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On Sat, 13 Mar 2004, Michel Py wrote: > <me puts the devil's advocate suit on> > $50 is a lot of money; I currently send email from my aDSL address > because a) my ISP's smarthost sucks b) historically their SMTP hosts > have been blacklisted more than mine c) even if they did not suck (which > has improved a lot recently, actually) they still won't accept large > attachments or mailing-list traffic. > I pay $36/mo for my aDSL. $50 _more_ sounds a lot. > </me puts the devil's advocate suit on> I checked with our hosting dept. and we won't sell 1U traffic policed colo quite that cheap. Close to it, but not $50/month. And I agree, for most people spending an extra $50/month just to be able to send email (though I imagine they'd also do some personal web hosting and maybe other things as long as the machine was there), not to mention the expense of buying a 1U server and having to maintain it remotely isn't going to fly. You'd have to be a pretty hard core netgeek and have the disposible income ($600/year + the server...I can think of lots of better ways to spend that) to consider that a good solution...at which point why not just pay a bit extra to your ISP (or another ISP) and get a static IP with reverse DNS, which I would think would get you excluded from most reasonable DNSBLs. For most people it'd probably make much more sense to find a provider that offers some form of SMTP relay service. It'd probably be cheaper/month, and they wouldn't have the trouble and expense of providing/maintaining a colo server. > Besides, although this list is definitely the right place to find people > that would operate a personal SMTP relay in a colo just by the virtue > that it's the geeky thing to do, what does it change in the big scheme I'd imagine you could even find a few friends and share the cost/utility of the server such that it only cost each person a few dollars/month...but then someone's got to pay the bills, collect money, harass the people who don't pay their share, etc. > of things? All these small business customers (20 persons) that I have > that use a sub-$100 "business" DSL and M$ Small Business Server + > Exchange are not going to go for it, because the cost then will suddenly > become $50 plus the 1U server plus my time plus maintaining it. What if the cost were only $10/month and they didn't have to maintain anything other than a set of usernames/passwds (SMTP Auth) or perhaps a list of their own IPs (relaying based on IP)? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Lewis *[email protected]*| I route Senior Network Engineer | therefore you are Atlantic Net | _________ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_________
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