What are you doing for email services and domain name?

[stormgirl_lp]

My primary email is on a free service since being burned by a domain registrar years ago. But security for free email services is meh...

I'm thinking of purchasing a new domain and setting up O365 Business Basic.

My portfolio address is macroblume.zenfolio.com. So I could go with me@macroblume.com or me@firstlastphotography.com.

This domain will go onto my Info Tech resume as well...unless I opt for two different domains, but that seems like overkill.

Do any of you have custom domains? Is photography your side hustle? What do youdo for email and portfolio?

Thanks!

 

[RDKirk]

My primary email is on a free service since being burned by a domain registrar years ago. But security for free email services is meh...

I'm thinking of purchasing a new domain and setting up O365 Business Basic.

My portfolio address is macroblume.zenfolio.com. So I could go with me@macroblume.com or me@firstlastphotography.com.

This domain will go onto my Info Tech resume as well...unless I opt for two different domains, but that seems like overkill.

Do any of you have custom domains? Is photography your side hustle? What do youdo for email and portfolio?

Thanks!

If you want to present a professional face to the world (whether full time or part time), you should get a personal domain name.

In most cases, you should secure other domain names that are reasonable error-results for your domain name (such as likely mispellings) and variations close to it...you can redirect all of them to your primary domain.

 

[lightandaprayer]

I have used Runbox.com for many years as my email provider. There are a variety of reasonably priced plans and customer support is quick and excellent. I am based in the U.S. and Runbox is in Norway but that has never been an issue for me. You can use your own domain name. Runbox is privacy-oriented, with very good spam filtering (I rarely see spam in my inbox) and account security.

For domain registration I suggest Moniker. I used GoDaddy for a long time but dropped them for various reasons. I also recommend using Moniker's private registration option. A lot of spam originates from public WhoIs domain registration data. I started using private registration many years ago and one result is that email spam basically dropped to 0.

 

[Jacques Cornell]

My primary email is on a free service since being burned by a domain registrar years ago. But security for free email services is meh...

I'm thinking of purchasing a new domain and setting up O365 Business Basic.

My portfolio address is macroblume.zenfolio.com. So I could go with me@macroblume.com or me@firstlastphotography.com.

This domain will go onto my Info Tech resume as well...unless I opt for two different domains, but that seems like overkill.

Do any of you have custom domains? Is photography your side hustle? What do youdo for email and portfolio?

Thanks!

As an event pro, I've used Apple's iCloud for email since...well, forever. My domains are hosted by GoDaddy. My sites are hosted by Zenfolio. iCloud accounts are free, and there appears to be no limit to how many you can have. I have two: one for my personal use and one for my two-person company. My colleague and I are able to use the company account and login on our Macs to share contacts, calendars, notes, Safari bookmarks, docs in iCloud Drive, passwords in the Keychain, and more, in addition to the email account.

 

[lightandaprayer]

If the OP wants to use her own domain for her email, iCloud is not an option since user domains are not allowed. I prefer using a business domain for biz contacts, website, etc.

 

[Jacques Cornell]

If the OP wants to use her own domain for her email, iCloud is not an option since user domains are not allowed. I prefer using a business domain for biz contacts, website, etc.

Sure. My colleague and I use just one email address for our business, and it's (companyname)@icloud.com, so we both see all incoming emails and it's not exactly hard for clients to remember.

 

[RDKirk]

If the OP wants to use her own domain for her email, iCloud is not an option since user domains are not allowed. I prefer using a business domain for biz contacts, website, etc.

Sure. My colleague and I use just one email address for our business, and it's (companyname)@icloud.com, so we both see all incoming emails and it's not exactly hard for clients to remember.

That's done for a business-owned or personal domain by having a shared mailbox, such as "[email protected]" that any number of people have access to.

 

[Jacques Cornell]

If the OP wants to use her own domain for her email, iCloud is not an option since user domains are not allowed. I prefer using a business domain for biz contacts, website, etc.

Sure. My colleague and I use just one email address for our business, and it's (companyname)@icloud.com, so we both see all incoming emails and it's not exactly hard for clients to remember.

That's done for a business-owned or personal domain by having a shared mailbox, such as "[email protected]" that any number of people have access to.

I'm aware of that. But, with just two employees/executives, the iCloud solution works great for us.

