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As someone leery of tying my domain to my Google account, I'm curious what people recommend for this use case. I have a vanity domain currently hosted on a web
by jghn 5y ago
As someone leery of tying my domain to my Google account, I'm curious what people recommend for this use case. I have a vanity domain currently hosted on a web hosting platform. These days it only gets used to forward the email of a few people to their contemporary email accounts, all gmail based.
As I no longer use the web hosting, storage, or anything else like that I'd love to find something cheaper that can just handle the email forwarding. I like the idea of using Google as for many things I trust them more than a smaller company. But there are too many stories out there of people having no idea what they did wrong and losing all access to their account, with no recourse.
- bxparks 5y agoCloudflare Domain Registrar. They sell at-cost, so $9.95/year for a .com/.net domain. But don't use your gmail account as the admin account. For email forwarding, Cloudflare Email Routing looks promising. I'm just about to give it a try. It's currently in beta though.
- dazc 5y agoAgree, cloudflare is ideal for parent's use case although you have to join a waiting list of several weeks for forwarding to be activated (my experience anyways).
- et-al 5y agoFrom my recent personal experience, Cloudflare email forwarding is available without a waiting list now. Another poster a month ago said it took a week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30129770 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30129770
- srhngpr 5y agoHappy customer of Cloudflare Email Routing - it works exceptionally well. I've paired it with Amazon SES for the occasional time I need to send emails from custom domain.