Using AWS or Azure, what to do about emails?
- by Paul
I'm coming from a background of paying a hosting company X amount per month for a server. This server comes with IIS, WebsitePanel and Smartermail all bundled together. When I create a new domain using WebsitePanel it automatically creates my email account. All I then need to do is configure my DNS to point to the server.
I've decided that it is more cost efficient to move to AWS / Azure.
Has anyone come from a similar background and moved onto a cloud system? I'd be interested to know what you did regarding emails. So far, these are the suggestions I've seen:
Use Google Apps for each domain
Use something like Elastic Email to sent out emails
Launch a new instance and host an email server on that
The first option seems like quite a lot of manual configuration, the second one works good with outgoing emails but what about receiving? Option 3 would make it less cost effective.
What is your experience?
