Hi Guys/Gals,

As I understand it, if you want to host an AWS EC2 server, you need to
pay a "region" price for access to a region; it is my belief that it
costs roughly $1500 per month, not sure if that is already in AUD or not.

Then, you pay per hour for the running machine and you pay again (even
if only a little) for storage.

To me, self-hosting a mail server makes much more sense; so, why would
it make sense to set one up as an AWS EC2 instance?  Have I got the
figures wrong?  Is that region charge an every month "once off" and then
you can have as many servers there as you like?  Even if you pay for
every server by the hour plus other costs?

I know they [AWS] have an offer of 1 year free, but that translates to
me as a fremium product; you'll pay through the nose after 12 months if
you continue to require the service.

The only other alternative to self hosting is a VPS, then you are RAM,
CPU and storage limited, that is, unless you really pay for a beefed up
server, and, of course, that will cost you dearly.

A cheap self hosted server on a good connection should suffice for email
better than any other option.  I've ran a mail server on a DSL
connection for many years now, it has been improved by an HFC NBN
connection for me, but it worked okay on DSL even if it wasn't ideal.

There is one other option, but I really loath that choice.  That is to
use Google Apps or some other hosted service, just for email -- the only
advantage I see is the level of storage available.  But it comes at a
cost of not being able to fully manage the server and the logs and
almost everything else that you have with a hosted service; that is, you
lose an awful lot of control.  And then, if you increase user mailboxes,
your costs go up every time.

I'm talking about using one or more domain names for email services and
not using LookOut (outlook.com), Gmail or any other hosted email.

What am I missing?  Why do people choose hosted services with all the
costs and the negatives?  It makes no sense to me, but one client is
agitating to remove their very, very low cost server that I mange on
their behalf.

Your thoughts?

Thanks and Kind Regards
AndrewM



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