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Migrating Local Email into the Cloud?

posted by janrinok on Thursday March 20 2014, @09:18PM   Printer-friendly
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?"

 
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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by edIII on Thursday March 20 2014, @11:14PM

    by edIII (791) on Thursday March 20 2014, @11:14PM (#19107)

    It's not just hosted. It implies redundancy in many use cases as well.

    A simple hosted solution does not always have that. Is that VPS redundant? Is it with a provider that has live migration of running instances?

    Amazon EC2 could be a place to start for something like that.

    In this case though, I would be looking for a SAAS company that will provide some redundancy and data backups and just provide the service itself.

    I myself would look into Zimbra. It's very extensible and relatively cheap. If you demand MS compatible technologies look into Appriver or equivalent to provide it. Both should allow you unlimited aliases, and a couple thousand is not huge. It's just an alias and represents no substantive impact on the infrastructure other than an initial lookup from the SMTP server.

    The best part is that your costs of maintaining that Server 2013 should be large enough to get a very nice SAAS service someplace and not have to worry about it again.

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