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Any recommendations for hosted Exchange?
My company has about 300 users and we're looking to go from having Microsoft Exchange internally to having it hosted for us. We need someone who will be reliable and response if there are problems.
I'd like to ask if anyone can recommend a good hosting company, and just as importantly, warn about bad ones.
I'd like to ask if anyone can recommend a good hosting company, and just as importantly, warn about bad ones.
Office 365. Prices are very hard to beat and its hosted directly by MSFT.
They also a free migration service up until March 2015 I believe. The issue with that is its just the migration, no removing old Exchange servers or anything like that.
They also a free migration service up until March 2015 I believe. The issue with that is its just the migration, no removing old Exchange servers or anything like that.
+1 Adam.
Office365. You can get on Exchange Online Plan 1 for $4 per user/month. That gives you a 50GB mailbox.
If you need an unlimited mailbox and extra items such as Litigation Hold or eDiscovery it is $8 per user/month.
I start many companies on the $4 plan.
Why go for the clones when you can have the original instead? Please Microsoft pushes all the new features to Office 365 well before any other Exchange hosted provider get them.
Office365. You can get on Exchange Online Plan 1 for $4 per user/month. That gives you a 50GB mailbox.
If you need an unlimited mailbox and extra items such as Litigation Hold or eDiscovery it is $8 per user/month.
I start many companies on the $4 plan.
Why go for the clones when you can have the original instead? Please Microsoft pushes all the new features to Office 365 well before any other Exchange hosted provider get them.
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If the price/value isn't a factor, is there a host who'd provide better or more reliable service than Microsoft with Office365?
In short, no, or at least I don't know of one.
When you talk about Hosted Exchange and Office 365 note that this is really an apples to oranges comparison. Office 365 is an all encompassing platform, whereas Hosted Exchange is primarily just that Exchange. That said and even if we are stripping Office 365 down to just it's Online Exchange offering...I don't know of a more stable Hosted provider of Exchange than Microsoft. Like I noted above there are companies like Intermedia or Sherweb (two of the biggest players in the game), that do guarantee a better up-time 99.999% opposed to MSFT of 99.9% but that is relative to how much "planned" downtime each company has and in my experience the hosted guys all together seem to deliver a slower product which requires more downtime in aggregate to deliver.
When you talk about Hosted Exchange and Office 365 note that this is really an apples to oranges comparison. Office 365 is an all encompassing platform, whereas Hosted Exchange is primarily just that Exchange. That said and even if we are stripping Office 365 down to just it's Online Exchange offering...I don't know of a more stable Hosted provider of Exchange than Microsoft. Like I noted above there are companies like Intermedia or Sherweb (two of the biggest players in the game), that do guarantee a better up-time 99.999% opposed to MSFT of 99.9% but that is relative to how much "planned" downtime each company has and in my experience the hosted guys all together seem to deliver a slower product which requires more downtime in aggregate to deliver.
It's a good idea, especially with as many mailboxes as you have, to take a look at several services. I know a network admin who works at a college that is using Office 365 to host their Exchange stuff, and she says it works great. Given that they're using it for all their students and faculty, I'd say that's probably a good solution to look at also.