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We are looking for a good way to have email support. In theory, we need to allow end-users to send emails directly to support and careers. i.e. support@domain_name_here.com and careers@domain_name_here.com.

Second, we need to provide emails to our staff. So each staff member has their own email address. i.e. joe@domain_name_here.com, meghan@domain_name_here.com, etc.

Google Apps is one that we are considering. However, they are charging $50 per user, per year. Not so bad, considering the quality and the features they offer.

However, there are also cheaper alternatives. i.e. my domain registrar offers an email plan for $20 / year / 10 emails. Go Daddy has a number of plans and still a lot more affordable than Google Apps. So far Namecheap and Go Daddy are the only ones I have looked at for email plans.

Is it worth signing up with Google Apps? Or are there better alternatives?

Your thoughts?

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    Google Apps is free for companies < 50. how many are you?
    – apneadiving
    Jan 27, 2011 at 12:19
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    What does this have to do with Ruby on Rails and Heroku?
    – Beerlington
    Jan 27, 2011 at 12:55
  • My thought is that this is completely off topic for SO. Migrating.
    – Will
    Jan 27, 2011 at 13:09
  • Apneadiving: currently less than 50 who need email address'. Will: Ooops, my mistake with the tagging. Thanks for migrating the topic
    – Christian Fazzini
    Jan 27, 2011 at 17:00

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Google Apps is one that we are considering. However, they are charging $50 per user, per year. Not so bad, considering the quality and the features they offer.

It's free for less than 50 users which makes it a great solution if you're working with a small company.

Rackspace Email hosting is fairly cheap coming in around $24 a year per user versus $50 with google.

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  • How is Rackspace's spam filtering and webmail interface though? Oh, and the $50/user/year is correct: google.com/apps/intl/en/business/gmail.html --but it's for the entire Google Apps Suite, not just Gmail.
    – Lèse majesté
    Jan 27, 2011 at 15:09
  • Click the link to rackspace email, the very first picture you see is the email interface =)
    – XOPJ
    Jan 27, 2011 at 15:35
  • or even better, go here and test it : email.rackspace.com/a/…
    – XOPJ
    Jan 27, 2011 at 15:36
  • Not bad. No labels, but some people prefer folders over labels anyway. Much better than Squirrel Mail. =P But what about spam filtering? Also, the demo link should be: email.rackspace.com/a/ext/demo/launch.php
    – Lèse majesté
    Jan 27, 2011 at 15:46
  • Since Google Apps offers a free version for less than 50 accounts/users. I am also assuming that the privacy policy is still at par with the paid version right? i.e. hoping google or any of it's staff don't prowl into our emails
    – Christian Fazzini
    Jan 27, 2011 at 17:04
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I've migrated all my e-mail clients to Google Apps. They are all on the free version (up-to 50 Users, not as much space and not as high as a guarantee for uptime).

50 Users doesn't include groups / aliases You still get the normal gmail space of about 10GB The uptime is still over 99.9%

Since '07, I've only had my clients call me two , maybe three times with issues. I've got about two dozen clients on google apps. The service is solid.

A couple of the things I like, you can activesync for cell phones, so calendar and contacts on most all smartphones. You've got calendar and contact sharing, and I believe they've pushed out the ability to share inboxes. So you are really getting a full exchange-style mail services .. for free.

On top of mail/calendar/contacts you get a private area for documents a sites ( like a wiki ). Their service is really top notch I can't praise it more really :)

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