- Hey guys!
My name is Christian Taylor.
Welcome back to Craylor Made,
where I like to talk about getting online,
building websites, and building a brand.
So today I'm gonna be talking about email hosting.
Custom email hosting.
How do you get that custom email for your domain name,
how much does it cost, is it worth it,
and where is the best place to get it?
Stay tuned for the video.
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So if you're building out your brand as a freelancer,
or content creator, or business.
One of the first things you're likely looking into
after getting a website is a custom email.
This can be something like info@yourbusiness.com,
or hello@yourname.com.
Now while custom email like this looks awesome,
you may be wondering if it's practical and affordable
for where you're at in your branding journey.
I'm here to tell you that it makes a big difference
in how professional your brand appears,
and it doesn't have to be expensive.
Now the email hosting, I personally use and recommend
for all of my brands is Namecheap's Private Email Hosting.
The particular plan I use is the private plan.
And it costs only $9.88 per year
for an email.
Now this price is for the first email inbox you create.
Additional email inboxes will cost you
$2.98 per year per inbox.
So what does this mean?
Let's say you want to have sales@mycompany.com,
and support@mycompany.com, as two separate inboxes.
Basically functioning as two emails.
To do this you would pay $12.86 per year total
for both email accounts.
And then for each additional email account you add,
you would add on $2.98 per year, per email.
So as you can see, Namecheap's Private Email Hosting
is very affordable and is essentially the price
of one domain name per year.
It's also important to note
that you can have one alias per inbox.
Meaning you could have help@mycompany.com
forward to support@mycompany.com.
And that's included in the cost.
Now you can also set up what's called a catch-all-inbox.
And that's where any imaginary made up email
someone might type will filter down to one inbox.
Somebody could literally type youarestupid@mycompany.com.
And with the catch-all feature enabled
it would forward to support@mycompany.com
or whatever the appropriate inbox is.
Now as far as reliability goes private email hosting
is rock solid.
I can think of one time in the three years using the service
where there were just a few hours of downtime
and I couldn't check my email.
But generally speaking, I don't ever have a problem.
So the pricing and reliability are attractive.
But is the email easy to set-up?
And what does the interface look like
where you check your email?
As far as the set-up process goes,
if you had your domain registered at Namecheap
the process is going to be very simple and easy.
Now if you have your domain registered with someone else,
it's still possible to use Namecheap's Private Email Hosting.
And it's still simple and easy to set-up.
But there are just a few more steps to work through.
I've set it up both with domains at Namecheap,
and with domains outside of Namecheap and both times
I would say it's pretty easy to set up.
Now lets talk about the interface.
Because knowing where and how to check your email
is important, and it's definitely a factor
when you're shopping for email hosting.
Namecheap's Private Email Hosting
uses an online software called Open-Xchange
for you to check your email.
It's a relatively basic and intuitive interface
that works on desktop and mobile.
Now while the included online email service
that Namecheap gives you is certainly a decent way
to check your email, I wouldn't recommend it.
It's definitely not up to the standards of an email service
like Gmail.
And I personally link my Namecheap private email accounts
to a mail client.
For Mac, iOS, and Android I recommend Spark which is free.
And for Windows users I recommend Mailbird
which is also free.
These apps basically let you enter the details
of your email address and then check your email
through the app instead of online.
Okay so generally speaking I've been pretty positive
about private emails so far.
And that's because I've had a good experience with it.
But lets talk about who private email isn't a fit for.
Now if you're an entrepreneur, content creator,
small business, or anyone building a brand
I would highly recommend private email hosting.
If however, you're a large corporation,
or someone with a large team, or someone
who's going to require more than the three gigabytes
of storage on the smallest private email plan.
I would recommend seeking out alternative options
such as G Suite.
While private email does offer higher plans
with more storage options,
the value for the price becomes dramatically lower.
And at the higher price point
of the more expensive private email hosting plans,
something like G-Suite
or hosting from Microsoft Outlook
starts to become a better idea.
Now in case you're wondering, G Suite
is Google's email hosting solution
and will give you the ability
to have the quality email services Gmail provides
while having it on your own custom domain name.
G Suite also bring other benefits like 30 gigabytes
of Google Drive space, and access to Google Docs,
Google Sheets and more.
Now G Suite is $5 per month, per inbox,
or $50 per year, per inbox.
So it definitely adds up and I wouldn't recommend it
for the average person.
Exploring their pricing model;
that means if you wanted three separate inboxes,
you would have to pay $15 per month
or $50 per year for email hosting.
And that is expensive when you're a small guy
and you're just getting started.
I used G Suite for a few months
and I did really like the service it provided.
But I ultimately ended up switching back
to private email hosting for the amazing value it offers.
Now the only other downside I can find
to private email hosting,
is that it doesn't two factor authentication.
This kind of bothers me because
I have two factor authentication enabled
on absolutely every account that supports it.
And having a secure email is incredibly important.
After all if someone hacks your email,
they literally have access to all of your accounts
by resetting passwords,
and clicking the links that get sent to your email.
So for that reason I use a very strong
randomly generated password
for all of my private email accounts,
and store them in LastPass,
and I've not had a problem so far.
So in the end, if you're an entrepreneur, content creator,
or small business owner, I would definitely recommend
giving Namecheap's Private Email Hosting a shot.
They offer a two month free trial,
so you might as well give it a try.
And I'll have a link to get started
in the description below.
Well anyway guys, thank you so much for watching.
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