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Right now, my Rails website is being hosted on a regular virtual host, running CentOS and cPanel, the classical way. I also have an e-mail address on my domain, and my host also, obviously, provides an e-mail server.

I would like to move my portfolio website to a PaaS provider, such as Heroku. However, I am unsure whether I will still be able to receive e-mails on e-mail addresses associated with my domain name, when my site is hosted on Heroku.

If not, what could be an alternative?

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There is no problem on it.

If you have a dedicated mail-server, You just have to solve it with DNS configuration. A lot of domain sellers give you free DNS manager.

Also be aware that Heroku doesn't provide any mail server for you.

You have two options:

  • Keep you current regular hosting account just for it's mail feature.
  • Use Gmail Google app that's a lot cheaper!
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But Heroku doesn't seem to provide an actual mail server I could point to... – Andrei Bârsan Dec 26 '12 at 23:54
@AndreiBârsan I've updated the answer. – Huckleberry Finn Dec 27 '12 at 0:45
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I see, so there's no way to just host it all in one place, like on VPS hosting. Well, I guess I'll use the first option, thank you! – Andrei Bârsan Dec 31 '12 at 15:17

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