I'm looking for stable E-mail hosting provider for small business/startup. If you have any suggestions, let me know.
Ask HN: Which E-mail hosting and CRM do you use for your startup?
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Re: Ask HN: Which E-mail hosting and CRM do you use for your startup?
#2Gsuite, or the like. Don't spend too much time on this decision
Re: Ask HN: Which E-mail hosting and CRM do you use for your startup?
#3Webfaction. Most of the cases it does all: Create multiple mailbox with multiple addresses, email redirections, multiple users, and with no users/alias limit. Other mail hosting only services, are to much for what you normally need. If it's just about receive and setting up accounts, Webfaction is more than enough.
If you are going to send transactional or marketing email, use Amazon SES, or Mandrill if you don't want to deal with setting up AWS SES. I had lost lot of my time trying to use the same email hosting for marketing purpose, don't recommend that to anyone.
For CRM, I really like https://insightly.com when I used it really helps me to get back on contacting users quickly, however if I have a bigger team in the future, I will try http://pipedrive.com.
But being real, 60% of the cases and spreadsheet and a share contact folder in Google using the Delegation option had been my day to day tool.
Re: Ask HN: Which E-mail hosting and CRM do you use for your startup?
#4For general purpose email: GMail
For transactional email: Amazon SES
CRM: self-hosted SugarCRM
Re: Ask HN: Which E-mail hosting and CRM do you use for your startup?
#5I just forward emails to my gmail account.
Re: Ask HN: Which E-mail hosting and CRM do you use for your startup?
#6Google Apps (now called "G Suite"). $5/month, stable, "just works," and via Google Docs/Drive you have a CRM solution.
Alternatively Office 365 Business Premium. $12.50/month (12 month minimum commitment). Only reason you'd consider this is that it includes Email, Office Desktop Suite (Outlook, Word, Excel, etc), and CRM. Essentially you'd merge a couple of bills into one bill.
Both are alright support, good uptime, great vendor support, good scaling, and migration strategies (in and out).
PS - Yes, this is the "boring" and "obvious" answer but sometimes things are "boring" and "obvious" for a good reason.
Re: Ask HN: Which E-mail hosting and CRM do you use for your startup?
#7gmail + hubspot. Hubspot has a free crm but I use the sales add on ($50 per month) that adds email integration/opening rates, things like that
Re: Ask HN: Which E-mail hosting and CRM do you use for your startup?
#8Use HubSpot, I find they've worked incredibly well at scale. Plus it's free to get going.
Re: Ask HN: Which E-mail hosting and CRM do you use for your startup?
#9I use G Suite, I know it and lately it's been always up - Google wrote the book on System Reliability Engineering.
I use Streak CRM as it integrates with gmail.
Re: Ask HN: Which E-mail hosting and CRM do you use for your startup?
#10Yandex is free and close to google suite.