[c_b_g_b]

Hi, i've designed for a while, but never managed the domain & email side of things.
If I was to design a website for someone and wanted to set up the whole domain and email, how would I do that?
Any help would be great.

[andyl]

1. Buy a domain
2. Point the nameservers to your host
3. Login to cPanel and make some email accounts - or change MX Entry to let GMail deal with your emails, I much prefer this (signup for Googleapps)

This post has been edited by andyl: 16 February 2011 - 09:07 PM

[c_b_g_b]

thanks man!

still a little lost but I think the only way it will make 100% sense is by taking the plunge.

[andyl]

I doubt you'll come across any problems, it really is the simplest bit of the process

[MikeChipshop]

andyl, on 16 February 2011 - 09:07 PM, said:

... change MX Entry to let GMail deal with your emails, I much prefer this (signup for Googleapps)

Gotta plus 1 this comment. Best method i've found.

[MikeChipshop]

As said above...

• Purchase hosting
• Register a domain and your friendly local domain registrar
• Add the domain to your hosting using the hostings control panel (it should then tell you the 'name-servers')
• in the domains control panel (at the registrar) change the name-servers to the ones of your hosting
• Revel in your brilliance.

P.S. it won't be instant, i once had one take about 24hours to transfer grrrr (but one was instant).

[andyl]

MikeChipshop, on 17 February 2011 - 11:51 AM, said:

Gotta plus 1 this comment. Best method i've found.

It surprised me how easy it was to setup emails to operate via Googleapps. I was very impressed, for a change

[MikeChipshop]

andyl, on 17 February 2011 - 11:55 AM, said:

It surprised me how easy it was to setup emails to operate via Googleapps. I was very impressed, for a change

Gotta love it!
If there was one thing i used to hate it was having to get everything through pop3 or forwarding stuff to my Gmail and then sending back unprofessional looking emails.

[andyl]

POP3 - gosh, those were the days

(And I'm only 19!)

[makethetick]

+1 for GoogleApps, best email service about at the moment plus it's free.

[c_b_g_b]

OK cool, thanks guys.

[c_b_g_b]

just a quick update - I decided to give the googleapps a trial run with my broaddesign.co.uk account and it seems simple enough to be honest. Just need to add a meta tag into the index page when I get home from work and that should be that. Hey Presto!


Thanks again guys.

This post has been edited by c_b_g_b: 18 February 2011 - 11:19 AM

[andyl]

If you haven't already, and for the benefit of others, just change the MX Entry in your CPanel for your main domain to:

Priority: 10
Destination: ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM

Signup to Googleapps, verify your domain and start adding some users. You will need to add users for any email addresses you previously used on your domain otherwise they may be lost forever!

That's all there is to it. Fantastic in my opinion.

[zed]

andyl, on 18 February 2011 - 03:48 PM, said:

If you haven't already, and for the benefit of others, just change the MX Entry in your CPanel for your main domain to:

Priority: 10
Destination: ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM

Signup to Googleapps, verify your domain and start adding some users. You will need to add users for any email addresses you previously used on your domain otherwise they may be lost forever!

That's all there is to it. Fantastic in my opinion.

Useful stuff although I wonder what Google is getting out of all this? Well I don't wonder at all, I'm sure they're scanning the mails for some sort of targetting?

[andyl]

zed, on 18 February 2011 - 03:55 PM, said:

Useful stuff although I wonder what Google is getting out of all this? Well I don't wonder at all, I'm sure they're scanning the mails for some sort of targetting?

Ah well, all emails are scanned by government organisations anyway. Google might as well be a government organisation, so I honestly couldn't care less!

[c_b_g_b]

Tell you what gents.
I'm sure it's very simple indeed - but broaddesign.co.uk is on my friends hosting account, and therefore I can't really do anything about the MX Entry as I don't even know what server he uses. I got to the MX part and that's what tripped me up (not having any info to put in).

Ah well, guess I'll have to try with another one when I sort someones website out.

Thanks very much anyway guys.

[rallport]

c_b_g_b, on 18 February 2011 - 08:44 PM, said:

Tell you what gents.
I'm sure it's very simple indeed - but broaddesign.co.uk is on my friends hosting account, and therefore I can't really do anything about the MX Entry as I don't even know what server he uses. I got to the MX part and that's what tripped me up (not having any info to put in).

Ah well, guess I'll have to try with another one when I sort someones website out.

Thanks very much anyway guys.

The server doesn't matter. Every domain has DNS records There are loads of possibilities:

You can host your site where it currently is b y leaving the A record alone
You can host your email via Google Apps - as said above, change MX record
You can have a seperate company manage the DNs records for you - change nameservers
You have a seperate company manage the renewal/ownership of the domain by changing the registrar tag (E.g. IPS tag if .co.uk).

