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Today I’m going to discuss two more services for handling your startup’s email. These options are for those of you who need a little something more in your email hosting. Looking for Exchange and Sharepoint hosting? Got it. Need tons of mailbox space because you never delete email or attachments? Covered. In addition, I’m trying to keep your costs low. Let’s dive in.
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My first startup involved hosting websites and offering email accounts to users, so I had to set up an email server and programmatically add/remove email accounts, filter spam, and knock it with a wrench then mail got stuck in its innards.
These days setting up an email server is pretty easy. But just because it’s easy doesn’t mean you should do it.
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Back when I did my first startup, we were pretty hardcore about data privacy. We had an overpriced SSL certificate, we encrypted credit cards and other customer data, encoded our PHP code with Zend Encoder, and disallowed SSH connections except from specific IPs. We were in charge of security.
Nowadays, PCI Compliance is the boss. If you store or transmit credit card information in your organization or site, you will have to conform to the PCI DSS rules in order to do business.
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If you read my last post about servers, you may be wondering how much this is going to cost to get a server. Don’t worry. It’s not as expensive as it once was. Let’s go over the options.
It’s a noble thought, and you wouldn’t be the first to think it. First of all, your ISP is not going to approve of you running a web server on their network. Second, your IP address at your home will change from time to time. If it does, your site will be down because your domain (www address) will be pointing to the old address. There are ways around that but just don’t.
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I mentioned yesterday about a service that will record a professional voicemail greeting and phone directory for you. Today I’ll go over a service that offers professional voice recordings exclusively.
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At some point you’re going to want to add a phone number to your contact page. And for those who want to give their contact page a more professional touch, a phone number helps you to look like a real business.
I’ve found a few services that will allow you to grow your phone system as your business grows.
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In my last post, I explained how 99Designs works. Now I’ll tell you a little more about how it worked for me, some advice on getting good results, and some of the controversy about using such a service.
I had heard about 99Designs a while back, and wanted to try it out. When I first researched 99designs, I found a competitor called CrowdSpring. With a little more digging, I found the logo contest for CrowdSpring that was done on 99Designs. CrowdSpring still uses the logo from that contest. Looking around at the current contests, there was even a contest for a new logo for TweetPhoto.
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When I came up with the concept of this site in early 2009, I was coming across many services that effectively outsourced tasks that you would normally hire someone to do. One of these tasks is logo design.
There are hundreds, perhaps thousands of logo design sites out there. They work in much the same way a web design firm would. You give an idea of the type of design or concept or feeling you want your site to express, and they’ll create one or more designs for you to approve/improve upon. Not bad, but you’re limited to the designs they offer you and the skill of their set of designers.
