On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Malcolm Greene <[email protected]> wrote:
> We live in a Comcast area (central NJ) and as a courtesy to my > neighbors, I have tried on various occasions to get them setup with > Comcast Business Internet services (hosting and email). I have nothing > positive to say about this experience. Comcast is simply not setup to be > a business class hosting provider. ISP, yes. Hosting no. > > I would strongly recommend almost any other commercial hosting service > as an alternative. Interesting. Comcast is a national company, but it really seems like experiences are quite regional. Part of this is likely because Comcast has bought up the plants of hundreds of smaller cable companies, and over time merged them towards standardized hardware, but it's likely the "head end" and infrastructure still varies from state to state. For example, it's unlikely they have one "Outlook Integration server" but rather dozens deployed regionally. Interestingly, I hear they are using Zimbra as their "Exchange-like" servers for MAPI-based Outlook resource sharing (Yes, I did say "MAPI Bad, SMTP Good" and believe that is true, as far as programming interfaces go. For clients sharing calendars, though,...) You do reinforce my general inclination that mail services ought to be segregated from ISP networking. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
