[RKDinOKC]

rant on

Have a web and email hosting service, Zipbang.com. It hosts web and email for 4 different companies, one of them being the Aerial Photography company that Glen works for.

Have a very old Mac xServe that used to be the Company I work for, Kimray's mail server. When Kimray went to Exchange there were two mailing lists still on the xServe because Exchange don't do that. One is an opt in literature update list, the other is an opt in discussion email list for our sales people and distributors both with about 200 users. The xServer hardware is getting long in the tooth and needs replacement.

I've looked at several options and the least of which is around $3000 a year for hosting or about the same for software to run on your own server.

The Zipbang mailserver can host up to 10 mailing lists FREE as part of licensing and has none right nw. So, I offered to host Kimray's two small mailing lists Free. Our, oh so smart Head of IT says he does not want to use Zipbang because it is not an Enterprise Solution. What the FCUK? Not and Enterprise Solution AND give me a break it's only two mailing lists!!!

I asked him what the difference is between hosting with Zipbang and some service that is going to charge them $3000. Again with the Enterprise Solution excuse.

He says we can't get support. What am I chopped liver? And I can't get support for the software I license. What?

He say's well you host it from home and it's not secure data center, what if there is a fire or tornado. Said I can put a lock on the closet. Which is a fire/tornado proof and the Kimray data center.

As far as my server goes it is better than backed up, it is redundant. I have a second server set as a failover. The server drives are not just backed up, they are bootable backups done nightly with hourly incremental backups. Thanks to Glen I have monthly off-site backups for the mail server.

In putting in my battery backups I checked with Cox Business first and if power goes out Internet goes out whether I keep my router up or not. And Kimray is the same. Every time their power has gone out their servers are not available. So they are set to just safely shut down the servers if the power is out longer than 10 minutes.

Said the only different between Zipbang and anyone else is I don't charge a bunch for being in an office building or maintaining a store front.

This guy is going to run Kimray into bankruptcy with his if it ain't expensive it ain't "Enterprise" BS.

/rant