Signed up with HostGator

[quattrohead]

Regardless who you use for your webhosting (I recommend HostGator, btw - been with half a dozen hosts and this is the first I'm happy with), I'd recommend Google for your mail hosting. Great uptime, reliability, IMAP...and all FREE

But you can't use your own domain name, right ?
Thats the whole idea of email to me and my customers, make it professional.
Can anyone sign up for google mail now, I might end up changing from yahoo if MS swallow them up !!! Personal use only of course.

[VOIPoTim]

But you can't use your own domain name, right ?
Thats the whole idea of email to me and my customers, make it professional.
Can anyone sign up for google mail now, I might end up changing from yahoo if MS swallow them up !!! Personal use only of course.

They launched that option recently...

http://www.google.com/a

We actually use it for VOIPo internal mail.

[usa2k]

Are you saying that this is free?
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en...sources/setup/

[sbradshaw]

Are you saying that this is free?
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en...sources/setup/

There is a free version and a pay version.

[usa2k]

I see now ...

• Standard Edition includes all of the communication and collaboration applications, support for an unlimited number of user accounts each with 2 gigabytes of email storage, and it's free. If you don't already have an internet domain (like example.com), choose Standard Edition and we'll help you purchase one for $10.

• Premier Edition includes all the benefits of Standard Edition, plus an uptime guarantee for email service, 25 gigabytes of email storage per user, integration APIs and phone support for critical issues. Premier Edition is $50 per user per year, but for a limited time you can try Premier Edition for free for 30 days.

Added emphasis -- looks like free is plenty
Can never figure out how the can afford this.
They don't hit you with adds or adds on a signature ... then that is amazing.

[Brian]

I see now ...

• Standard Edition includes all of the communication and collaboration applications, support for an unlimited number of user accounts each with 2 gigabytes of email storage, and it's free. If you don't already have an internet domain (like example.com), choose Standard Edition and we'll help you purchase one for $10.

• Premier Edition includes all the benefits of Standard Edition, plus an uptime guarantee for email service, 25 gigabytes of email storage per user, integration APIs and phone support for critical issues. Premier Edition is $50 per user per year, but for a limited time you can try Premier Edition for free for 30 days.

Added emphasis -- looks like free is plenty
Can never figure out how the can afford this.
They don't hit you with adds or adds on a signature ... then that is amazing.

Absolutely right, except about 6 months ago they changed the limit from 2GB to the ever-growing limit GMail users have (currently about 6.6GB). :-)

[usa2k]

"- Relevant text-based ads alongside email Standard"
So the interface may have adds ...
Even so, I'm going to test it using a domain I added to HG.