Re: Email and Web Hosting

[Martin Hannigan <hannigan () gmail com>]

Sounds like you already know what the decision is. If you can justify it,
no need to second guess.

If my ISP stopped providing email services I wouldn’t even know. [ may even
check if i get bored ]

Hope that helps.

YMMV,

-M<


On Tue, Jul 6, 2021 at 5:22 PM Steve Saner <ssaner () ideatek com> wrote:

> The issue is not an understanding of how to run the system. The issue is
> that it isn't our core business and we want to minimize/eliminate the money
> and time needed to maintain the infrastructure and support the services.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 6, 2021 at 3:54 PM Bryan Fields <Bryan () bryanfields net> wrote:
>
> > On 7/6/21 3:26 PM, Steve Saner wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > Ok, so this really doesn't say much in terms of software in use.  Almost
> > all
> > SMTP/IMAP/POP servers are open source, and could be anything from
> > sendmail 8
> > to postfix.  If you're capping it, just run what's in place and learn it,
> > I'd
> > think most people in networking have configured apache once or twice
> > before.
> >
> > --
> > Bryan Fields
> >
> > 727-409-1194 - Voice
> > http://bryanfields.net
>
>
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