 

[JJ Casas]

Before G Suite charged for Basic accounts, I have 3 legacy accounts that are still not being charged--created separate ones for cinematography production, photography and wedding coverage.

Currently am paying for one G Suite account (2 emails for another business) which is $6/user.

I personally love Gmail's UI and using G Suite allows you to create not only users "[email protected]" but also groups in which you can allow one email to forward to how many people you'd like i.e. [email protected] is used when I have signed up for e-courses for my colleagues to use. When you're an admin for G Suite, you have total control too i.e. changing/resetting passwords which can be helpful when managing staff.

Even with just one user, I personally think Gmail is great and maybe it's because I'm a self proclaimed Gmail power user (I started building out a course for it too teaching people how to organize their inbox like a "digital filing cabinet".)

As far as domains, I have more than a dozen domains booked and used on GoDaddy over the last decade. I've read other complains about it but for me, I'm just used to it and haven't had major issues.

 

[lightandaprayer]

Since the OP mentioned security is important to her, I suggest that she would do well to avoid using Google services.

Google's primary business (Google is a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc.) is financially dependent upon the harvesting, aggregation and commodification of its users' personal data. There are both internal and external privacy and security risks associated with its offerings such as GSuite and GMail. Those risks can be reduced if you are willing to expend the time and effort but they cannot be eliminated altogether.

 

[cnyphotoguy]

My primary email is on a free service since being burned by a domain registrar years ago. But security for free email services is meh...

I'm thinking of purchasing a new domain and setting up O365 Business Basic.

Office 365 is a great platform. I use it for my Business (not photography) and support y client's usage. I manage my domains with Namecheap.

My portfolio address is macroblume.zenfolio.com. So I could go with me@macroblume.com or me@firstlastphotography.com.

This domain will go onto my Info Tech resume as well...unless I opt for two different domains, but that seems like overkill.

You could link multiple domains to a single Office 365 tenant if you wanted to maintain two personas from a single mailbox/identity.

 

[stormgirl_lp]

Yep, this is what I decided in the end. Business Premium was a little more than I wanted to pay, but it suits.

Since I'm a 365 domain architect anyway, it makes sense for me to stand up my own tenant. I was hoping to find a program for an Enterprise tenant, but there seem to be no programs for platform architects, only the development program.

 

[KE_DP]

I know this is an old thread newly revived, but domain names are cheap. Get whatever you like and however many you need. You can also run multiple domains (and websites) under one single hosting account.

Providers mostly also support a "catch all" so you can use different addresses such as - [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], etc. and all will get sent to one address.

In my case I have one personal domain (my name) and one primary business domain for photography (among other additional sites/domains I run).

 

[rmexpress22]

I use Dreamhost and Office 365. GoDaddy is good too though. As long as you go with a name-brand registrar (where you register your domain) and setup dual authentication, you're fairly safe.

I was with 1and1 before and it got to a point where I wasn't happy with them. I started getting some charges for some misc items and doing certain things can be tedious.

As far as email, my preference is Office 365 for its flexibility as an email admin. If you want easy, gmail is easier in many ways, and good enough for most people.

You do have the option of using Office 365 and G Suite to buy the domain inside the service while you're creating an account, so that's an option also. It saves you some setup steps since you won't have to prove you own the domain.

 

[Harold123]

Yes, security of free email services is doubtful. That's why I back up my email letters both to Google Drive and my PC (I use Email in Detail tool to archive emails as pdf files and it really eases the process). I should say, it is convenient to have additional copies, especially when there is no Internet connection.

 

[GreatWhiteWing]

My primary email is on a free service since being burned by a domain registrar years ago. But security for free email services is meh...

I'm thinking of purchasing a new domain and setting up O365 Business Basic.

My portfolio address is macroblume.zenfolio.com. So I could go with me@macroblume.com or me@firstlastphotography.com.

This domain will go onto my Info Tech resume as well...unless I opt for two different domains, but that seems like overkill.

Do any of you have custom domains? Is photography your side hustle? What do youdo for email and portfolio?

Thanks!

For our home business (not photo related) we use namecheap.com for domain name hosting. Owned the domain for a long time and transferred it under 2 years ago. So far so good. Inexpensive and pretty easy to use.

My wife who runs the business uses a hotmail email account and it works for her.