Re: 4smartphone.net - Hosted Exchange mail server
While your post promotes 4Smartphone.net, it should be pointed out that with the Exchange-2007 rollout, they have increased pricing substantially while at the same time slashing storage space limits from 2 gigs (for the Pro plan) to 1 gig. At $14 per month there's a $4 increase (40%) over previous pricing with 50% of the storage. They asked me to pay the balance of the increase, pro-rated, for the remaining 6 months of my contract. When I complained they offered to not charge me more, but shorten the time I had left on my pre-paid service; a creative way of 'charging me more'... They charged me a hefty cancellation fee when I opted not to participate in their new pricing plan. This was their explanation: 4SmartPhone has decided to move to the Exchange 2007 architecture and equipment for many reasons, and one of the most important was because we could go to a passive-active cluster server configuration in order to provide seamless failover when a cluster node is unavailable or is taken offline for maintenance. This architecture while very reliable does comes at a price. Our Microsoft Exchange 2003 architecture did not have that robustness. As for the $9.95 My Hosted Solution price we cannot match it, you get what you pay for... Fortunately, I found another company that has worked out flawlessly for the past few months. IT-Solutions-Now ( http://www.myhostedsolution.com/ ) . Their Hosted Exchange 2007 service is $9.95 per month, with >>>unlimited<<< storage space, and contractually it's month-to-month with no fee to cancel as with 4Smartphone.
Not sure what they were referring to by 'you get what you pay for'. So far, after 3 months, I'm getting exactly the same service, at $60 less per year, with unlimited storage.
4Smartphone was a great service when they were the only-kid-on-the-block. They aren't any longer, and have lost their competetive edge...
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Originally Posted by windows
And I can now advise guys that 4smartphone now have Exchange 2007 servers available which offer: - HTML email support for WM6
- Server search and mail retrieve for WM6
- Remote machine wipe via OWA
- Much much more
I've been lucky enough to be able to migrate to the new system to test it out and it works superbly.
So if you are a 4SP customer and use WM6 it may well be worth you contacting them about migrating over to Exchange 2007...
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