Comments on: ADVICE NEEDED: Who Offers The Best BES / Exchange Hosting?

By: Chris Benavidez

Chris Benavidez — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 08:26:12 +0000

Currently using The Message Center and all is good!

By: jason trumpwal

jason trumpwal — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 11:40:39 +0000

you can check cloudmail.ca , they offer unlimited mailbox for $9.95.

By: Matthew Palis

Matthew Palis — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:48:10 +0000

Ronen – Thanks – I just submitted the form on your site because I am interested in advertising. We are always open to supporting blackberry oriented sites to keep them alive and helping the community.

By: Ronen Halevy

Ronen Halevy — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:18:13 +0000

Link2Exchange has an excellent reputation. I just have no personal experience with the service. I always thought BES hosts should advertise more.

By: Matthew Palis

Matthew Palis — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:07:16 +0000

You should give us a try as well. We have been doing exchange and bes hosting for many years..have a solid value and experience with BES since the first version. Over 40% of our exchange accounts have BES. Call us and we will waive all activation fees including BES and give a 30 day free trial – just mention that you saw my post on this blog. No risk! We are that confident in our service and support.
888-509-8555 x302

By: Ronen Halevy

Ronen Halevy — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 18:44:50 +0000

@Steve
Personally I can recommend 3 BES hosting providers:
Mail2web
TheMessageCenter
Exchangemymail
In no specific order. I personally use The message center but the rest of the team uses Mail2Web and they love it.

By: Steve Jones

Steve Jones — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:26:29 +0000

I am also looking for a BES hosting provider. Any recommendations? Like Rick B. customer service is a priority.

By: Rick B.

Rick B. — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:35:45 +0000

I am on SherWeb’s trial plan and do not plan on continuing. The biggest issue is that their performance is terrible. Connecting and retreiving messages is very slow. They also tend to drop connections a lot. Their customer service, while responsive, is not very good. They were unable to help me with two basic outlook issues.

By: magicmic

magicmic — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:04:55 +0000

We are considering going to SherWeb. We have seen good reviews online about them. What do others here think about SherWeb?

By: Stephane

Stephane — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:52:10 +0000

Après quelques années avec Sherweb, nous quittons enfin vers un autre fournisseur. Sherweb a souvent des pannes sur son réseau, et même une panne a duré 24 heures. Ils sont également très stricts et peu compréhensifs envers les besoins de leurs clients. Je ne recommande absolument pas cette compagnie.

By: Sara

Sara — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:09:40 +0000

I’ve been using Intermedia for my bes and exchange 07 hosting and I’ve had a good experience with them so far. If you are concerned with mailbox space they might be worth a look, as they offer pretty big mailboxes as well.

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Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:28:00 +0000

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By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 19:34:19 +0000

I’m currently using SherWeb’s Blackberry Hosting and I love it.

I just thought you guys should know

By: The Message Center BES Hosting Raises Storage To 1GB | BerryReview

The Message Center BES Hosting Raises Storage To 1GB | BerryReview — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:44:35 +0000

[...] Previously I had mentioned that I was looking into alternative BES hosting companies and last month I changed to TheMessageCenter.com and have been quite happy since. This past week they sent me an email that their already generous 500MB of storage would be increased for all users to 1GB for free. Personally I think this is amazing since I could really use the extra space. I just thought I would let everybody know about the new update since my old BES hosting company was charging me the same price of $9.99 for only 200MB of Exchange space. They also have no BlackBerry activation fee and a 90 day money back guarantee if you just want to try them out. Check out the new rate plans over at TheMessageCenter.com [...]

By: Nathan Klien

Nathan Klien — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 18:53:08 +0000

I’ll try and stay away from recomending 1 host or another, I pefer to have you do that based on other’s reviews.

That said, I did look into Mail2Web. The price seems OK for what you are describing, but I cannot speak to their customer service.

It looks like you are also looking for good support, and preferably US based. I’d suggest looking over the various hosts you considered (or those on our site), and see which ones offer the widest time span for support. Some offer 24×7, while other only have office hours support.

By: BerryReview

BerryReview — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 03:54:25 +0000

Thanks Nathan I appreciate it! I was curious how Mail2Web looks for consumers. I am really trying to find a good host with a simple plan that gives me more than 100mb storage

By: Nathan Klien

Nathan Klien — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 13:34:28 +0000

BerryReview,
I just didn’t get around to adding them. I usually give preference to those who contact me.

That said, Microsoft does have a Hosted Exchange Server Partner Directory list at http://www.microsoft.com/serviceproviders/solutions/catalog.aspx

By: BerryReview

BerryReview — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 18:39:25 +0000

Nathan,
I also wanted to ask you about the reviews. Is there a reason there is no category for TheMessageCenter or Mail2Web? I have been looking for a comprehensive list of exchange hosts but cannot seem to find one.

By: BerryReview

BerryReview — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 18:36:14 +0000

Peter,
I have emailed them about the extra space but they have not responded to both of my emails. They have outages about 3 times a month in my experience. Nothing has been a deal breaker but they just don’t seem to care as much they used to in the past. It used to be that you could call and get a support agent in less than 10 minutes now you are on hold for at least that long when there is an issue.

Could I ask which hosts you have tried out so that I can cross them off my list?

By: Nathan Klien

Nathan Klien — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:23:54 +0000

BerryReview,
This is Nathan from Exchange Hosting Reviews. We do not recomend any specific company – all the results that you see there are based on user votes.

That said, the listing you see on the home pages is based on averages. So a company with 2 good reviews will have a higher average then a company with 100 votes with 95 good and 5 so-so reviews.

You really need to look at the number of reviews and the actual review comments to make an informed decision. Some companies offer cheaper pricing, while others are more expensive but offer 24/7 support. Of these some are email only, some are phone, some are by manned ouside the US and others are US based.

You can see the list of Exchange Hosting Companies at http://www.exchangehostingreviews.com/reviews.html including the number of reviews for each one.

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 07:25:43 +0000

have you spoken to them about additional space?

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 05:21:39 +0000

David

We are also long time customers of Exchange My Mail. We just migrated to their new system and got on the new plans. We now pay the same amount, and get more storage.

As for a 12 hour outage, i have not had any outages in quite some time. Maybe this was just affecting some small portion of customers.

As for support, we get great support, and at the few times we don’t get the responses we need, we just reply back in more detail, and everything works out.

Anyway – after moving from host to host, all i can tell you is the grass is not any greener on the other side. So far this has been the best decision we have made..

Good luck.

By: BerryReview

BerryReview — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 20:00:49 +0000

David I just checked out USA.Net and I cant seem to find pricing or any other information on the site. What is so good about these guys?

By: David

David — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 18:28:00 +0000

Have you looked at USA.NET ?