Hi Manoj, On 02/01/18 09:47, Manoj C Menon via luv-main wrote:
A server hosted on Amazon EC2 can cost significantly lesser than the $1500 you've arrived at.
Okay.
For example, around 4 servers I manage costs us around ~350AU$ a year. (You can use this page to estimate the cost. http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html)
The calculator seems to need Firefox for me, it's not loading properly in Palemoon.
In addition to that Amazon now has introduced a new product called Lightsail for requirements such as yours. (See https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/pricing/)
The storage limits/options with lightsail seem to be an issue, some of the user's Maildir folders are quite excessive as too many people send/receive very large attachments and keep them in folders long term. There is currently close to 200GB of data storage used in the Maildir folders. So, unless the folders can be significantly culled, 80GB wouldn't be enough.
Then there is of-course Linode, Digital Ocean, Vultr ...
Yes, I still contend that full self-hosting is likely to be the best option, aside from the "push everything to the cloud" mantra/talk that some people feel greatly obliged to follow at any cost. Thanks A.