I made a request earlier this year for an encrypted anonymous email service, and I was informed by Boleh that not enough users would be interested to justify the cost. I believe that was the reason if I remember correctly. I do understand that any business has to weigh the cost, and benefits of any service to stay in business. I also understand Boleh has other goals for their company in which they would prefer to spend the funds on. I'm a former customer of Xerobank, and they are the only VPN that I have seen that offers an anonymous encrypted email service. I'm just wondering why that is. What are the cost, and risk inovolved?
1. Could someone give me an ideal of the cost involved in maintaining, and operating such a service? Bandwidth, server, maintenance, personnel, etc..
2. Does operating such a service make a VPN service more of a target by Government agencies?
3. What would be the approximate cost that would be passed on to the client to make make such a service possible?
4. Would it be more economical for a VPN to offer encrypted email as an additional package that can be purchased separately from the VPN? It may warrant a survey to see just how many users would be willing to pay for encrypted email at an additional cost. Even if it came bundled with Boleh VPN i'm sure it would bring more customers to Boleh. I'm not sure it would be enough to justify the cost, but who knows what the future might bring.