What are the benefits of a small business hosting their own email server?
Question: What are good reasons for a small company to not use free web mail services like google or yahoo mail.
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By hosting your own server you have complete control of everything. Companies I worked with chose to do this so they knew what was going on with the server at all times – they didn’t have to worry about a fire, explosion, theft, etc. I’ve worked with a hosting company that had an explosion in their server room – and our server was down for over a week. Usually, something like this is the reason a business will decide to host their own server.
I strongly recommend against doing this if you’re a small business. If you set up your hosted server correctly, you can have back-ups and redundancy plans without having to invest in purchasing the email server, software, IT personnel, etc.
Brianna
The Envision Agency, Small Business Marketing
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you would need a server – $$$
you need the email software – server edition – $$$
probably need a T-1 line ($500-900 a month)
you would need an IT person capable of taking of the server and software (figure $50,000 or more salary plus benefits)
how many people are you talking about? – less than 100 and it probably makes no sense