Hi,
We have been a Postini customer since their first year in business.
Once you "outsource" that part of it, you wonder how you ever did it
before. Right now it is probably saving us at least 10Mbps of
bandwidth, which in our area is over $500 per month. We also charge
customers $1 per email per month, and businesses pay per domain. So, we
are making money on this service, and we don't have to even touch it
most of the time (and we have hundreds of domains, including full
school districts, etc.) and thousands of individual users.
The other advantage is if your internet backbone goes down (for
whatever reason), Postini will automatically "cache" your email so once
you are back up, all the email gets delivered. (same if your email
server dies, etc.)
(Maybe I should become a Postini reseller, eh? :) )
Travis
Microserv
John Thomas wrote:
Travis, because there is an element of control that you lose when you
outsource. I have a client that got really upset when an email that was
addressed to 3 companies only made it to one employee. Long story short,
Frontbridge saw that the email came into their servers, but only one
copy went out to 1 of the companies employees. This took *several* hours
and 3 different Frontbridge employees to find out. If this client had
been using a Barracuda, then there wouldn't have been a problem. Before
you start to flame me, I know that you aren't supposed to use email in
this manner, i.e. mission critical, time sensitive Purchase orders from
Asia to the US, but this client did, and they were furious. Another
reason I have a problem is that both Frontbridge and Postini *require* a
3 year commitment, and you may not have to pay up front, but once you
sign on, they have you for 3 years. I have a BIG problem with any
business that operates like that. In this instance, the cleint is now
stuck with Frontbridge for 2 1/2 years, and their attitude when asked
about a refund was "tough, you agreed to a 3 year term, and we have your
money."
John Thomas
Travis Johnson wrote:
And on another thought... with that much junk mail, why not use a
service that blocks the spam BEFORE it uses your bandwidth and
resources? Like Postini... or others.
Travis
Microserv
Frank Muto wrote:
Just a thought, unless you have a 600 or better unit, you are running 1x10/100 Ethernet on 100-400 units vs. 2xGigabit on to
600-1000 units, IMO creating a bottleneck even with low to moderate user accounts. This is where most of our cross-over sales
are from, in the lower model units. With the amount of junk email flying around out there, even active user accounts under
250 are pulling in substantial amounts of junk and direct harvest attacks.
Frank Muto
www.secureemailplus.com
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From: "Mac Dearman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'WISPA General List'" <wireless@wispa.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2008 5:13 PM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] alternative to Barracuda
Kurt,
What firmware are you running?
How many emails are you filtering?
Have you done a "hard reboot" on it lately?
How many Spam emails are you killing per hour? Per day? (There is a Daily
Traffic graph/email that tell you this)
I know mine too (Cuda) is sluggish, but it's the amount of incoming spam
that is bogging us down. We are getting hammered (and have been for months)
by spam in excess of 500,000 per 24 hours.
I will agree - Cuda is a PITA and we will begin testing with Jeremy Davis
this week. He hosts the backend (web hosting, email, radius, Freeside...etc)
for a bunch of other WISPs including SPAM filtering - My fingers are crossed
and if you will holler at me off list later this week I will give you a
report on how things are going.
Mac
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On
Behalf Of Kurt Fankhauser
Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2008 11:00 AM
To: 'WISPA General List'
Subject: [WISPA] alternative to Barracuda
Has anyone used this spam firewall? http://www.untangle.com
<http://www.untangle.com/> it is free to install on any server. I have
a
Barracuda SF200 and this thing is making me angry. It is so slow I
don't
even bother trying to log into it. It times out constantly and is so
un-responsive. When it does work it takes a min of 30 seconds to change
pages and that's when it is working properly. Its not overloaded I only
got
<200 email addresses and its rated for 500.
I'm looking for anything this Barracuda junk is not worth the $500 year
subscription when you can't even log into it.
Kurt Fankhauser
WAVELINC
P.O. Box 126
Bucyrus, OH 44820
419-562-6405
www.wavelinc.com
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