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On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 10:15:46AM -0700, alan smith wrote:
> and..this is EE for what reason? 

Everything Engineering

> but... I've done it both ways....having a linux machine sitting there doing email and web serving, and when it crashes...because eventually everything does (hardware failures, etc) you have to go and to it again.  And even tho running a firewall, the hackers still got in...found they were using it to just crunch some password hacking program.  
>
> So....I gave up on it.  For $6/year, I can have my stuff hosted on a '5-nines' machine, never worry about crashing, etc. Single (or 2?) email addresses, but since they are forwards, not a big deal.  My 'personal' Email costs me .99/mo....to me it just isnt worth the hassle of keeping something running.  5 or 6 years ago...when it wasnt so dirt cheap....then it made sense.

GMail has the ability to let you use your own domain now,
whatever@whoever.com My brother tried it, and couldn't get it working,
but he's not very technical. I haven't tried it myself but if it works
I'd call that just about ideal.


Otherwise I'd recomend tektonic.net For $15/month you get a virtual
private server running Linux that can do all the webhosting and email
you'll ever need. Very reliable as well. You also get a free backup
slot, hit a button and their system makes a full copy of your whole
server which you can then download to backup off-site.

But yeah, if you want to keep things simple, just buy some of the really
cheap email or web hosting out there. But whatever you do, get your
*own* domain name under *your* control. Some of the cheaper hosting
plans will register "your" domain under their name, so then you're
locked in. Keep that seperate and under your control.

$40/year is nothing to make sure no-one can hold your email address
hostage.

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