Google Apps for Your Domain

[mavjop]

So, it started with "gmail for your domain". It was (and is) pretty awesome. There've always been a few minor annoyances/lacking features[1], but, really, it blew the lid off using my useless frickin' hosting provider for e-mail. You all know gmail[2], I'm sure.

What's more, though ... there's basically three things that you need if you have a

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[mavjop]

Hm, I kind of figured domain registration as an unmentioned pre-requisite. Or rather, it was so obvious to me (and I already own domains, so I tend to think more of hosting for existing stuff than about registration as part of getting things up and running) that I didn't consider it.

Good point.

I have never looked at registrar DNS hosting services, so I don't know how much it would cost or whether it would be completely configurable to set up any way you want or annoyingly restrictive (either in the name of being user friendly or just due to crapness).

Definitely something for people to consider though. :)

[wy]

Dragonfeathers.org has been google-hosted for a while. <3 :P

[wy]

Also, you can have 'all email to this domain' going to one account, so say, I can have 'livejournal@dragonfeathers.org', etc, all going to me.

Also, you can set it up so that 'mail.dragonfeathers.org' automatically goes to googlemail.

[mavjop]

Also, you can have 'all email to this domain' going to one account, so say, I can have 'livejournal@dragonfeathers.org', etc, all going to me.

You can certainly do that. You can even have a set of user accounts and then have everything else go to one account.

Also, you can set it up so that 'mail.dragonfeathers.org' automatically goes to googlemail.

Yeah, I set that up and was extremely disappointed that mail.mydomain.foo redirects to http://mail.google.com/a/mydomain.foo/ and not https://mail.google.com/a/mydomain.foo/. :( Why? WHY?! I don't want to use http to access my e-mail when I can use https. Unfortunately, going to https://mail.mydomain.foo/ simply results in going nowhere at all, so basically mail.mydomain.foo is totally useless. I would not recommend using it to any users.

[mavjop]

E-mail, or web, or both?

I've had my domain's e-mail handled by Google since the very very early days of "gmail for your domain".

It's the web hosting part of it that's new to me. I'm not planning to use it for my main domain, but I am going to use it for some stuff.