Recommendations for Hosting my domain

[Abgs]

I use Layershift.com - have done for the past 20 years.

I chose them as I knew how they operated because I used to own a decent sized UK web hosting company myself.

 

[zac]

So I am about to try the mythic-beasts.com as my current email forwarder (123reg) has decided to move my 2 accounts again, and put me on the lower-tier plan, which does not include external email forwarding which is the only use for these 2 domains. So mystic-beasts claim to allow just redirection only for email so paid the £1.20 and am now waiting for the DNS to propagate so I can set up the email side, as I don't want to move the domains yet as they are still in date for a while. I will consider moving the domains once they are near expiration, though, as 123reg has become truly shocking as of late.

I believe this is what the op wants to do as i will keep the registration of the domain where it is but point just the email part (MX records) at the mythic-beasts servers so they can redirect to their gmail accounts. For info you can move the domains as well if you want

Will update once i can get past the DNS verification, which can take up to 48 hours to propagate.

 

[robscriven]

Ionos is good quality, I have one domain on their. I have also used Hostinger which was good.

Fasthosts is another brand of Ionos.

 

[peterc10]

That is odd, I thought all Plusnet Webmail customers had been migrated over to Greenby. I certainly have and although very patchy to begin with, it appears to be running smoothly now. I have three email addresses with them and all for free.

Geoff

I have had a chat with Plusnet and they say that people who have a domain name managed by Plusnet have not yet been migrated to Greenby because it is a more complex operation and they are also too busy dealing with the consequences of the switching off land lines at the year end.

Plusnet will give me a 60 day warning and a 30 day reminder of the date that they will switch me. And they will deal with most of the arrangements on the day.

So I will wait and see how Greenby will deal with this. I think they have a free 2 year introduction period before starting charging.

 

[LostInSpace]

quite a lot of people, including me, moved to Andrews & Arnold. AAISP or aa.net

They can provide as much or as little as you need.

Yes, they are good.

I have two Static IP SIM cards with them and I am investigating what is needed so that I can use my landline phone number whilst away in the motorhome (even in France I believe).

 

[TheCaller]

I can use my landline phone number whilst away in the motorhome (even in France I believe).

Yes, easy to do. You can use your 'landline' number anywhere you are, so long as you have an Internet connection.

My colleagues & I have answered our office landline number from France, Sweden, Italy, Tasmania & various fields scattered around this country.

 

[LostInSpace]

Yes, easy to do. You can use your 'landline' number anywhere you are

But not with my current arrangements, which is why I am looking at using A&A.

 

[peterc10]

I have another problem that I hope you experts could help please concerning about Gmail spam filters

I have a Gmail address as well as my plusnet webmail . It seems that I have accidently managed to report spam, including my plusnet domain, and other recipients which means I cannot use it when the recipient has a Gmail account.

I have looked at my Google account and found their spam list, but for the life of me I cannot see how to delete the names on the list. Can anybody please give me a simple step by step method to delete them from the spam list please.

 

[TheCaller]

But not with my current arrangements, which is why I am looking at using A&A.

Yes, I meant with A&A. Having said that, once a landline goes to Voice over IP (VoIP) as they are all doing now, it shouldn't matter who your ISP is, you should be able to use it anywhere. Some providers keep that very quiet though .

Also note that you can then move house & keep the same number, no matter where you move to.

If you wanted to, you could also use one company to provide your broadband & a different one to handle your phone number.

 

[LostInSpace]

If you wanted to, you could also use one company to provide your broadband & a different one to handle your phone number.

Organising it will wait until until I get home from France

 

[CAB96]

Another with Ionos and their predecessor, for the past 20 years? Maybe longer.

 

[zac]

I have now moved over the email from one of my domains to Mythic-Beasts. It works, but as expected, the emails that are being redirected are getting flagged as spam on Gmail, which is through no fault of Mythic-Beasts. The DKIM and other DNS records are all set up correctly, but from the old 123reg the emails were being delivered to an inbox and then a rule on this was to then forward to Gmail. The end result in theory is the same, but for this one the emails are being forwarded as they arrive, which may do something to the headers, which is different from the way the other one works. I can change to an inbox delivery on Mythic-Beasts and then forward, as it's not a lot more money, to be honest (less than a £1 a month).

All in all, it does work, though.

 

[Gromett]

Did Karl Grommet not used to do hosting but think he's stopped now.

I sold my hosting company back in 2015.

I can still host for funsters if needed and have doing for quite a few years. But it is not something I am doing openly (just yet).

 

[Gromett]

I have now moved over the email from one of my domains to Mythic-Beasts. It works, but as expected, the emails that are being redirected are getting flagged as spam on Gmail, which is through no fault of Mythic-Beasts. The DKIM and other DNS records are all set up correctly, but from the old 123reg the emails were being delivered to an inbox and then a rule on this was to then forward to Gmail. The end result in theory is the same, but for this one the emails are being forwarded as they arrive, which may do something to the headers, which is different from the way the other one works. I can change to an inbox delivery on Mythic-Beasts and then forward, as it's not a lot more money, to be honest (less than a £1 a month).

All in all, it does work, though.

I strongly recommend against using email forwarding anywhere. And in fact I ban it on my server as do all my clients now. (I am a freelance consultant / Server admin).

