[ale] Preferred domain registrars?

[James Sumners]

I'm looking into new hosting solutions as well. I will likely post a
new thread it later.

As far as moving email accounts. I would continue hosting the email on
the current host until everything is configured on the new host. If
you are doing IMAP, then I would have people download their mail to
their local machine in the interim. That way, when you change the MX
record, they won't lose any mail and can re-upload it to the new
server.

In my situation, though, I'm going to look at moving my email hosting
to Google. I believe their free Gmail for domains will work for my
business. If so, I won't have to worry about moving email in the
future. Hosting email is a royal pain.

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 7:45 AM, Geoffrey <lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:
> I'm using 1and1 and I will say, I'm looking to move.  Downloading email
> is slow, very slow.  I've got clients who complain about the webmail
> interface.
>
> So, I'm looking for some insights.  Say I have a domain that has 20
> email addresses associated with it.  If I transfer the domain, won't
> those email addresses bounce until such time I set them up on the new
> server?  I am having 1and1 host the email and websites.
>
> Further, how does one go about hosting on a different provider?  I'm
> assuming folks are registering one provider and hosting email and web on
> another?
>
> I'm looking for insights here, so disregard my ignorance and enlighten me?



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