New Thoughts on Your Email

If you’ve set up your email under your domain name (such as yourname@yourdomain.com), then read on…

If you have your email set up this way, then what you may or may not know is that you are storing your email in the same place (aka The Server) that you store your site. So, if you get lots of email, and you like to leave it sitting around for a millennium or so, it’s eating up space you could be using for your website. This is not problem if you a generous hosting plan (like our Mucho plan, or our new Phat plan), but the question you might ask yourself is: why pay to store email when you can get it for free?

If you have a Google email (gmail) account, or don’t mind getting one, we can forward all your email there so it doesn’t live on your website server. You can send mail that says it’s from yourname@yourdomain.com, but it’ll be coming from gmail, and no one will be the wiser.

Google will give you 3 gigabytes of storage, which is basically saying “unlimited,” since you could be storing emails since Arpanet.

Yahoo Plus! has the same capabilities, but you have to pay $20/year for it. Still pretty cheap, plus their email really has unlimited storage.

So, let us know if this is something you’d like, and we can do it for you, or we’ll let you know how to do it.