But I do care about control and privacy. I have a few clients who I likely will be moving to Google Apps but it's not really what I'm looking for. That's $50/year per user, which is a fine price for the amount of space you get but far too much for me when I would much rather divide that 30GB into 30x1GB mailboxes. That being said, it looks like their alias features are very agreeable (30 addresses, 20 domains).

Ahh, I did not understand you wanted service for multiple users. It sounds like price is your main requirement.

>>Rackspace, Fastmail, and Namecheap

These are slightly lower quality than gmail IMO.