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Josh McCormack joshmccormack-at-travelersdiary.com |nyphp dev/internal 
group use| wrote:

> I took a look at nearlyfreespeech.net. They look good. I saw they 
> don't handle email at all. What do you do for email hosting with sites 
> you have with them?
>
> Josh
>
> DarkWulf wrote:
>
>> I host a few smaller sites at www.nearlyfreespeech.net
>>
>> I like them because they have always struck me as very honest people, 
>> and surprisingly un-bottom-line orientated. You pay for the hard 
>> drive space and bandwidth you use, and thats about it. ($0.02/day for 
>> hosting a domain, $0.01/month/megabyte for storage, $1.00/gigabyte 
>> for bandwidth)
>>
>> Strong caveat is that you really do have to know what you're doing. 
>> Their control panel is sometimes confusing. There is no support for 
>> "my script doesn't work" and so on and so forth.
>>

You can purchase mail services from most registrars, ISPs hosting 
companies. You just manage the MX records separate from the rest of the 
domain records.

I manage most of my sites that way. I manage the DNS myself (via a web 
interface), outsource the email hosting, outsource the web hosting. A 
decision to move a site to colo doesn't mean reconfiguring mail servers, 
a change in mail handling doesn't bother the websites, DNS changes are 
justthat: DNS changes, etc.

If you tie your websites and mail functions together, obviously you have 
a need for tighter integration, but I am comfortable using subdomains 
for that when necessary.

-=john andrews