The problem is.
Normal Email -> forwarded -> gmail = ok
Spam -> forwarded -> gmail = gmail thinks the forwarding server is the spammer and blocks everyone on that server.

To gmail the source of the server appears to be the forwarding servers IP address not the originating IP address and it is the forwarding server that gets banned.

 

[LostInSpace]

All of my email is forwarded as it arrives, but is fowarded to my ISP email address from domains hosted by the ISP.

Not noticed any problems with that and I can use the ISP's webmail service from anywhere.
and send email from my domain addresses.

 

[activecampers]

Personally, 123-reg, have done for 20 odd years.
BUT I only use them as a domain registrar and DNS - not for email.

If you need email you may want to consider that service first as to how you want it set up and what quality service you want - eg if you want cloud based email with any device able to connect and see the same, full tracing and mailbox rules - then corporate Office 365 is hard to beat. You can get single exchange plan 1 license which is 50gb mailbox, and have full corporate grade features. not trivial to set up but doable. Custom domains no problem. Able to sync on any device, corporate level security, unlimited email addresses in form of shared malboxes (50gb ea) or distribution groups - and yes, possible to pay for 1x address and use 100s. (ahem)

MS haters will hate, but its hard to beat in the corporate world for price/performance

 

[Gromett]

Personally, 123-reg, have done for 20 odd years.

I used 123-reg since I sold my hosting company. Back then I was a registrar and a Nominet tag holder so could register/renew .uk domains for £2.50 a year.

I think 123-reg put the prices of domains up too much and felt I was having my leg lifted as they provided zero services to me as I fully self host my own DNS servers, email, web etc.

I took a look around for a cheaper registrar for my .uk domains and found FREEOLA. I have been very happy with them so far and are a lot cheaper.

It is £12.99 to renew a .uk domain with 123-REG
and £6 a year with FREEOLA if you enable auto renew. Less than half price.

BUT please note, that is without any services attached. They register my domain name, and then tell Nominet to use my nameservers. my domain traffic never touches their network ever.
If you use any service such as email, forwarding, hosting FREEOLA may not be the best.

I have never used either for their hosting services nor required any technical support so I cannot comment on either companies services.

PS: I just checked how much Nominet charger tag holders and it is now £3.90 per year.

 

[martinpw]

I use Zen internet who also provide my Internet at home.

I host my GPS tracker server at home, but Zen provide a domain hosting service with a fuIl control panel.

Another vote for Zen, very reliable.

 

[zac]

I strongly recommend against using email forwarding anywhere. And in fact I ban it on my server as do all my clients now. (I am a freelance consultant / Server admin).

The problem is.
Normal Email -> forwarded -> gmail = ok
Spam -> forwarded -> gmail = gmail thinks the forwarding server is the spammer and blocks everyone on that server.

To gmail the source of the server appears to be the forwarding servers IP address not the originating IP address and it is the forwarding server that gets banned.

For my use it works, and for the very small amount of email these 2 domains receive, it's not worth paying for individual mailboxes; currently only one has been flagged as spam and moved to the spam folder (the first one sent when the spf records were still being cached from the old server). If they start to ban them i will just upgrade them to mailboxes and get them to log in directly to pick up their mail, but it's been this way for the past 10 years with no issues, but saying that I know gmail are cracking down so who knows. i guess time will tell as always.

123reg have just kept on increasing prices year on year, and I don't use them for anything other than purchasing the names. I could save over a £100 a year just on domain name renewals, as they are double most places. I will now just move each domain off when it comes up for renewal, as their support over their latest price hike was shocking. I spent over 2 hours on the phone with them yesterday, being bounced around different departments to finally get a solution, which, although not great, at least refunded me the upfront cost left on the remaining term.

 

[Realist]

Me, running forums and sites for over 25 years had my own hosting company.

Now I use Enom for all my domains and stablepoint.com for the last 12 years, no sites now but I run domains just for emails and I pay $63.22 triennially and that’s for 1GB of space, 50GB of bandwidth via CPanel.

Plenty just for emails.

Cheap as chips.

 

[Scottish Scrutineer]

I’m another PlusNet user who has jumped to Mythic-Beasts, or am at least in progress, waiting for PlusNet to transfer my domain DNS to Mythic-Beasts. A bit of a hassle, mostly in setting up mailboxes etc, but as PlusNet has been very erratic with email delivery over the last couple of days, it should be worthwhile.

 

[zac]

I’m another PlusNet user who has jumped to Mythic-Beasts, or am at least in progress, waiting for PlusNet to transfer my domain DNS to Mythic-Beasts. A bit of a hassle, mostly in setting up mailboxes etc, but as PlusNet has been very erratic with email delivery over the last couple of days, it should be worthwhile.

I ended up moving the domains over as well as they take the expiry from the existing registrar which is good. That way you also don't have to wait for your existing registrar to transfer as it's done automatically once you change the ips tag to mythic-beasts.
Been impressed with mythic-beasts so far, I've now moved 5 domains but only 2 have email with them. The others have MS365 emails which is easier to manage as you can have as many domains you like delivering emails all in one place.
I will be moving the others in time as I will not be staying with 123reg now. Shame as been with them for over 20 years.