jim80.net » OpenDNS http://blog.jim80.net Security, Systems, and Storage Fri, 30 Apr 2010 19:46:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 e-Mail http://blog.jim80.net/2009/06/24/e-mail/ http://blog.jim80.net/2009/06/24/e-mail/#comments Thu, 25 Jun 2009 04:15:24 +0000 jim http://blog.jim80.net/?p=219 If you don’t have to host your own email server, why do it? In fact, if any web facing application on your site can be hosted by dedicated specialists with no real appreciable loss to availability, confidentiality, integrity, or other factor, don’t fall victim of the do-it-just-because-you-can mentality. The chief services I advise folks to outsource are e-mail (IMAP/POP/SMTP), and DNS. These critical services are often in better hands with the likes of Google Apps, with your registrar, or OpenDNS (not necessarily an endorsement as these names are just on the top of my head). These folks can dedicate a lot more fault-tolerant capacity than most, taking charge of security and systems management. On top of that, they sell it mostly likely because they’re good at it (there are no doubt exceptions, but not with the above two links). With configuration and maintenance out of your scope of responsibility, you don’t have to spend countless hours tracing emails or checking DNS proliferation. Get a quote and do an analysis. If the amount of time you save by outsourcing some services is worth the price you pay to do so, then it’s a no-brainer, really.

Note: Speaking of checking all that stuff: some neat online tools: MX Toolbox, DNSStuff, and IPTools are some handy websites in regards to mail or DNS.

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