Re: Email and Web Hosting

[Steve Saner <ssaner () ideatek com>]

The current platform is a custom collection of open source software, smtp,
imap, pop, webmail. Web hosting is a basic LAMP stack all php 5.2 or
greater. There is no interest in growing these services.


On Tue, Jul 6, 2021 at 11:02 AM Bryan Fields <Bryan () bryanfields net> wrote:

> On 7/6/21 10:41 AM, Steve Saner wrote:
> > I hope this isn't too far off topic for this list.
> >
> > We acquired a small ISP a couple years ago that has its roots in the
> "local
> > ISPs" of the 90s. This ISP is still hosting email and web services for
> > customers both on company domains as well as customer domains. There is
> > some decent revenue coming from these services, but cost of maintenance
> is
> > becoming a challenge. We are looking at migrating to another platform or
> > completely discontinuing those services.
>
> Question, what platform(s) are you running now?  What must you provide for
> email, SMTP, IMAP, webmail, groupware, etc?  Do you have any intention of
> growing this?
>
> For the websites, what do they need?  Are you running any old PHP 3/4
> stuff?
> You can setup a control panel, but if you're not running one now, and
> you're
> not going to expand it, why not just cap it until it becomes unprofitable?
>
> I'm a proponent of hosting my own email, it's not that hard and any ISP
> should
> be able to do it.
>
> --
> Bryan Fields
>
> 727-409-1194 - Voice
> http://bryanfields.net


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