Hosting Email with Webhost or Email Hosting

running on empty on 11/10/2023 - 04:18
Last edited 20/10/2023 - 21:42

I curently have my email hosted via webhosting on namecheap (approx $80AUD per year) , with a webpage I no longer use. I have about 8 email addresses created on my plan, some for my own use and some for family members. I have considered moving to email hosting however I have found pricing to be worse than what I pay for full webhosting, having to pay per mailbox just increases the cost way more than what I pay for full webhosting with abilty to create multiple email accounts

I am wondering what I am missing, I understand the idea of plus (+) addressing and I think I understand aliases but with other family members requing accounts it doesnt suite. Am I right to keep my email hosted on a full webhosting package for lower pricing.

UPDATE: I've moved my domain to Clickhost, and set up email hosting. I am using alias addresses and everything is working great so far (and much cheaper)

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  • HardQuiz on 11/10/2023 - 06:39

    Start asking family members to contribute $$$

  • soan papdi on 11/10/2023 - 09:32
    +1

    You have a third option, to continue your domain with namecheap and enable email forwarding. The page even lists multiple forwarding targets, so jim@ and lisa@ can forward to different gmail addresses. The next step is to enable a new sender address in gmail. If you’re all outlook or yahoo users, not sure if they allow custom from addresses without a fee.

    https://support.google.com/mail/answer/22370?hl=en

    https://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx…

    • No on 11/10/2023 - 11:45

      I do this with a few domains on namecheap, it works well.

    • running on empty on 11/10/2023 - 19:32

      Thank for the idea, my domain is actually with vodien, butvwill research this idea

      • Kyle-K on 11/10/2023 - 20:38

        You need to find a better provider if that's the case. Personally, I wouldn't recommend namecheap either.

        If a .au Clickhost for every other extension Porkbun. If you're not experienced with domain name management stay away from Cloudflare.

  • ldd-mn on 11/10/2023 - 09:57

    Zoho Mail gives you 5 accounts for free with 5GB of storage each, and you can add aliases to each of those accounts for more email addresses. Also look at moving your domain elsewhere, to something like Porkbun or Cloudflare.

    • Chaddy on 11/10/2023 - 13:45
      -1

      Dedicated email hosting with domains is generally aimed at businesses with employees its not setup for family members to have an email address.
      I'd just set family members up with Gmail or something similar. Or you can get cheap email only hosting without a website from some providers VentraIP have this as an example where its around $3 per mailbox and you could use their free dns hosting to point the domain at the mail server.
      If you have a id.au domain that could be a good option.
      Otherwise if you want a website with dedicated mailboxes attached then pricing can add up.

    • running on empty on 11/10/2023 - 19:35

      My domain is actually with vodien from years ago when it was cheap domains, i will look at my options. Thanks for the ideas

    • running on empty on 16/10/2023 - 00:36

      My domain requires an ABN, which is now expired and not sure it can be moved without it.

      • Kyle-K on 16/10/2023 - 01:08

        You should be able to move it perfectly fine, however, you should probably look to resolve the ABN issue as a welfare check triggered by someone or an audit of the name space could trigger you'll need to bring it up to compliance but the transfer process typically does not trigger a recheck.

        • running on empty on 16/10/2023 - 01:42

          thanks for the info, I have been avoid the domain transfer for this reason but maybe ill give it a try

  • Kyle-K on 11/10/2023 - 11:28

    Take a look at the email wiki on whirlpool quite a few options there to choose from I would say you probably would be best suited with something listed in Tier 3 e.g. something from Clickhost or DreamIT

  • lunebyes on 11/10/2023 - 19:42

    Change the DNS to CloudFlare and then enable email forwarding in CloudFlare to a Gmail account. All completely free.

    • running on empty on 11/10/2023 - 21:14

      Can you reply from an alias address this way?

      • Kyle-K on 11/10/2023 - 21:39

        Yes, but it will use phrasing like sent on behalf of and give the originating Gmail address. There is a workaround to that, but it involves not using forwarding but can be done relatively cheaply.

        • running on empty on 16/10/2023 - 00:34

          I have followed your advice and set up a different one of my parked domains. It works well for receiving email, unfornately sending email is not allowed through cloudfare and requires email hosting somewhere to get outgoing smtp mail address.

          • Kyle-K on 16/10/2023 - 01:06

            @running on empty:

            It works well for receiving email, unfornately sending email is not allowed through cloudfare and requires email hosting somewhere to get outgoing smtp mail address.

            Yep, as I said if you do choose to try and send email the headers will include the originating Gmail address.

  • running on empty on 20/10/2023 - 21:45
    +1

    I've updated this post to say, I moved domains to clickhost and set up email hosting with them.They have been great and suppport were very helpful with issues I had with importing from my old host. Happy so far (and cheaper)

    • Kyle-K on 24/10/2023 - 17:17

      Thanks for keeping us updated.

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