Re: FN-FORUM: hosting for the UK?

date posted 21st January 2008 21:03


On 21 Jan 2008, at 21:02, Dom Latter wrote:

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> On Monday 21 January 2008 20:34:55 [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
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>> Also, maybe someone can clarify the following for me: when I buy a
>> domain name from somewhere, for ex. www.clairetoche.com, and a =20
>> hosting
>> package from a different source, who is responsible for emails?? It
>> probably sounds like a basic question but I keep getting confused,
>> especially when hosts offer email accounts as part of their deal. =20
>> If I
>> already own a domain and therefore unlimited emails, do I still =20
>> need to
>> get a hosting package which offers email accounts? I am currently
>
> It all depends... in the past I've registered many domains with
> 123-reg and they provide a catch-all email forwarding service,
> in which case the webhost only has to provide webbery.
>
> NB you could have domain name registered with company A,
> DNS provided by company B, web hosted at company C,
> email handled by company D...


doing that, for a fair few clients as it happens....



NB catch-all email forwarding is a sure-fire recipe for spam as the =20
spammers have random email generators that create thousands of =20
messages to any domain...

p.s. I normally sell my clients space on my UK based Shared server.

you can get a decent UK based VPS for =A330 a month and sell space on it =
=20
- want some?

;o)=