Email hosting

[Gary]

Some people have had trouble with 1&1, myself, Rik, and others haven't, Gary. It's like everything...

Indeed Sebby I just have bad luck a lot

[Simon]

The point is, none of us should have to be considering this, when an email provision is part of the service we pay IDNet for.  They do know how people feel about this incident, and I feel sure that they won't want anything like this to happen again.

[Gary]

The point is, none of us should have to be considering this, when an email provision is part of the service we pay IDNet for.  They do know how people feel about this incident, and I feel sure that they won't want anything like this to happen again.

Can't say fairer than that, Simon

[Ted]

Signed up this morning for 1&1 email hosting, just waiting for the Domain to be registered and it'll be fully usable. The SMTP server works fine, so i can send mail again. I went for a .eu domain as they wouldn't let me have .wales 

[Gary]

I asked IDnet to set me one up ths morning, heard nothing yet but but its not surprising as they are pretty busy, I just want to be up and running with my new domain and a more robust email 

[Rik]

I do have a scotlandmail address.

[Steve]

What .mac

[Rik]

No, scotlandmail.com. Couldn't resist it.

[Ted]

What .mac

[Ted]

My Domain just came online, all working perfectly. Just need to notify people of my new address\s and i'm all set 

[Rik]

So that's ted@wales.eu then?

[Ted]

Close but no cigar. I doubt many people could guess it, you won't find the domain in an english dictionary

[Rik]

So I need a Welsh dictionary then?

[D-Dan]

Well I know I'm a little late coming back to this, but my domain went live earlier on today (I tested from work and got the holding - full of ads page). Got home tonight and quickly threw together my own holding page for the site. I have to admit to being impressed at how quickly 1&1 got it together, and FTP and HTTP speeds seem excellent at the moment.

Steve

[Sebby]

Glad to hear it, Steve. Their automated systems seem to work well.

[doc_holiday]

Sod this, i'm going to get a domain and have my email hosted elsewhere. I've been looking around and 1&1 appear good and very reasonably priced. I believe some people here use them, are they ok?

Any other recommendations?

A lot of people like 1 & 1... unfortunately, I am one of the ones that has had trouble with them. They do some funky stuff with their DNS if you want to park a domain there. Since you are not going to use them for this, you should be fine. I use a small US based hosting company http://www.eversible.com/ They remind me a lot of IDNet.  Their service is top notch and they really care about their customers.

[Ted]

A lot of people like 1 & 1... unfortunately, I am one of the ones that has had trouble with them. They do some funky stuff with their DNS if you want to park a domain there. Since you are not going to use them for this, you should be fine. I use a small US based hosting company http://www.eversible.com/ They remind me a lot of IDNet.  Their service is top notch and they really care about their customers.

Yes it was just the email i was after, i'll still be using IDnet.com addresses its just an eggs in baskets thing
Email (5 mailboxes) is £0.69 a month + vat = £9.73 inc vat for a year
A .co.uk Domain can be had for £3.52 inc vat a year with a minimum of 2 years
1&1 use their own SMTP server so its entirely independent.
I would expect the chances of both services to be down at the same time to be minimal

[Rik]

It's worth mentioning, Ted that both 1&1 and IDNet have authenticated SMTP servers, so it's possible to switch between them at will.

[Ted]

Indeed they are
1&1 server is "auth.smtp.1and1.co.uk"