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eb's avatar
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Which hosted email service do you use?

I want to set up some email addresses for the various domains I own. Currently I have a few email addresses hosted at Hover.com and that is great except that your domains also have to be registered at Hover. I have a lot of my domains registered at Cloudflare so using Hover for those domains isn't possible. I also don't want my email service connected with my hosting or registrar. Keeping them separate makes changing hosts/registrars less painful.

I don't need much space as the emails get pulled off the server and into my Gmail account.

I also don't want to spend too much. Hover's prices are nice at $20/year ($1.67/mo) per email.

Rackspace seems to be the only other service that is similar at a price of $2.99/mo.

Any other services or options I'm unaware of?

What does everyone do for email?

Thanks! Eric

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tisuchi's avatar

If you are looking for something FREE, you can try Yandex. I use this for my personal uses, without spending money. :)

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fylzero's avatar

I use Hover for my domains and for email mainly because of the price and I've found them very reliable, even though their site interface can be wonky sometimes.

When I made this decision I wound up transferring all my domains to hover and I think it was worth doing. Super simple interface for setting up and managing domains... I pull all my email accounts into a single free Gmail account... kind of a great setup to me.

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eb's avatar
Level 7

@fylzero Yeah, I feel the same as you about Hover. My only issue is that I've moved a bunch of domains from Hover to Cloudflare because they offer domain renewals at wholesale. So my .com domains went from $13/yr to $8/yr. I'd like to keep my domains registered through Hover for that reason.

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