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What do you use for email hosting when you have 30+ domains?

Domain Names by RAJ 21 replies 8K views
#11

Been a few weeks but figured I'd circle back. Ended up going with Hostinger's reseller tier like cpanelliw780 mentioned, wasn't even listed on their main site had to open a ticket. So far so good, split the client domains across two shared IPs and delivery is cleaner than my old single-VPS setup. Still using cPanel though, clients would revolt if I changed their workflow

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#12

Did anyone actually try Hostinger's reseller tier in the end? Their site barely mentions it and I couldn't get a straight answer from sales last spring.

I ended up splitting my lot across two HostHatch mail-only plans instead. Pain to migrate but the deliverability tracking actually works.

#13

43 days and nobody wants to talk about the actual problem

cpanelliw780 said:
200 rules in gmail is amateur numbers I have like 600 in sieve

Carl my dude that is not a flex, that is a cry for help

But real talk for RAJ since this thread died — did you ever solve this or are you still feeding that KnownHost VPS

The docker-mailserver thing I mentioned works but honestly if your clients cant handle DNS you probably dont want to be their postfix support line either

HostHatch has a reseller mail tier that actually handles the DNS setup for you, friend of mine moved 60 domains onto it last year and stopped getting 3 AM "my outlook says not trusted" texts

Just saying, "simple for clients" and "I run my own stack" are usually opposite directions

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#14

47 days forgot I even posted in this thread

Doug said:
600 sieve rules lmao

Hey man when you inherit a client who forwards everything to 6 addresses and wants a copy in a folder for "just in case" you end up with some creative routing

Anyway @RAJ did you end up moving or still on that KnownHost box? Curious if you tried the Hostinger route, been hearing their reseller mail tier got some deliverability issues lately but could just be forum noise

#15

85 days lol, figured this thread was dead

Doug said:
600 sieve rules lmao

Hey man you laugh but when youre managing that many domains with clients who forward everything to gmail anyway you need granularity

Anyway raj if youre still around I ended up moving most of my stuff to Hostinger reseller in the end, their mail-only tier is buried in the site but its there, about half what I was paying KnownHost for the VPS plus I dont have to babysit exim updates anymore

Deliverability actually improved somehow, think they warm up IPs in pools

Still run my personal stuff on the CloudCone dedi though old habits

#16

Anyway Raj did you end up moving off that KnownHost box or are you still limping along. Curious if you ever checked out Hostinger like Carl mentioned, their reseller page is basically invisible on the site but support will set it up if you ask. Been 4 months so guessing you either solved it or everything exploded.

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#17

130 days, well I just migrated the last of my clients off that 2gb setup before the host imploded

cpanelliw780 said:
85 days lol, figured this thread was dead Hey man you laugh but when youre managing that many domains with clients who forward everything...

Honestly the real problem with sieve at that scale is you start hitting pathological cases where rspamd and dovecot fight each other on memory maps, saw it on a Hostinger node once where the oom killer started eating imap processes during a greylisting spike

Anyway for anyone still reading: docker-mailserver 14.x finally fixed the ldap schema bug so if you were holding off on that, it's safe now

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#18

This is still relevant to me so

cpanelliw780 said:
Set catchalls on everything and let the spam filter sort it out
This is genuinely terrible advice for deliverability, catchalls are how you end up on every backscatter list known to man I ended up going with HostHatch for a dedicated mail setup after outgrowing my own KnownHost situation and the difference in IP reputation management alone was worth it, they actually monitor blacklists and rotate proactively instead of waiting for you to notice Still kept a small Hostinger reseller account for the clients who insist on having a control panel they can screenshot to their nephew who "knows computers" The no-GUI docker route sounds elegant until you're debugging why one client's mail client suddenly stopped accepting TLS 1.2 and you need to SSH in at 11pm to read postfix logs For 35 domains I'd split the difference, dedicated mail host for deliverability plus one simple panel host for the clients who panic without icons

#19

Did anyone here actually move off cPanel for this scale of operation? I'm curious how the client handoff went.

cpanelliw780 said:
85 days lol, figured this thread was dead Hey man you laugh but when youre managing that many domains with clients who forward everything...

This made me laugh but also worry about your sanity.

#20

227 days late but hey

cpanelliw780 said:
Set catchalls on everything and let the spam filter sort it out

This is how you get your whole /24 listed by Spamhaus in a week, no? Catchalls are basically spam magnets at volume. The sieve rule flex is funny though.

Did anyone actually try the Hostinger reseller tier? Their site is a maze and I never found pricing.

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