I use and recommend Nearlyfreespeech.net. It's the ideal host for low-volume sites, and (probably) a serviceable host for high-volume ones.
Managing applicationsI can't be bothered to maintain a mail server, so I use Google Apps. To set up a domain to use Google Apps for email: - Sign up for a Google Apps account for the domain.
- Configure your MX (Mail eXchange) records at your host to use Google's email servers
- Google has instructions for NearlyFreeSpeech.net
- General instructions are at the Google Apps help page for configuring email delivery
- To make logging into the domain-specific Gmail account easier, you can create a special subdomain for logging into email
- Here's Google's instructions
- Basically, at your host you create a CNAME record that looks like this (note the trailing dot, required at NFS.net):
mail.mydomain.com | CNAME | ghs.google.com. |
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