<div dir="ltr">On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 4:35 PM, CrankyOldBugger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:crankyoldbugger@gmail.com" target="_blank">crankyoldbugger@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I just went through all the statements (luckily they were online) and figured that I'm paying around $200US per site per year, so around $17US per month per site.</div>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>So, Linode $20 would be a good idea financially only if you can put both sites on one Linode. That leaves the administration part.<br><br></div><div>Did you look into Wordpress.com hosting? You don't need to deal with the Linux part of it at all.<br>
<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>One other criteria that I need to consider is how easy it would be for any one of my users to access their email at the charity site. Right now I haven't issued email addresses to the other organizers simply because the getmail program on this site is not at all user friendly. So any new host (if I find one) would have to have webmail that older users could understand.</div>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The advice I can offer is that you do not offer email to anyone. It is way more headache than it is worth it, with all the spam, DMARC, SPF, ...etc. Some of their emails will not reach intended recipients, and they will complain to you and you cannot do much.<br>
<br>Better farm out the email (e.g. to Google Apps, which has a free tier), or ask them to get free email from Google or someone. There are some who would not like that because Google is USian, NSA, ...etc. but remember that email has at least two parties: sender and receiver. And you can't control where the receiver is hosting, nor what they do with the email.<br>
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