[118245] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DreamHost admin contacts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Shane Ronan)
Thu Oct 15 23:08:06 2009
From: Shane Ronan <sronan@fattoc.com>
In-Reply-To: <1404447E820C6C4B8C32C28EEDF4362212EC42287E@EXVMBX020-11.exch020.serverdata.net>
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:07:06 -0400
To: Jeff Saxe <jsaxe@briworks.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Agreed -1 for GroupSpark (AKA 123together)
On Oct 13, 2009, at 4:48 PM, Jeff Saxe wrote:
>> Barring that, what recommendations might the NANOG community have for
>> an extremely rock-solid e-mail hosting company? I realize that may
>> mean self-promotion, but hey, bring it on.
>
> Some people, when they say "email hosting company", inherently mean
> "hosting specifically of Microsoft Exchange email, contacts, and
> calendar". If that's what you're after, then I would recommend my
> employer's chosen hosted Exchange partner, Intermedia <http://www.intermedia.net
> >. They maintain server farms of Exchange clusters, and they have a
> very good customer portal (both at the administrator-of-the-site
> level and the individual end user). They also have an FTP-up-a-PST-
> file-and-merge-it-into-a-mailbox function that makes the initial
> migration from some other Exchange repository faster and more
> parallelizable than without it. We are extremely pleased, and we
> have basically stopped hosting Exchange for our own customers on our
> own in-house hardware, just using Intermedia as a branded service.
>
> Depending on your requirements (audit copy of every single email and
> and out, mandatory retention periods, BlackBerry connectivity,
> etc.), they probably can do anything you're asking for. Their uptime
> has been stellar except for one morning of about 3 to 4 hours, when
> a major MAN cable was busted around Manhattan somewhere and
> disconnected their datacenter. Other than that, we have not had the
> long, painful, tension-filled, customer-angering outage periods that
> we used to have with another provider which shall not be named. (OK,
> it will: GroupSpark. Stay far away from them.)
>
> -- Jeff Saxe
> Network Engineer, Blue Ridge InternetWorks
> Charlottesville, VA
> www.briworks.com
>
