a183430394f6455847f83980))?
They own the URLs:
- www.exchangemailhosting.com
- www.exchange2007hosting.net
When I search for "exchange 2007 hosting" or "hosted exchange 2007" via Google, Yahoo, MS Live, etc, they usually turn up within the top 5 site results (in fact Google lists them as THE top result). But I haven't found any discussion on this provider.
For $9.95/month, IT Solutions Now offers hosted Exchange 2007 (http://www.exchangemailhosting.com/exchange/plans/) accounts with unlimited mailbox size, 1GB for Public Folders, ActiveSync, Antigen and Symantec AV (?), Outlook 2007, 24x7 live tech support, some kind of SLA (?), etc. They're collocated (http://www.exchangemailhosting.com/exchange/infrastructure/) in Peak 10 data centers.
The unlimited storage sounds almost too good to be true. Can they still provide reliable service?
My next choice would be SherWeb (http://www.sherweb.com/en-usd/exchange.html), which I've heard good things about. For $8.95/month they currently offer hosted Exchange 2003 accounts with 1.25GB mailbox, ActiveSync, Outlook 2007, 200MB SharePoint portal for the group, 99.9% application SLA, 30-day money back, etc.
But a SherWeb rep told me that they will upgrade to Exchange 2007 "within the next months" along with 3GB mailbox size, for the same price.
I'm looking for hosted Exchange 2007 accounts for my family (5 users). They like using Exchange ActiveSync with push, and sharing information via the familiar Outlook interface. The new unified messaging features are also interesting. Being for personal use, I prefer low cost and large storage capacity (with generous message size limit) in addition to reliability and speed.
We've been largely satisfied with our 1and1 (http://order.1and1.com/xml/order/MailExchange) hosted Exchange 2003 accounts ($6.99/month for 1GB with ActiveSync), except that one family member really needs more storage. For this member, 1GB is usually only enough to keep the last 3 weeks of messages!
Unfortunately for our accounts, 1and1:
- does not aggregate storage (to allocate among high/low volume users)
- does not allow purchase of extra storage beyond 1GB
- could not tell me of any plans to upgrade to Exchange 2007 or more storage
If someone knows differently, please enlighten me...
P.S. 4SmartPhone (http://www.4smartphone.net/ServicePlans.aspx) is another similarly-priced provider often mentioned on Windows Mobile enthusiast sites.
Has anyone had experience with a company called IT Solutions Now (http://www.itsolutionsnow.com/) (used to be Netplexity (https://solutionfinder.microsoft.com/SDK/Solutions/SolutionDetailsView.aspx?solutionid=fb8295f2a183430394f6455847f83980))?
They own the URLs:
- www.exchangemailhosting.com
- www.exchange2007hosting.net
When I search for "exchange 2007 hosting" or "hosted exchange 2007" via Google, Yahoo, MS Live, etc, they usually turn up within the top 5 site results (in fact Google lists them as THE top result). But I haven't found any discussion on this provider.
For $9.95/month, IT Solutions Now offers hosted Exchange 2007 (http://www.exchangemailhosting.com/exchange/plans/) accounts with unlimited mailbox size, 1GB for Public Folders, ActiveSync, Antigen and Symantec AV (?), Outlook 2007, 24x7 live tech support, some kind of SLA (?), etc. They're collocated (http://www.exchangemailhosting.com/exchange/infrastructure/) in Peak 10 data centers.
The unlimited storage sounds almost too good to be true. Can they still provide reliable service?
My next choice would be SherWeb (http://www.sherweb.com/en-usd/exchange.html), which I've heard good things about. For $8.95/month they currently offer hosted Exchange 2003 accounts with 1.25GB mailbox, ActiveSync, Outlook 2007, 200MB SharePoint portal for the group, 99.9% application SLA, 30-day money back, etc.
But a SherWeb rep told me that they will upgrade to Exchange 2007 "within the next months" along with 3GB mailbox size, for the same price.