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Email in house or out source?

Currently, our email is hosted by our web site host. Our IT company thinks it would be best to host it in house on a new Exchange server. The main reason given is viruses. Is this the best idea? Is this necessary? We are a not for profit, so the best, cheapest way is the way we'd like to go... Thanks in advance!

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My company is also a non-profit, so budget is almost always the deciding factor. We also had the option to outsource our mail to the same company that's hositng our website for a VERY good price. It was extremely tempting for me, as I had just gone through a TON of email related issues, and I was fed up with email at that point. However, the only reason I opted to keep it in house is the fact that the only way I learn new things is through hands on....basically by having things break and hope I can fix it within a reasonable amount of time.

By keeping it in-house, you have TONS more control over it. Often, (from my experience) companies that host ask that you give them around a day or two (one company even told us up to a week) after submitting changes to them when the changes would be implemented. Same goes for other issues as well, espeically if your having any DNS or IP problems that require a change to be made for email.

Besides budget (which is a big factor), it basically boils down to whether or not you want full control over your system including when changes will be made, but that also means that you have to deal with the email headaches that go along with it....which can be quite daunting sometimes. Good luck.

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