[General Topics] drmorley:
Hi, I thought I'd share a bit about my setup.

About my Hardware/Setup:

My servers are a pair of Dell 2950 PowerEdge server with 2Ghz Xeon Dual Core processors and 8GB of RAM. They've got about 500GB of storage in a RAID5 array with a spare hot swap drive just in case a drive starts acting up. I can pull it out and enable the spare within a hour ensure the data survives. A full backup is done daily and once a week the backup file gets offloaded to a remote datacenter just as a precaution. I also have backup MX servers that will archive 1GB of mail for up to 14 days in the event of a major outage. The servers themselves are colocated in a datacenter in Chicago where I live. I purchase colo space from SteadFast Networks which is located in an Equinix datacenter. The servers are hooked into a 100MB connection so bandwidth is not an issue.

I'm sorry, but I do not offer any SharePoint services or public folders. I didn't think I had the time or resources to adequately offer it so I chose not to offer it.

I have an economy plan for $3/month (paid yearly) that includes:

• 200MB Storage

• 10 aliases (ability to use your own domain)

• Outlook Anywhere, Activesync (Direct Push for Windows Mobile Devices), OWA

• POP3 & IMAP Access

• Antivirus Scanning (inbound & outbound) - Provided by Forefront Security for Exchange

• Entourage support for Macs

• iPhone Support (via IMAP)

The $5/month plan comes with a mediocre spam filter that I offer for free. It does an okay job, but if you really get a lot of spam (100+/day) then you'll want something better. I do pride myself on offering one of the best anti-spam solutions out there. After a lot of testing and research I found that no single spam filter could really do a fantastic job of filtering spam. So I went with a two tier approach. On the edge of my network I use Postini to filter the bulk spam that most filters catch easily. My users can administrate it themselves and whitelist/blacklist as they see fit. The second layer of protection is Cloudmark SPAM filter for Exchange. It's a server side solution and when used in conjunction with the Postini eliminates 99.9% of spam. The best part is that the false positive ratio with Cloudmark is nearly flawless. Ham will never be filtered as Spam--as a business class user you can't afford to miss an important client email. With Cloudmark spam filtering you don't have to worry about false positives.

As it relates to mobile phones (blackberries and windows mobile devices) the spam filtering is done BEFORE the mail hits your inbox to spam won't continually be sent to your mobile phone.

Here's how my pricing works. I had to change it recently to due changes in some of the licensing fees I have to pay to MSFT and Cloudmark.

• $5/Mailbox Includes:

• 1GB Storage

• unlimited aliases (for up to three domains)

• Antivirus Scanning (inbound & outbound) - Provided by Forefront Security for Exchange

• Postini SPAM Filter

• Outlook Anywhere, Activesync (Direct Push for Windows Mobile Devices), OWA

• POP3 & IMAP Access

• Entourage support for Macs

• iPhone Support (via IMAP)

Additional Services:

• Cloudmark Anti Spam Technology - $3/month to cover licensing fees

• Blackberry Support - $10month

• Additional Storage $1/month per extra GB of storage

I hope this answers some of your initial questions. Please let me know if you have any additional questions. I can be reached at frank at frankmorley dot com

I don't have a formal terms of service, but I reserve the right to disable your account if I feel you've been using my service to spam. I went through great pains to make sure email from my domain is accepted by other mail servers and if I feel you are jeopardizing things for others you will be banned immediately no questions asked. I will refund your money, but your account will be locked up and you will be permanently banned.