* Stay away from free hosting. Too many spammers on these types of severs. This creates problems with other hosting providers blocking emails from you, even if you are not spamming yourself.

* Read the hosting policy to make sure no adult sites are allowed on the servers.

* I like a cPanel for the control panel. Typically this would be found on a Linux server.

There are other features to look for, but I consider the top three to be the most important.

Additionally, make sure you don’t do things with your email that might be considered to be spam.

Do not have a catch-all email. This brings problems to you.

Jim

Now I have received the message telling me that I have reached my daily relay SMTP limit, which moved me to Google for comments on it, which brought me here.

Reading this thread makes me wonder whether something has hit the Godaddy virtual server and multiplied my messages, using up my daily relays at the same time.

I think I’ll move hosts!

If you are running a business, chances are you have more than one email account, and chances are you need to get and check for emails fast. Having a delivery schedule of 30 minutes or more is not acceptable to check email. It’s not as though a check every 10 minutes is excessive or overloading the server. Heck, many other service providers can handle it with no problems at all.

Yes, domain registration, web hosting, and emails are 3 completely different things. The point of this is Godaddy virtual server hosting is not really configured well to handle multiple email accounts.

We have almost 100 domains.. I have moved approximatley 20 over, only maybe 5-6 are using email right now and I’m consistently hitting their limits. What am I supposed to tell 100 clients, “You can only send 10 emails per day for your whole business..” ?, “I know you have 60 employees, but your just going to have to take turns sending mail, Judy can send emails on Monday, Sally can send on Tues.. etc..”

Why would anyone get a dedicated server with 600gb of storage and 1500gb of bandwidth it they didn’t plan on hosting a bunch of sites.. with a bunch of email users?

I asked this same question to GoDaddy support and, I swear to god, the answer back was, “I am not allowed to discuss that with you”..

What?? Am I missing something here? Did I misunderstand the sales person when he said I should get the “Unlimited Domain” version of Plesk? Why? What did he think I was gonna use it for? Domains with no email accounts..

This is the craziest thing I have ever come across in all my years of hosting sites..

AVOID GODADDY.. YOU’VE BEEN WARNED..

You will be sadly surprised. I have the same situation and have not been able to increase the limit – the excuse they have is that there is a spamming issue – and instead of helping you solve it they just KILL your email service.

All the instructions have been followed – and there’s NO way to solve it.

I honestly believe there is a bad configuration on their side – and they don’t take the time to check it out. With the access that we as customers are provided – we can’t fix it.

This is very serious and sad that they know we are many customers with this experience and still they think it is a customer. However if you pay expert hands fees – you don’t know the cost – and you won’t know the truth – but do we have a choice?

Why does a good company like Godaddy – give us such a low blow!

I have a dedicated server with a limit of 1000 emails per day. Now I PLAN to host around 25-50 domains on this server.

Godaddy better hope they increase that limit when the time comes… or they will lose a big spending customer

Just to set the record straight a bit, I do have to say, that Go Daddy is still very good on the domain names front. Go Daddy is certainly a cheap means of hosting for many individuals that are interested in putting up a fast website, though it is quite limited on the tools that are available when compared to more traditional forms of hosting. There are however work around options for emailing, even if you are using Go Daddy hosting. I would suggest looking into Google Apps for email and various cloud based applications for business. The free Google Apps version provides plenty of firepower for email (50 users for free) and other web based applications that make it a very powerful starting point for any small company wanting to get a great email service.

Jim

I gotta believe the solution is to have a reliable spam filter that rejects 99% of the spam before the forward. I can’t seem to get the PLESK provided tools to do much rejection and I’m not even sure the filters run prior to the forward.

BTW – godaddy didn’t want to charge me the same $75 – I just need to ask for an increase in the number. But, I was using a bounceback mechanism to inform legit users of an email address change and godaddy completely shut down ALL email, in and out, until I turned it off.

Hints how to setup the spam filters and/or tweak settings within the system would help us who are still struggling.

I also made sure of the following was not bouncing back emails to to others for any of the email accounts.

This is from Godaddy Help

There is a daily limit of 1,000 outbound emails from your dedicated/virtual dedicated server. There are several other reasons besides “standard email” that can cause you to reach this daily restriction. The following are a few things you can check:

Verify That Your Domain Name is Not Sending Out Bouncebacks.

The default Plesk setting is to bounce email sent to non-existent users. This means that if your domain is coolexample.com, and someone sends an email to a non-existent user (ex: johndoe@coolexample.com), it is defaulted to send a message back saying “This user does not exist”. If your domain receives a lot of incoming mail to non-existent users, the daily limit can be hit in no time.