Email and Web Hosting
Alain Hebert
ahebert at pubnix.net
Tue Jul 6 20:32:18 UTC 2021
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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Alain Hebert ahebert at pubnix.net
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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 at nanog.org> *On
> Behalf Of *Steve Saner
> *Sent:* Tuesday, July 6, 2021 2:27 PM
> *To:* Bryan Fields <Bryan at bryanfields.net>
> *Cc:* nanog at 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 at bryanfields.net
> <mailto:Bryan at 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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