Skip to main content

Domain Hosting

The main players in this arena is Google, Microsoft and Yahoo.

Seeing that we have to pay for .co.za in South Africa, I'm not worried about that part, plus always believed keep the DNS and hosting separate. I do my own DNS servers from my work, so not even that is a problem.

If you cannot use your own DNS servers, or do not have access to DNS servers, look at DynDNS ( http://www.dyndns.com ) first. I've had a couple of co.za domains on there servers before, just get the Uniform submission correct.

Now leaving my choice to last, here is what I tried:

Microsoft Office Live:
http://home.officelive.com
I ended up using the UK server, because this seemed to have free accounts, 5 only. But then after setting everything up I realised that the custom domain was limited to a preset list. Cannot use any domain. That was enough to let me give up.

Yahoo Small Business:
http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/
"US$8.96 for the first 3 months (US$11.95/month after)" sound exactly like a cellphone contract from some of our networks. I did not even read further.

Google Apps:
http://www.google.co.za/a/
Still my choice. Free, 100 mailboxes at 7.271981Gb (this changes daily) per mailbox, spam & virus filters, Docs & Sites and much more. And bets of all, co.za support! Or rather they tell you what to add to the DNS (some CNAME's) and it works.

Cheers

Comments

Post a comment

Popular posts from this blog

Double Bunk in Caravan

With our family expanding, we faced a challenge of adding another berth in our caravan, but I did not want to make it permanent.
A couple of options are available, of which one is simply to add a bunk to the single berth. We however did not want to cause any permanent markings on the interior of the caravan .
Post a comment
Read more

Netdata + SNMP + Mikrotik

Always wanted to see my Internet line usage as a gauge without having to log into the router.
So today I configured SNMP in Netdata to collect from my Mikrotik router.
/etc/netdata/node.d/snmp.conf:
{
"enable_autodetect": false,
"update_every": 5,
"max_request_size": 100,
"servers": [
{
"hostname": "10.1.1.1",
"community": "public",
"update_every": 5,
"max_request_size": 50,
"options": { "timeout": 20 },
"charts": {
"mikrotik1.cpu": {
"title": "CPU ",
"units": "percentage",
"type": "line",
"family": "cpu",
"dimensions": {
"used": {
&qu…
Post a comment
Read more

CasparCG Simple Playlist

It is possible to build a simple playlist as a rundown in the CasparCG client. It will very simply play each item after each other that are on the same layer. In this very simple post I show how to build such a playlist including the very important step of activating the OSC.

The Open Sound Control (OSC) implementation is how the client knows what the server is doing and then being able to send new command back to the server when a piece of media has ended to trigger playback of the next piece. For more details on the OCS, please see http://casparcg.com/wiki/CasparCG_OSC_Protocol



Read more