Francis Jayakanth writes: > Transforming to a hosted service would alleviate the technical > burden and ensure the smooth operation of the list. If anyone has > recommendations or experiences with reliable and affordable hosted > services for Mailman list management, I would greatly appreciate > your insights and guidance.
For reasons I don't understand (I guess the vast majority of our subscribers administer their own hosts?), this kind of request rarely gets much response. There is a substantial list of hosting services at https://wiki.list.org/COM/Mailman%20hosting%20services. The ones who list prices all look pretty "reasonable" to me, but YMMV. Of those, EMWD (near the top) put a lot of effort into its offerings including writing completely new front ends for administration and archiving. I like ours better, but theirs are slick and definitely simpler. Brian (the founder) put substantial effort in on our lists helping users directly and was circumspect about mentioning his own company. He also produced excellent documentation for setting up a dedicated Mailman 3 server. The management has changed since due to Brian's untimely passing, and they're not as hacking-oriented as he was, but I've seen nothing that diminishes their reputation for service. They have been responsive to our occasional inquiries, but they're much less present here than before. IIRC, mailman3.com and mailman4.com are run by the same company. I'm pretty the principal is a frequent contributor to Mailman development, both directly and as a mentor in GSoC (though not a core developer). I can't say anything about service from experience or reputation here, and he's less present on the user lists than Brian was. I would suggest that you start by looking at that list. (Note that the order is chronological, oldest listings at the top, and I wouldn't attach much if any significance to order.) For your situation as you describe it, I would suggest looking at those where the focus is clearly on Mailman first. Folks who offer generic hosting can easily offer Mailman, but in that class service is spotty. Some are very good, I'm sure (and for that reason their customers don't show up here to compliment them! :-( ). Others are not so great for Mailman, some even say "we just install Mailman and cPanel the rest is up to you". If you have interest in a few specific providers, you could ask here. It might be useful to specify you want private answers. Steve ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list -- mailman-users@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to mailman-users-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/mailman-users.python.org/ Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: https://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users@python.org/ https://mail.python.org/archives/list/mailman-users@python.org/ Member address: arch...@jab.org
