Website / email

[Bigbox]

Hello - my existing website isn't great and i will be changing to a new url shortly.

I have already bought this url (from GoDaddy) and would like to start using an email address such as [e-mail] however i'm not yet ready to change the website yet as haven't decided who will do this.

Can i just use the GoDaddy service 'add email address' service to get this set up or will i be screwing things up for when i get the website built?

Am a bit stumped!

Thanks

[HantsRat]

Yes you can setup the email. You would need a hosting package though. I'd avoid using GoDaddy!

You then simply point your nameserver with GoDaddy to your chosen host then setup the email. When you come round to having the website built, that can then be built on the same host.

Avoid GoDaddy and EIG Group hosts listed here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endurance_Internatio...

If it helps I run a web design/hosting business and would be happy to host this for you and set it up. I host a few sites for PH members

[snuffy]

You dont need a hosting package in order to use your new email address.

[rsbmw]

You do need something hosting your email

[HantsRat]

snuffy said:

You dont need a hosting package in order to use your new email address.

Yes you do. Where will the email sit? You either need a hosting package that includes email or use a third party such as office 365 (Which is email hosting).

[Takemeaway]

HantsRat said:

Yes you do. Where will the email sit? You either need a hosting package that includes email or use a third party such as office 365 (Which is email hosting).

Presumably the email will sit with whoever hosts the site which is tbc and is something I’m working on with a 3rd party provider.
I do use office 365 though, should I try and register the email using 365?

[bitchstewie]

Takemeaway said:

Presumably the email will sit with whoever hosts the site which is tbc and is something I’m working on with a 3rd party provider.
I do use office 365 though, should I try and register the email using 365?

It depends what you want to do.

If you want to be able to quickly tell people to email sales@yournewdomain you can almost certainly do this right now and just use email forwarding at GoDaddy.

If you want to be able to send/receive mail from sales@yournewdomain there's more technical expertise needed to set that up and that might be where you struggle.

[snuffy]

bhstewie said:

If you want to be able to quickly tell people to email sales@yournewdomain you can almost certainly do this right now and just use email forwarding at GoDaddy.

This is correct ^^

That is to say, you do not need an email hosting package.

[Takemeaway]

bhstewie said:

It depends what you want to do.

If you want to be able to quickly tell people to email sales@yournewdomain you can almost certainly do this right now and just use email forwarding at GoDaddy.

If you want to be able to send/receive mail from sales@yournewdomain there's more technical expertise needed to set that up and that might be where you struggle.

I think that’s the problem. I don’t want to screw up or be tied in to the wrong platform before I sort out the website.
From reading the above, it looks like I’m best off hanging fire till the decision has been made on who is going to build and host the site

[bitchstewie]

Takemeaway said:

I think that’s the problem. I don’t want to screw up or be tied in to the wrong platform before I sort out the website.
From reading the above, it looks like I’m best off hanging fire till the decision has been made on who is going to build and host the site

Basically at a pure technical level there is no link between where your website is hosted and where your email is hosted.

Sometimes hosting/domain registration companies do daft stuff though and you can't always legislate for that.

I'm not familiar with GoDaddy but assuming they aren't doing anything totally daft you should be quite safe to setup email forwarding independent of the other stuff.

They'd have to be doing something seriously weird and daft for that to be an issue.

[silentbrown]

One other point/question : you shouldn't need a new domain name just to have a new website.

Changing domain name and email addresses is a great way of losing touch with your existing customers, so unless your current domain/email is horribly tied to a particular provider (e.g. [e-mail]) I'd recommend you kept the old domain name if it's still relevant for your business.

The DNS system controls how an internet domain name gets mapped to particular server IP addresses, and if you should have full control of that, no matter who you registered the original domain with.