nheather
Outstanding Member
I currently have a hosting service with Dataflame.
On paper it is very good value - think it is about £50 per year - I'm on a legacy deal from years ago which provides lots of extra goodies that you would have to pay more for now.
But I don't use any - to be honest the only things I really care about are
1) Hosting my domain
2) eMail services
So my emails are like <anything>@<my-domain>
I don't have a huge number of email accounts, just family use and a few duplicates - probably around 10 in all. And they are only for personal use so not high capacity
Now the thing is, Dataflame is beginning to piss me off. The main problem is that their mail server IPs often build up a poor MTA reputation and occasionally get blacklisted - when this hits a certain threshold then my emails get rejected by some recipients.
Now I appreciate that this is down to the herberts that use the shared mail server IP but it happens far to frequently and Dataflame are poor at monitoring and fixing the problem themselves. Getting fed up of have to raise a ticket on a monthly basis, often have to explain to the so-called support person what the problem is and what they need to do to fix it.
A few questions then
1 - can anyone recommend any alternative email services - they can be more expensive but not excessively so
2 - how is the transfer of my domain done
3 - what sort of downtime can I expect between moving between hosting companies
BTW - if anyone is looking at Dataflame I would not recommend them.
Cheers,
Nigel
On paper it is very good value - think it is about £50 per year - I'm on a legacy deal from years ago which provides lots of extra goodies that you would have to pay more for now.
But I don't use any - to be honest the only things I really care about are
1) Hosting my domain
2) eMail services
So my emails are like <anything>@<my-domain>
I don't have a huge number of email accounts, just family use and a few duplicates - probably around 10 in all. And they are only for personal use so not high capacity
Now the thing is, Dataflame is beginning to piss me off. The main problem is that their mail server IPs often build up a poor MTA reputation and occasionally get blacklisted - when this hits a certain threshold then my emails get rejected by some recipients.
Now I appreciate that this is down to the herberts that use the shared mail server IP but it happens far to frequently and Dataflame are poor at monitoring and fixing the problem themselves. Getting fed up of have to raise a ticket on a monthly basis, often have to explain to the so-called support person what the problem is and what they need to do to fix it.
A few questions then
1 - can anyone recommend any alternative email services - they can be more expensive but not excessively so
2 - how is the transfer of my domain done
3 - what sort of downtime can I expect between moving between hosting companies
BTW - if anyone is looking at Dataflame I would not recommend them.
Cheers,
Nigel