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Old 17 Apr 2018, 11:33 AM   #25
pjwalsh
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There's widespread misconception about 'domain hosting'. The GoDaddy's and Gandhi's would love people to think that in addition to registering the domain name through them, giving them your DNS, web and email hosting as well is the 'simplest' and preferred route, if not necessary. Not at all.

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Originally Posted by TenFour View Post
It is probably more secure to separate domain host and email provider and website host since you then have all your eggs in one basket. If something happens with the company you can lose control over both your domain and your email. With the email hosted by another provider you avoid that issue
There's that. And the constrained email functionality of a domain provider.

Forwarding email from the domain provider is common but definitely suboptimal and awkward in use, which is what OP has been doing. Not simple.

OP wants aliases, superior webmail, email import/transfer, the ability to point his domain to the company's facebook, and is willing to pay for a good service. The solution I suggested is simple, meets his needs, and gives all the flexibility in an email service he could want. Including many aliases (600!), subdomain addressing, WebDAV access to file storage, website redirects, and much more - extremely useful options not offered by 'all in one' domain sellers. Not to mention the superior 2FA & other security features.

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@rscaramelo - if you decide to go with Fastmail, all you have to do is edit the Namecheap NS nameservers to FM's as above.. you do not need to set an MX value.

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