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add to deliciousYou likely know GoDaddy.com as an Internet registrar and for its, er, eye-catching advertisements. Now you can add hosted Exchange to its resume.
What's hosted Exchange, you ask? It's most often found in the workplace, but outside vendors are now offering its push-email and cloud-based storage for monthly fees. We've written about it a bit, and Dieter and Mal have touched on it in a couple of podcasts (19 & 22).
For $6.99 a month, GoDaddy gives you a single mailbox with 2 gigabytes of storage, POP3 and IMAP access (and presumably OWA, though it's not listed), plus the usual calendar goodies. For $9.99 a month you get all of that plus access on your mobile device.
The price isn't bad, but we'd like to see more storage. While 2 gigs is still a boatload of space when it comes to e-mail, it hardly stacks up to the 7 gigs gmail gives you for free. Yeah, it's still not true push e-mail and it doesn't play as nicely with Windows Mobile as Exchange, but you can't beat the cost.
However, it is nice to see another hosted Exchange option come to fruition. Check out GoDaddy's offerings here.
While it's nice to see another option for Hosted Exchange, my preference is IT Solutions Now offering. Their Hosted Exchange service is $9.95 per month for >>>unlimited<<< storage and a free SharePoint site. They're spam filtering is the best I've used; they recently upgraded it to something that deflects known spammers from every making it through to their servers. Prior to this upgrade, I'd get 100 or more spams per day, after, it went down to around 10.
http://www.myhostedsolution.com/