Buying professional email addresses

[ryan4444]

My site is wordpress hosted with 123 reg.
I have brought the domain and now want 3 emails to match.
I went on 123 reg and its £180 a year for business email.

I have another website through Microsoft 365 and I pay £5 a month for the website and email hosting. trouble is the site I designed through Microsoft is very outdated and limited as to what you can do.

 

[fisicx]

Simple answer: don't use 123reg or Microsoft or any other site builder service.

I remember ages ago when you were advised to get a proper site built. If you had then you could have as many emails as you wanted. For £30/year as part of your hosting.

Avoid 123reg for everything.

 

[Claire Freshney]

I provide email addresses to Clients for free when they sign up to a hosting package, which are relatively cheap. You can also have as many email addresses as you like e.g. hello@ ... accounts@

 

[ryan4444]

I was advised by someone on here for 123 reg. what is wrong with them, what have I got myself into?

 

[matlob]

I would just keep your domains registered with 123 and then use a separate hosting company.

I use vidahost and there basic package allows for 6 websites for £2.99 per month and you can then set up your email accounts on there.

Depends on your hosting requirements but that is the route I would take. They will also move your websites across for you free of charge. You may though be locked in with the microsoft one if it can't be moved.

 

[Claire Freshney]

123 reg is fine for domain purchases

 

[fisicx]

Whoever advised you to use 123 for hosting was wrong. But even if you do then using their site builder is even worse. It means you are stuck with a site that is limited in scope, difficult to rank and looks pants on a phone.

The only way out is to get some help and start again with a fully supported platform on some decent hosting. A recent client did just that and their site has already paid for itself in new leads.

 

[Claire Freshney]

You sound bitter about his decision to go with 123 reg. Lets be helpful and try and help Ryan oppose to making small digs.

Why not provide Ryan with the details of a fully supported platform?

 

[fisicx]

Not bitter at all. All Ryan has to do is find a decent host and get Wordpress installed. He can copy across all the content from his existing site and once the new site is ready to go, update the nameservers. The learning curve is quite steep but not insurmountable.

Not sure why you think I'm having a dig.

 

[Alan]

Are the 3 emails for three distinct people, or is it one account & aliases (e.g. sales@ info@ and person@ all from one account)

I am a Google Apps partner, so I'm biased but if it is one account from Google it is £3.30 a month or £33 per year (if it is three people then it would be £99 per year ) ( and you get all the standard extras like 30GB cloud storage, office productivity tools etc in the cost)

Google is a massive provider of email (world leading 550 million users) as you know, and if you are a paid for business user, there is no question of the data being used for ad preferences etc like it is in the free consumer emails from Microsoft & Google ( Google Apps is used by some very significant enterprise & public sector clients )

I urge you to set up a free trial (link in my signature) or indeed if you want my partner services (costs the same as going direct to Google ) then PM me.

 

[ryan4444]

Heart Internet for hosting?

 

[ryan4444]

Or host gator? Which is American though

 

[fisicx]

Stick with a UK host and don't go for the cheapest.

You rely on good quality tools to do your job. I doubt you use a £10 ladder from Lidl to get to the top of the tree so don't skimp on your website. It's an investment not a cost so get someone who knows what they are doing to help set it up. In the same way people use you to pollard a tree rather than do it themselves - they want the job done properly.

 

[Simon Dunant]

we use inmotionhosting who although are based on the east coast of the US, are the bees knees on support, and we have unlimited email addresses on our server (self hosted wordpress websites).

Bad deal from 123 reg if they charge £180 for 3 email addresses, thats half the cost of my entire virtual private server a year from inmotion hosting... :O

Use 123 reg for the domains but host your websites elsewhere if you can, although avoid Fasthosts as a hosting company like the plague (speaking from personal experience...)