DrakNet Introduces GoogleApps Standard Installation Service
We’ve been noticing that more and more people are switching to Google Apps Standard. After all, its cool, the standard edition is free, and they have all those awesome little Labs things.
We’ve also been noticing that people are nearly baffled to utterly baffled at times as to what, precisely, Google is asking them to do with regards to MX changes, cname additions, and so on. Usually, it takes multiple tickets back and forth to finally get it all set up and running. We eventually realized that we could do this far faster than you all could, and we also have direct access to edit the DNS records, which you all do not, so we’ve decided to implement a service at no charge to do it all for you, and hand you a Google Apps enabled domain back.
If you would like Google Apps installed on your main domain, or your add on domain, you can fill the form out here and we’ll do it for you.
What are some reasons that you would want Google Apps?
- POP (receiving email), IMAP (receiving email), and SMTP (sending email) are all figured into your bandwidth, your CPU use, and your memory use. Offloading your email processing to Google Apps can help higher resource sites bring down their resource usage.
- Google Apps Standard Edition comes with 7335 Megabytes for each email account, and up to 50 accounts can be installed with the free standard version. That 7 Gigs per account housing your email is 7 more gigs on the server that you can use for other things.
- Google Apps Webmail is, without a doubt, faster loading than our webmail. If you are a webmail user, its highly likely you’ll be happier with Google Apps performance since webmail here is simply one more thing running on the server, and Google Apps mail servers are devoted solely to churning out that email.
- It seperates out your mail and your site – if your server goes down, or if (gasp!) your site is suspended, your mail will still happily hum along.
- If your site is ever compromised, you don’t have to worry about the privacy of your mail. Well, not from the compromise, anyway.
What are some reasons that you wouldn’t want Google Apps?
- DrakNet will not support email problems that you have. If you have problems with delivery, with sending, you’ll need to go to Google for support. The only thing we will have is the DNS record pointing your email delivery that-a-way.
- If you’re going to go over 7 Gigs in your email, the Standard Google Apps won’t work for you for long, and upgrading is $50 per user per domain per year.
- For some reason, you just adore Horde.
- If you have Mailman mailing lists, they will no longer function.
- You just plain old hate Google.
If you decide to give Google Apps a whirl, fill the form out here, and we will get your Google Apps account, verify the domain, set up the administrator email for you, change the MX Records, install any custom URLs you want for any of their services, and change your SPF record at no charge.
