Personal email - what do you use?

scottalanmiller

I use my own domain. These days I just keep it on my Office 365 work account but traditionally I pay to host it on Rackspace.

Reid Cooper

Gmail and Outlook are probably the best free services. Yahoo isn't horrible as an interface but it is just not secure.

scottalanmiller

@MattKing said:

I had an old domain laying around; I transferred everything over to a gmail business account for ~$3-4/month. It's nice because I have complete control over my personal-work, personal, and work google accounts through android when i'm checking calendars, mail, etc.

Rackspace doesn't have all of the bells and whistles but is only $1 per month!

JaredBusch

I've had my own domain since 1999 and I'm much to lazy to change it all anymore.

I move the hosting around, but the mail went to Google apps many years ago on one of the free plans that no longer exists.

For anyone without a domain, i always recommended Gmail prior to Outlook.com/Office365. now I tell people either.

Dashrender

@scottalanmiller said:

I use my own domain. These days I just keep it on my Office 365 work account but traditionally I pay to host it on Rackspace.

You can put a secondary domain on an Office365 account? As for you actually doing it, I guess it's a perk being who you are in your company.

JaredBusch

@Dashrender said:

You can put a secondary domain on an Office365 account? As for you actually doing it, I guess it's a perk being who you are in your company.

You can add as many domains as you want to an O365 account.it is just Exchange. Now, I am sure there is appoint they may charge more, but I haven't looked.

MattKing

@scottalanmiller said:

@MattKing said:

I had an old domain laying around; I transferred everything over to a gmail business account for ~$3-4/month. It's nice because I have complete control over my personal-work, personal, and work google accounts through android when i'm checking calendars, mail, etc.

Rackspace doesn't have all of the bells and whistles but is only $1 per month!

I was looking at that, but then i looked at my android phone and sighed; I want it to sync.

Once Rimu offers CentOS7 next week I'm thinking of moving everything but my O365 work email over to a 100% VPN/OwnCloud setup. Probably just VPN.

scottalanmiller

@Dashrender said:

@scottalanmiller said:

I use my own domain. These days I just keep it on my Office 365 work account but traditionally I pay to host it on Rackspace.

You can put a secondary domain on an Office365 account? As for you actually doing it, I guess it's a perk being who you are in your company.

Yes. We have many domains on ours. NTG.co and niagaratechgroup.com for example. Anyone can have that at NTG if they want. Doesn't cost NTG anything.

Dashrender

Considering the changes coming to the Small Business version of Office365, should I wait to setup an account until that is complete? or will the transition be easy/unnoticed?

If I don't need to wait, Any reason not to go with Office 365 Small Business vs Enterprise E1?

Dashrender

This link is has a pretty nice graph of the new version coming soon.
http://blogs.office.com/2014/07/09/evolving-office-365-plans-for-small-and-midsized-businesses/

JaredBusch

so
$5 for Email + OneDrive + Sharepoint + Lync
$8.25 for Office + OneDrive
$12.5 for Office + Email + OneDrive + Sharepoint + Lync

Everything is only a savings of $0.75 per month, but better than no savings.

Carnival Boy

I've just signed up for O365 small business. Prior to that I used Hotmail (old skool) and just set up forwarding of all my various personal domains to my Hotmail account. I didn't see any valid reason to wait for the new plans to come out - I expect the transition to be easy.

Dashrender

Saving a few bucks might be one reason to wait, also the added features - you might not get them for months after the transition.

I use gmail for the most part and Zoho for my personal business, mainly just because it has active sync and is free for your own domain (since Gmail/outlook no longer are)

jasonh

I've been using my own domain for over 10 years, mainly to avoid the dilemma you are in (changing e-mail addresses when I'm not happy with an ISP)

I'm currently using Google Apps for my domain's e-mail (I got one of the free business accounts before they discontinued it) but actively working on migrating to something else. I still haven't decided what I will switch to, I just know I don't want to use Google anymore due to privacy concerns (which were always a concern in my back of my mind when I signed up for it, but I felt more lax about it back then ..)

scottalanmiller

@thecreativeone91 said:

I use gmail for the most part and Zoho for my personal business, mainly just because it has active sync and is free for your own domain (since Gmail/outlook no longer are)

Zoho for business is free? What all features come with that?

Zoho has a few people here in the community too.

@scottalanmiller said:

@thecreativeone91 said:

I use gmail for the most part and Zoho for my personal business, mainly just because it has active sync and is free for your own domain (since Gmail/outlook no longer are)

Zoho for business is free? What all features come with that?

Zoho has a few people here in the community too.

http://www.zoho.com/mail/zohomail-pricing2.html

for 10 people it's free.

scottalanmiller

@thecreativeone91 cool, I had no idea.