[zed]

bobbies, on 01 April 2011 - 05:58 PM, said:

Great Job !

Show me

STOP spamming!!!

[c_b_g_b]

Right then - here's one for those that know what they are doing:

I've verified my gglapps account and have managed to send my personal email address a test email, so it's 50% working. But I tried to reply (from a hotmail account to the newly created info@broaddesign.co.uk account) and I got this message -

"This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.

Delivery to the following recipients failed.

info@broaddesign.co.uk


--------------------------------


Reporting-MTA: dns;blu0-omc4-s7.blu0.hotmail.com
Received-From-MTA: dns;BLU0-SMTP58
Arrival-Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 11:36:14 -0700

Final-Recipient: rfc822;info@broaddesign.co.uk
Action: failed
Status: 5.5.0
Diagnostic-Code: smtp;550 No Such User Here"


Any ideas as to what I can do? as I'm sure you've guessed I'm a bit of a newb when it comes to all of this.

Any help would be appreciated,
Cheers guys!

[fov]

The issue you have there is that the email account info@broaddesign.co.uk doesnt reside on the server where mail is recieved. At the moment you are sending mail to the server broaddesign.co.uk is hosted on (66.147.240.179). I suspect you have set up info@broaddesign.co.uk on google but currently without changing the mx records to point to G mail wont know to be sent to them.

As an aside I would advise caution when using google for your email. There is no SLA, they are very difficult to contact if there are issues, they have lost emails and on top of that they read your emails to provide adds. I know any host can have issues but you can normally do something about it like take your backup and move!

[MikeChipshop]

fov, on 25 April 2011 - 08:46 PM, said:

The issue you have there is that the email account info@broaddesign.co.uk doesnt reside on the server where mail is recieved. At the moment you are sending mail to the server broaddesign.co.uk is hosted on (66.147.240.179). I suspect you have set up info@broaddesign.co.uk on google but currently without changing the mx records to point to G mail wont know to be sent to them.

As an aside I would advise caution when using google for your email. There is no SLA, they are very difficult to contact if there are issues, they have lost emails and on top of that they read your emails to provide adds. I know any host can have issues but you can normally do something about it like take your backup and move!

No one actually reads your email, a programe scans through it same as any ad or spam filter.

[fov]

MikeChipshop, on 25 April 2011 - 08:59 PM, said:

No one actually reads your email, a programe scans through it same as any ad or spam filter.

Yes obviously a human doesnt read them.
But personally I wouldnt feel easy about having google with access for them to spider and take whatever stats they desire. Though the other points would be my main concern for something as important as email.

[MikeChipshop]

fov, on 26 April 2011 - 06:55 AM, said:

Yes obviously a human doesnt read them.
But personally I wouldnt feel easy about having google with access for them to spider and take whatever stats they desire. Though the other points would be my main concern for something as important as email.

It just annoys me when this one is dragged out of the gutter now and again. Every on-line email provider scans your emails so they can post relevant adverts. As does every spam scanner on every email website/programme, 99% of employers, all government organisations, most charity organisations... anyway you get the point. Time for people to stop thinking it's a big deal.

If it bugs you then better not tell you about the machines your mail goes through when you post via the royal mail

[fov]

MikeChipshop, on 26 April 2011 - 09:07 AM, said:

It just annoys me when this one is dragged out of the gutter now and again. Every on-line email provider scans your emails so they can post relevant adverts.

And I would say the same for any of them, but google do have a habit of tracking you all over the place and I wouldnt trust the amount of info they already have combined with email info too.

MikeChipshop, on 26 April 2011 - 09:07 AM, said:

As does every spam scanner on every email website/programme, 99% of employers, all government organisations, most charity organisations... anyway you get the point. Time for people to stop thinking it's a big deal.

But spam scanners look for spam finger prints. They dont actually build any profile on you.
I dont think its a huge deal, I dont wear a tinfoil hat or anything but equally I dont easily hand over more info than necessary

MikeChipshop, on 26 April 2011 - 09:07 AM, said:

If it bugs you then better not tell you about the machines your mail goes through when you post via the royal mail

Royal mail? Is that from t' olden days when you had to use a pen and paper?

[MikeChipshop]

It's cool mate, i wasn't accusing you of wearing the old tin foil hat i just get annoyed with the amount of people who cry foul play at every little thing.

I remember when the postman used to deliver my post twice a day... both before midday!

[zed]

quick aside to the scanning thing. Just noticed Facebook doing it when you post something. I updated my status to say I got a £10 Tesco Finest Easter egg for £2.50 and after that entry I had two page suggestions, one for Tesco and the other for Easter eggs. I can see why Google are a bit worried about Facebook.

This post has been edited by zed: 26 April 2011 - 07:10 PM