They're just more guests on my existing VMWare environment.
If you're not providing these value add and differential services,
you're doing yourself a disservice.
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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
http://www.ics-il.com
On 1/9/2012 10:07 AM, Bryan Fields wrote:
On 1/9/2012 10:48, Faisal Imtiaz wrote:
one of the best one is that the Web
interface is full featured, and looks very much like Outlook.
Additionally if folks use the desktop client, the look and feel of it is
consistent.
Another subtle feature is that it allows for larger than 2 gig Mail boxes.
The only bad part is .. that Zimbra is a Memory Hungry !!!!
and due to the web interface being full functional, folks will use it
Web interface as the primary interface.. thus one will have to make sure
that the mail server is sized correctly to handle the Web load...
Granted it's been awhile since I was running an ISP (dear god almost 7
years or so), but as I still consult and am familiar with the business
of the Indi ISP, hope you all don't mind my two cents.
I truly love zimbra, I use it for my personal mail and blackberry,
however as an ISP your not getting any money to provide email (with
google giving it away you can't compete). Why would you invest in the
hardware necessary to run Zimbra? A simple linux/bsd box can run
qmail with virtual domains and basic spam filtering for 20k email
boxes. If you need to throw 15k dollars on the hardware to run a
redundant zimbra cluster for a service that makes no money, it's not
worth it. All you need is a simple pop box for the end user, if they
want more than that, let them get a Google account (they most likely
have one anyways).
A proper POP+qmail server needs a 1ghz box with raid, a G1 DL360 for
$400 can support this. Figure a day of your time to get it setup and
pop'n and you're going. There is no need to give the customer any
more than that, not to mention they will be bugging your support staff
with stupid questions about the zimbra interface or other inane
stuff. A pop client is all they should guarantee and quite frankly
most end users are lucky they get that with the amount they cost in
support.
I'm not saying this is the proper way, but if you're in the transport
and IP business, then email is secondary. If you're running a value
added service you can license zimbra for that and triple your money,
but most are not in that market.
--
*Bryan Fields*
*APAC Imports LLC*
Phone: 800-721-6502
Fax: 727-493-1511
http://apacimports.com
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