[plug] google apps for free email and web hosting

Chris Caston caston at arach.net.au
Wed Nov 15 16:14:24 WST 2006


On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 18:06 +0800, Gavin Chester wrote:
> I just became aware of 'google apps' www.google.com/a/ as an alternative
> to paying for an email-only account and/or relying on dubious free
> hosting for your registered domains.  That is, if you have a domain that
> is parked at a registrar somewhere while you are considering building a
> site for it, you can set it up to be used for email and have it hosted
> on google apps for nothing.  
> 
> After following the VERY helpful procedures from the google site to
> change my MX and CNAME records with my registrar I put up a basic
> site/home page in next to no time and can open up to 25 email aliases
> under my domain.  If you want to check it out as an example, try this
> domain of mine that I tested it out on:
> www.woodcraftgallery.com  - and it gives me fully functioning email
> addresses such as gavin[at]woodcraftgallery.com.
> 
> The extra good thing is that the email can be accessed by POP, just as
> with your regular gmail accounts, so I can pull the mail straight into
> my local mail client (evolution).  Can't see any minuses with this so
> far - now I know I won't be renewing that email-only account with
> godaddy ;-)
> 
> Gavin 


Thanks Gavin,

You can now get in touch with me at firstname at lastname dot id dot
thiscountry thanks to google apps.

The rest of my family with the same lastname will soon have accounts
there as well.

best regards,

Chris




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