re email ... google apps is pretty cheep and most of the time good enough for what customers need ... just an idea without wanting to start flamewars here :-)
cheers lenz On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 11:09 AM, lenz <[email protected]> wrote: > i used to do everything on my own, now i have companies i rely on and > have fallback companies i can migrate to if things go wrong. makes me > a way happier man and dramatically reduces my growth of grey hair. > if they want only one guy to talk to, fine, that is you, where you > manage the stuff is not important to them, so just use some service > that works for you. > we work on a customer account that enables the owner of a domain to > grant management rights to a web designer/developer for management > exactly for the problem you describe :-) > > cheers > lenz > > On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Super Steve <[email protected]> wrote: >> The client is keen to just have one port of call if things go wrong, >> hence their desire for us to handle hosting the site and also their >> email. Plus it's always seemed much neater to me to have as much as >> possible under one roof rather than split things off. But your >> suggestion would get around my problem so I'll investigate further. >> >> On Mar 25, 10:47 am, lenz <[email protected]> wrote: >>> just a short question ... why do you want the nameservers at all? all >>> you need is a couple a-records that point to your host (for the domain >>> itself, forwww.domain, maybe blog or so) the rest can happily stay >>> with who ever looks after the domain. don't know freeparking too well >>> but i am sure they have some sort of DNS editor where you can simply >>> add records as needed. that way email remains how it is set up and all >>> are happy (hopefully) >>> >>> cheers >>> lenz >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Jochen Daum <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > Hi, >>> >>> > On 25 March 2010 10:30, Super Steve <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >> This is a little bit off topic for this group but I thought there's >>> >> plenty of experience here so I might get some good answers. >>> >>> >> I've got a new client that has asked me to build a new site for them >>> >> (they previously had an old site built by someone that has now >>> >> vanished overseas). The site is nearly ready and I have to put some >>> >> thought into the best way to migrate their hosting from the old >>> >> company over to me. >>> >>> >> At the moment their domain name, hosting and email is all with >>> >> Freeparking.co.nz but I will be taking over the hosting. I'm quite >>> >> happy for the domain name to stay with Freeparking, and I know it's >>> >> just a matter of logging into their Freeparking account and changing >>> >> the name servers to point to me. >>> >>> >> The thing I'm worried about is their email. I can set up mailboxes >>> >> for them on my service but I believe as soon as I change the name >>> >> servers Freeparking will drop their mailboxes. >>> >>> > I won't research if this is true, I just take that a given for now. >>> >>> >>This could cause a >>> >> problem because there may be a day or more where email will still be >>> >> sent to Freeparking due to the delay in other systems updating their >>> >> copies of the zone record. >>> >>> > You need to find a email provider that can host your email without >>> > having to have the DNS for it. All of them do it, you just can't use >>> > Freeparking as they have the DNS currently. >>> >>> > Move DNS to somewhere without email, but keep MX records in place, so >>> > they point to Freeparking. I'm pretty sure they won't drop the email >>> > boxes, because DNS is somewhere else, only Xtra does that (better >>> > check though) >>> >>> > Then set up new email and point MX to the new server. Wait 24 h. >>> >>> > Then move DNS to final place. >>> >>> > BTW, we just discovered this problem as well with Webdrive, so will >>> > likely move DNS somewhere completely else in any case, currently >>> > probably nettica.com >>> >>> > HTH, Jochen >>> >>> > -- >>> > NZ PHP Users Group:http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug >>> > To post, send email to [email protected] >>> > To unsubscribe, send email to >>> > [email protected] >>> >>> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> > nzphpug+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words >>> > "REMOVE ME" as the subject. >>> >>> -- >>> twitter: @norbu09 >>> current project: iWantMyName.com >>> painless domain registration (finally) >> >> -- >> NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug >> To post, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe, send email to >> [email protected] >> >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> nzphpug+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words >> "REMOVE ME" as the subject. >> > > > > -- > twitter: @norbu09 > current project: iWantMyName.com > painless domain registration (finally) > -- twitter: @norbu09 current project: iWantMyName.com painless domain registration (finally) -- NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nzphpug+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
