SoylentNews

Migrating Local Email into the Cloud?

posted by janrinok on Thursday March 20 2014, @09:18PM   
from the and-clouds-can-disappear dept.

Jaruzel writes:

"I have an on-premises Microsoft Exchange system that hosts my families personal email, which has gone through several upgrades over the years. However Exchange 2013 is now too bloated for my needs, and I find myself wanting to migrate my email services to a cloud provider.

The kicker is that although I only have about 5 live accounts, I have over 200 email aliases attached to those accounts. Most of the cloud providers out there do not support this configuration, or charge per 'address' which makes the cost prohibitive for personal email.

Do any SoylentNewsers know of, or can advise the best way to migrate this lot out of my garage without losing all my aliases or having to pay through the nose?"

• "The Cloud" "The Cloud" (Score: 4, Interesting) by MrGuy on Thursday March 20 2014, @09:38PM

  by MrGuy (1007) on Thursday March 20 2014, @09:38PM (#19072)

  It's so hard to know what people mean when they talk about moving something "to the cloud."

  In practice, what I find they're usually really talking about is using a SAAS (Software As A Service) provider, who will handle all the uptime, maintenance, hosting, and just let you configure the thing.

  If all you're looking for is a "cloud" hosted solution, then (as someone previously suggested), something like an EC2 instance running dovecot/postfix would give you all the flexibility you could ever dream of, with the advantage of a virtual distributed server that you don't have to worry about going down (and can back up and restore at the push of a button).

  Starting Score:	1		point
  Moderation		+2
  Interesting=1, Underrated=1, Total=2
  Extra 'Interesting' Modifier		0
  Karma-Bonus Modifier		+1
  Total Score:		4

• Re:"The Cloud" Re:"The Cloud" (Score: 5, Insightful) by mechanicjay on Thursday March 20 2014, @10:02PM

  by mechanicjay (7) <reversethis-{gro ... a} {yajcinahcem}> on Thursday March 20 2014, @10:02PM (#19081) Homepage Journal

  When I'm speaking with someone who starts talking about talking moving stuff off-site to"The Cloud", my first thing is to stop them and say, "Just so we're clear, you know that 'The Cloud' is a euphemism for 'pay someone else a lot of money to run some servers', right?" Which may or may not make sense based on the business case. But it's important to make people think of that cost up front before they get too far into "Wee it's all free!" mode. For business purposes the "Free" tier of whatever service is seldom the appropriate one.

  --
  My VMS box beat up your Windows box.

  Parent

  • Re:"The Cloud" Re:"The Cloud" (Score: 4, Insightful) by neagix on Thursday March 20 2014, @10:20PM

    by neagix (25) on Thursday March 20 2014, @10:20PM (#19086)

    Exactly. Just ask "why to the cloud and not to a VPS?" to spot that they have no idea about what they are talking about. Do they need advanced cloud services like load balancers, elastic nodes, snapshots etc? No! Most times they have no frickin' idea what is that about...good job on the buzzword marketing, worst job on reading and learning what is the technology.
    
    This reminds me of that time when I told the "expert" that NoSQL databases usually are not ACID compliant...that face, that stupor, and too bad my two-handed claymore [wikipedia.org] was at home!

    Parent

    • Re:"The Cloud" Re:"The Cloud" (Score: 3, Funny) by GeminiDomino on Friday March 21 2014, @03:19AM

      by GeminiDomino (661) on Friday March 21 2014, @03:19AM (#19149)

      too bad my two-handed claymore was at home!

      There's a one-handed claymore?

      --
      "We've been attacked by the intelligent, educated segment of our culture"

      Parent

      • Re:"The Cloud" (Score: 2) by neagix on Friday March 21 2014, @07:57AM

        by neagix (25) on Friday March 21 2014, @07:57AM (#19181)

        It was just to add emphasis and colour ;)

        Parent

      • Re:"The Cloud" (Score: 2) by TheRaven on Friday March 21 2014, @08:56AM

        by TheRaven (270) on Friday March 21 2014, @08:56AM (#19195) Journal

        Depends on how big your hands are...

        --
        sudo mod me up

        Parent

• Re:"The Cloud" Re:"The Cloud" (Score: 2) by Jaruzel on Thursday March 20 2014, @11:12PM

  by Jaruzel (812) on Thursday March 20 2014, @11:12PM (#19104) Homepage Journal

  In practice, what I find they're usually really talking about is using a SAAS (Software As A Service) provider, who will handle all the uptime, maintenance, hosting, and just let you configure the thing.

  Exactly this. I used the term 'Cloud' to make it clear I don't want to just move my config from my garage to a remote location and STILL be the one having to tinker with it.

  --
  This is my opinion, there are many others, but this one is mine.

  Parent

  • Re:"The Cloud" (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 20 2014, @11:42PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 20 2014, @11:42PM (#19119)

    Postfix - once setup no tinkering required.

    Parent