Ask HN: Alternatives to Google-Apps Custom Domain Email Hosting • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Google-Apps Custom Domain Email Hosting

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Post by xur17 » Thu, Oct 30, 2014, 5:02 PM UTC

ecesena wrote: post #6

philip1209 wrote: post #4

I wish there was a simple domain email service targeted at individuals rather than businesses. Allow wildcard forwarding of email at the domain to specified email address (e.g. for parked domains or retired ones). Allow arbitrary smtp access at the domain for any email using the same password (plus DKIM & SPF support). I'd pay Google Apps prices for something simple that accomplished this.

With Google Domains you get 100 email forwards and one of them could be * (I'm using this config). The cost is just the domain registration, e.g. $12/y for a .com.

Namecheap also does something similar: https://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx...

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Google-Apps Custom Domain Email Hosting

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Post by wnevets » Thu, Oct 30, 2014, 5:10 PM UTC

google domains

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Google-Apps Custom Domain Email Hosting

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Oct 30, 2014, 5:11 PM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Google-Apps Custom Domain Email Hosting

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Post by colinbartlett » Thu, Oct 30, 2014, 5:12 PM UTC

fredsted wrote: post #19

Virtualmin: http://virtualmin.com Setup a supported Linux distribution on any cloud provider (eg. Linode, DigitalOcean) and run the Virtualmin 1-liner on it. 10 minutes later you'll have a control panel where you can create domains. Each domain can have Web sites, email accounts, git repositories, databases, DNS management, and more. Don't want to use half of those things? Turn them off. You can add as many as you wa…

While I like the suggestion of something so easy and quick to setup, I dislike the idea that it will be my responsibility to maintain any sort of hosted VM.

How long before I'm scrambling to patch updates or recover some kind of hack?

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Google-Apps Custom Domain Email Hosting

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Post by jonnw » Thu, Oct 30, 2014, 5:16 PM UTC

I recommend Zoho. Been using it for a while now, no regrets.

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Google-Apps Custom Domain Email Hosting

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Post by vinayp10 » Thu, Oct 30, 2014, 5:16 PM UTC

You can use outlook from microsoft for free...

http://www.process.st/2014/04/small-business-in-the-cloud-go...

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Google-Apps Custom Domain Email Hosting

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Post by omgmog » Thu, Oct 30, 2014, 5:19 PM UTC

I've been using "Atmail Cloud" for about 18 months now and have had no issues, I've got about 20 domains using the service. https://www.atmail.com/product

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Google-Apps Custom Domain Email Hosting

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Post by bruno_rocca » Thu, Oct 30, 2014, 5:19 PM UTC

Use zoho for several clients for under 10 for free, but looking for the next level up to 25 as well. Must be something other than fast mail and Google

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Google-Apps Custom Domain Email Hosting

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Post by godDLL » Thu, Oct 30, 2014, 5:28 PM UTC

vital101 wrote: post #18

I've been using https://www.zoho.com/ and its been working out quite well. Although I only need one account at the moment.

Another vote for Zoho, should really be your first option as it's free.

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Google-Apps Custom Domain Email Hosting

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Post by Mithrandir » Thu, Oct 30, 2014, 5:30 PM UTC

vinayp10 wrote: post #26

You can use outlook from microsoft for free... http://www.process.st/2014/04/small-business-in-the-cloud-go...

Microsoft ended free custom domain support earlier this year [0]. To use custom domains with Outlook.com, you either have to have already configured Outlook to use a domain name or pay $5/user/month for Office 365 [1].

0: http://microsoft-news.com/microsoft-ends-custom-domain-suppo...

1: http://products.office.com/en-us/business/compare-office-365...