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Do your business have a web hosting provider? If so, you should be able to obtain mail service for your domain via your hosting provider. Otherwise, please provide some information to flesh out the details of this issue.
Yeah. We can’t compete with GoDaddy. We’ll host one domain with two mailboxes for $30/month to start...more if more than 10GB of disk space is needed...
Told the kid at Godaddy 'Here is a lesson in life.NEVER put down the competition.It just
introduces a negative to the situation.Bad salesmanship.
2 Sounds like you are soliciting.This is the last place on earth I expected that.
The Linux crowd used to be mostly intellectual types of very high character.
That is why I come here to ask certain kinds of questions.
I hope this is a misunderstanding.
I wasn’t soliciting, exactly...that would be a violation of the LQ rules...nor was I putting down GoDaddy. We can’t compete with them because we can’t offer services at their price point. We don’t have 10 gazillion customers to spread the costs over. That doesn’t imply any fault with them.
I was providing a price point for comparison. We’re very small, but we’re very good.
GoDaddy are likely one of the better choices for your business. You should also look at 1and1, bluehost, hostgator, rackspace and several others you can find by putting “web hosting providers” into your favorite search engine. Most, if not all, will be less expensive than we are.
You asked for recommendations. I recommended me, because that’s what I do. I’m a web hosting provider. I did it while also pointing out I’m relatively expensive.
In my experience, the “Linux crowd” is pretty much the same as any other group. The LQ crowd, on the othe hand, is as you characterized it...mostly.
So yes. A misunderstanding. Perhaps someone else will jump in with a meaningful recommendation for you.
Have you checked for reviews on Yelp?
I used to use 1and1 (for personal stuff, as I do not own a business). Only reason I left them is cost; it kept creping up. So, yes they have special rates when you sign up and when the term ends, price goes up, and then up again...
At my previous job, we used register.com (only for domain name registration), which I had to call couple of times, and they were quick (little to no hold). I did not get bounced around, and anyone I talked to was knowledgeable enough to answer questions.
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