Re:Google Reader shutting down
by coldpie on Thursday March 14, 2013 @09:24AM
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I tried having my own domain's mail for a while, and got burned hard when my (cheap) webhost's servers were down for a couple of days. It's hard to argue with free, easy, and reliable when the alternative is costly, difficult, and more likely to go down.
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You don't have to host the email yourself. Just grab your own domain, set up a free gmail account, and forward all the email from your domain to the gmail account. Configure gmail to always send replies as from [email protected].
What this does is eliminate the biggest point of lock-in to gmail. In the worst case scenario you can switch to another email provider with the flick of a DNS entry, no worries about losing your email address.
Re:Google Reader shutting down
by EduardoBautista on Thursday March 14, 2013 @01:57PM
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I switched to http://domains.live.com from google apps for my personal email. The new outlook.com is a LOT cleaner than Gmail.