Having helped so many clients set up their web hostings and e-mails with the web hosting company where the sit is hosted…i have come to realize, why use the primitive “free” email provided by the web hosting companies when you can use the best e-mail application from Google: Google Apps for Business; essentially this is simply gmail with your own domain name.

I have recommended this solution to so many friends, and yet everytime i mentioned  this service, they were so surprised that such great thing existed.  With Google Apps for Business, you can essentially host up to 25 user accounts for free, and anything above that you would have to pay for their service.  My honest opinon is that even if you have to pay, it will be worth every penny, as Gmail has one of the best Spam filters out there.

The best feature i liked about Google mail is that i can actually point multiple domains names to the same mailbox, so i can have jerry@domainA.com and jerry@domainB.com point to the same mailbox, and i can send from either addresses. Pretty cool imo.

Drop me an email if you need assistance in setting this up.

Microsoft’s Office Live and Yahoo’s Business Mail offers similar features, I would say Yahoo is second to Google, but you would have to pay for it, as for Microsoft Live mail, it offers similar service for free, but as a veteran user of hotmail/live mail, I suggest you just go with Google Apps for Business.

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