• How to get email on your own domain

  What custom domain email actually is, the three ways to get it, and what each one costs you in money and effort.

• Free custom domain email: what you really get

  Three kinds of free exist, and they give up three different things. Which limit bites you depends on what you were going to do with the address.

• A cheaper Google Workspace alternative for email

  If you only wanted the email part, per-seat pricing is a bad deal. Here is what the numbers look like and what you give up.

• A Microsoft 365 alternative for email only

  Business Basic is a bundle. If you use one part, you pay per person for the rest — here is the arithmetic and what breaks if you leave.

• Amazon WorkMail alternatives before the shutdown

  AWS stopped accepting new WorkMail customers in April 2026 and ends support on 31 March 2027. What the deadline means, and how to plan the move.

• Cheap business email that is not a forwarding hack

  Where the price actually goes, which cheap options quietly cost you something else, and what to look for.

• Set up email for your domain in about ten minutes

  The exact records to add, in what order, and how to tell which step you are stuck on.

• Where to add MX records at your registrar

  The records are identical everywhere; only the form changes. Cloudflare, GoDaddy, Namecheap, Squarespace and Route 53 — and the trap each one sets.

• MX, SPF, DKIM and DMARC explained in five minutes

  Four records, four jobs. What each one does, why it exists, and what breaks when it is wrong.

• Business email address ideas: hello@ vs info@

  Which addresses to create on day one, which ones quietly attract spam, and why the answer changes once addresses stop costing money.

• Unlimited email aliases for your domain

  Aliases versus mailboxes, where the distinction actually matters, and why per-seat pricing makes them expensive.

Put email on your own domain

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