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DreamHost Charges a Fair Price, Once Per Mailbox
DreamHost sells standalone email at $1.67 a mailbox with 25 GB each, full IMAP and no ads, and you do not have to buy web hosting to get it. That is better than most of this bracket, so the argument is about the shape of the meter rather than the rate.
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Alexey Bulygin
Providers Compared
Stalwart Is the Best-Designed Mail Server You Still Have to Run
Stalwart is the most modern thing in the self-hosted category: one integrated server for mail, calendars, contacts and files, with JMAP alongside every older protocol. Which is exactly why the argument here is not about the software.
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Alexey Bulygin
Providers Compared
SimpleLogin Needs a Mailbox Behind It
SimpleLogin creates aliases and forwards what arrives to a mailbox you hold elsewhere. That is the product, not a shortcoming — but it means the bill is never your only mail bill, and the comparison is between two different layers.
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Alexey Bulygin
Providers Compared
StartMail Alternative: Private Email Priced Per Person
StartMail is built for one person at a time, and that shape holds however many you add. They do two things the privacy tier usually gets wrong — real IMAP and unlimited aliases — so this is not a takedown.
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Alexey Bulygin
Providers Compared
Infomaniak Email Alternative: Unlimited Storage, Rationed Addresses
Everyone else meters gigabytes. Infomaniak does not, on any paid tier, from CHF 1.76 a user. What they ration instead is addresses — two per user on the entry plan — and that is where the comparison actually happens.
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Alexey Bulygin
Providers Compared
Wix Does Not Make an Email Product
Wix does not make an email product — it resells Google Workspace, billed per user through your Wix account. That settles most of the comparison, because the mailbox, the limits and the list price are all Google.
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Alexey Bulygin
Providers Compared
You Cannot Buy SiteGround Email on Its Own
SiteGround does not sell email hosting. It sells web hosting, and email comes with it. That is fine until the website moves and you are still paying $215.88 a year for hosting whose only remaining job is holding mailboxes.
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Alexey Bulygin
Providers Compared
Gandi Gives You Infinite Aliases and Charges Per Mailbox
Gandi gives infinite aliases on every plan and withholds nothing but gigabytes, which is rare and worth crediting. It also charges EUR 4.99 a mailbox in a market where that buys unlimited mailboxes elsewhere.
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Alexey Bulygin
Providers Compared
Neo Email Alternative: Where the Backup Sits on the Price List
Neo gates a few things people assume are part of a mailbox. Drive is on the middle tier, email backup on the top one, and every figure is per mailbox — so wanting backup for twenty people is not a $9.99 decision.
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Alexey Bulygin
Business Email
White Label on the Free Plan: Ten Branded Domains for $39
The branding add-on attaches to the free tier exactly as it attaches to Agency, and branding is configured per domain. This covers the three pieces, who the combination suits, and the 5 GB pooled ceiling that decides whether it fits you.
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Alexey Bulygin
Deliverability & DNS
White Label SMTP: Your Brand, Each Client's Own Sending Path
Some clients will not send through anyone else's servers — warm IPs, a contract that names the path, or plain institutional caution. This covers how per-domain branding and per-domain sending compose, and where the DNS work actually lands.
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Alexey Bulygin
Operations Playbook
White Label Client Access: Letting Clients Into the Dashboard Safely
Either clients get no access and every change is a ticket, or they get their own account and you stop being the provider. This covers the middle path — scoped roles, what stays hidden, and the questions to settle before switching it on.
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Alexey Bulygin