@JaredBusch said in Email server options:
@zachary715 said in Email server options:
Also, will they require hardware upgrades if they choose any on-premises option that will add to the project costs?
No. Their current on site hardware can handle it. That hardware will likely see an upgrade in 2020 or 2021.
Even being a year or two down the road, that's extra hardware you know you wouldn't otherwise need if hosted therefore a portion of the hardware upgrade costs should be allocated today in my opinion.
@JaredBusch said in Email server options:
@zachary715 said in Email server options:
you have no intention of maintaining this system outside of backups etc, therefore they have someone already who is skilled enough to do so?
No, we are their outsourced IT department, we will handle it. But when planning, I never plan for us to continue to do so. I obviously hope they continue to have us do so, but I never plan on it.
I think here it's in the best interest of the company then to have some form of hosted solution that's easier to have someone else step into and manage in a scenario where your relationship ended. If I were a key decision maker at the company, no matter how much I liked you and we'd been in business together, that's a risk factor I'd have to consider.
Just curious, if Zoho + spam/malware filtering seemed to check all the boxes at $3/user/mo, would you immediately go Zoho vs EOP1 simply based on cost? Is cost the ultimate factor?
