Hosting email only?

[JonMad]

What's the best solution to this? My wife's website is a single, static page with a link to a cloud appointment booking service (she's a hairdresser). She gets hardly any traffic. We're paying around $100/year for website hosting and email, including a crappy webmail client. They also manage the domain name registration at another cost.

I was thinking of putting the website onto AWS S3 as I have an AWS account, which wouldn't cost very much (probably). That leaves the question of hosting email. There's https://aws.amazon.com/workmail/features/ which may or may not be what I'm looking for. Thoughts? Thanks.

[Beany]

I think you can still get google business email (which will hook up to a custom domain) pretty cheap or free. Set up the account and MX records and google will work out the rest.

Whatever you do, do not attempt to self host your email, it's not worth the bother any more.

[JonMad]

I think you can still get google business email (which will hook up to a custom domain) pretty cheap or free. Set up the account and MX records and google will work out the rest.

Whatever you do, do not attempt to self host your email, it's not worth the bother any more.

Thanks Beany.

Looks like $6/month as part of G Suite (G spot?) if I'm reading it right https://www.fundera.com/blog/gmail-for-business
AWS's option $4/month. https://aws.amazon.com/workmail/pricing/

[drcarlos]

I think you can still get google business email (which will hook up to a custom domain) pretty cheap or free. Set up the account and MX records and google will work out the rest.

Whatever you do, do not attempt to self host your email, it's not worth the bother any more.

Thanks Beany.

Looks like $6/month as part of G Suite (G spot?) if I'm reading it right https://www.fundera.com/blog/gmail-for-business
AWS's option $4/month. https://aws.amazon.com/workmail/pricing/

I looked into this when Google were threatening to pull free Gsuite and found that Zoho seemed to offer the best VFM in the area for our needs. They were $2 per user where google were about $9 (we needed vanity address, groups and forwarding which meant the basic accounts weren't suitable).

[JonMad]

Ah, Zoho, that's looking just the ticket. Thanks.

[simon_g]

I get email forwarding included with my domain, she may have the same thing in the options.

It goes to my gmail, then I set outgoing mail to use the (secure, authenticated) SMTP server at the domain host, using my own domain. So I can use the native gmail app on my phone, webmail etc.

This looks like it would do the same sort of thing if you want everything on AWS: https://nealalan.github.io/AWS-Email-Forwarder/

[Gavster]

To reiterate two things already mentioned in this thread:

1) Cheapest option. I have a placeholder website and the domain is with Google Domains which has a catchall for email forwarding. It costs nothing to get all emails pinged straight through to one of my other email addresses. Obvs can't reply from the original address, but it's free and easy.

2) Second cheapest option. Zoho are definitely the cheapest out there for hosting a single email address.