We recommend our clients use G Suite, the business services system offered by Google. This will allow you to have the usual Google services like Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, YouTube etc. but using your own domain. So in our case, we use the Dorset.Cloud domain both on this website and on G Suite allowing us to have our emails handled by Google and share calendars and files between staff.
If you choose to host your website with a third party shared hosting provider instead of with Dorset.Cloud they can offer email as part of that package. We strongly advise however that you do not use shared hosting domain-based email. This is because on shared hosting everyone shares a connection and the actions of one can and do, reflect negatively on the other people sharing that system in the eyes of the systems deciding if your emails are spam.
We are happy to set you up on G Suite and do not take a fee from you for doing so. That fee is paid to us by Google. The service costs just £4.60 per user per month, paid directly to Google.
Email Addresses
The primary service clients are looking for when they choose G Suite is email. One point that is often confusing however is the number of accounts needed and the email address options available, the explanation can be found in this blog post.
Cost
As mentioned above the cost for G Suite is £4.60 per user, but what about our charges for transferring? There are no fees from us for existing or new web design or web hosting clients for moving your email across to G Suite as Google compensate us for the referral. If you are not a website design or web hosting client there is a small fee of £25 to administer a transfer to G Suite.
G Suite Default Services:
- Gmail
- Calendar
- Drive
- Hangouts
- Docs
- Sheets
- Slides
- Forms
- Sites
- Keep
- Current
- App Engine