Server limits – Sure, when your e-mail service is hosted on your Web server, you generally get promises of outrageous amounts of storage space and unlimited e-mail accounts.However, with Google, when a problem arises, it most likely effects everyone else that’s using Gmail, which means that fixing it becomes the highest priority for your service provider. It makes it difficult to pinpoint the problem and fix it, and it means that you are probably not a high-priority. Nine times out of ten, the problem is relegated specifically to your server, and possibly even to your account. If your e-mail is hosted on your Web server, and the e-mail service starts malfunctioning, you have little recourse but to contact your service provider. Service and support – Your e-mail service is important to you.You can keep your e-mail on the same service even when you switch the server on which your Web site is hosted. Portability – How many times have you moved your domain to a new server and been frustrated by the fact that you lost all of your e-mail messages? If you switch over to Google Apps, you never have to worry about that again (at least, until Google goes away, which I don’t expect to happen any time soon).
I rarely, if ever, hear about anyone losing e-mail messages or not receiving important messages when using Gmail. Reliability – Although Gmail has been out of commission a few times over the last couple of months, it has proven to be reliable as an e-mail service.Following are some of the advantages I see in moving your e-mail over to Google Apps: I honestly hadn’t thought about it before (in fact, I made a post a while back about how strange it was that everyone was moving to Gmail). He asked me if I had looked into using Google Apps for my domain-based e-mail services. I told him that I rarely give out anything but my Yahoo! e-mail address, because a lot of messages get lost in cyberspace with my other accounts. At one point, after discussing the virtues of using Yahoo! Mail, I mentioned that the e-mail addresses I have hosted on my own servers are often unreliable. The other day, I was talking with my friend Aaron ( about all of the various e-mail addresses we have and how we use them.