Re: Email and Web Hosting

[Alain Hebert <ahebert () pubnix net>]

    Or Virtualmin, in a docker instance per Customer...  (If you are in 
the virtualization business)

    I think Bryan just don't want to deal with emails since ("support 
costs" + "headaches") > "income" at his volume.

    So better find a bulk service IMHO...

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On 7/6/21 4:05 PM, Travis Garrison wrote:
> Why not migrate them to a cpanel instance?
>
> Thanks
>
> Travis
>
> *From:* NANOG <nanog-bounces+tgarrison=netviscom.com () nanog org> *On 
> Behalf Of *Steve Saner
> *Sent:* Tuesday, July 6, 2021 2:27 PM
> *To:* Bryan Fields <Bryan () bryanfields net>
> *Cc:* nanog () nanog org
> *Subject:* Re: Email and Web Hosting
>
> 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 
> <mailto: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 <http://bryanfields.net>
>
>
> --
>
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