I was researching this. And still am.
I always come to conclusion that either I have to host mail for myself, or use Google Apps.
I can't trust Microsoft to host my email, nor I want to trust Rackspace (for some odd reason, two feedbacks I received were from people who had negative experiences with them). Zoho is nice choise, but they had multi-week outage year or two ago, with somewhat unclear notification to users.
Fastmail was always second choice, because it was more expensive for amount of mail I have now, which will need to be stored on their servers.
Also, as I'll be hosting email for family, I calculate for 5 accounts.
Google Apps came out to 25/month.
Self-hosting option came out to one Linode machine, plus one other VPS provider machine located in different location for backup MX. That came out to 15/month.
Fastmail was more expensive at the time (was I looking at business account for some reason?), but their pricing page -- https://www.fastmail.com/pricing/ -- shows that they are same price as Google. Can't seem to find their multi-year discount information.
I always come to conclusion that either I have to host mail for myself, or use Google Apps.
I can't trust Microsoft to host my email, nor I want to trust Rackspace (for some odd reason, two feedbacks I received were from people who had negative experiences with them). Zoho is nice choise, but they had multi-week outage year or two ago, with somewhat unclear notification to users.
Fastmail was always second choice, because it was more expensive for amount of mail I have now, which will need to be stored on their servers.
Also, as I'll be hosting email for family, I calculate for 5 accounts.
Google Apps came out to 25/month.
Self-hosting option came out to one Linode machine, plus one other VPS provider machine located in different location for backup MX. That came out to 15/month.
Fastmail was more expensive at the time (was I looking at business account for some reason?), but their pricing page -- https://www.fastmail.com/pricing/ -- shows that they are same price as Google. Can't seem to find their multi-year discount information.