Ravi, A Capitalist

Business these days works purely on mails. Except for the so called conventional businesses such as trading cement and pipes for construction at very low levels, emails may not be used, but anyone and everyone has got an email id, and a computer with an internet connection. The internet has become a place that has a highly growing demand for bandwidth, with the growing number of computers attached to it.

Free emaiils are suitable for induviduals. Everyone provides you with a free mail box and monetizes yoru mails with their advertisments in the footer. Gmail is a bit decent, hey dont attach any ads in the mail, but you could see ads in the inbox, ads from adsense, once that are relevent to the contents of the mail. Its not just once or twice that I have clicked on the ads displayed on google, and I have returned a considerable amount of money to google for their providing me with a free mail box.

Corporates dont like ads on their mails. And they cant send out mails from free mail boxes. So even if they dont have a website, they spend $10 a year to get a domain name and park it in some hosting. The best that a linux hosting can offer for free is smart mail or horde. And if you wish to switch isps, switching mailboxes would be a problem. Whats the best way to keep your mails safe and permanant?

Go for Google Apps. At google.com/a, you can get an unlimited number of free mail boxes to your domain name, and all you need to do is to change your MX entries as required on the hosting side, and no matter how many times your HSP’s server goes down for any reason, your mails are safe, and not a single mail would be bounced. Also, google offers an ever growing mail box, so you do not have to delete another mail. And, above all, to the best of most people’s knowledge, true spam blocking is offered only by google. Not a single message that you wish to be on the inbox gets into spam. And if you try to send spam, with 500 ids in the BCC field, they will block all your mails, and it will not go out, and you will not get a bounced report. So no one gets affected. If you over do that ofcourse you will be blocked.

When you change ISPs, you just need to add the MX records for google, and its very easy to do in a cpanel hosting, just follow the instructions there, and your mails will not be damaged in any ways. There will be ads in the free edition, as no one can give you anything for free. Even if you dont click on it, they will manage with the money that you get them for the impressions, and there is another package where they offer you a fully loaded account that will cost you $50 a year per user id, which includes phone support as well apart from several other things. And it gives you a lot more space as well. If you think you cannot tolerate ads, just pay them $50, why why pay, when you can get it all for free? A few ads running on the right side should not distract you much right?

And even if you pay this $50, you will find that its a lot cheaper from any mail server thats available outside. And google is always reliable, and there is not a single downtime that I have seen in their mail servers, and u ca use this account for ages and ages to come without any fear of loss of data or anything at ll. And the best of all is that your mail box size would be ever growing