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I have an all singing web hosting package due to expire in a couple of weeks. Renewal will be about £250 for three years. I've realised what I really need is one or possibly 2 email hosting accounts and nothing else. What's a cost effective easy way to do this?

Current hosting is with TSO and I think it would be easiest to stay with them but I'm open to other options.

What would be perfect would eb to move the mail servers to Google and never have to worry again - is that possible?

Also, if anybody does migration like this and would do it all for me for a reasonable fee then let me know - I need this done by about 12th Jan.

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My emails are name@private_domain.co.uk style - I own the domains via TSO and will keep them probably for another year but look to transition to GMail or similar.

I interact with my email via GMail - on PC, tablet and phone and it works great - it's set to pick the email up from TSO. I use GMails SMTP servers to send
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There's currently an annoying 15 min or so delay with email arriving at my domain and being available in GMail. It would be nice to fix that. I have a paid for account with Google One so have lots of storage.

I've had one of the email addresses since email was first a thing and it's everywhere so I kind of need not to lose it.....
 
Were your sites on TSO one of those transferred to Cpanel without being told and then faced with a massive cost rise?

I had a couple of clients that had that so I transferred them elsewhere and the one who dropped his site but kept the email I put him with ZOHO.

All free but tricky to set up. He said it works well so alls well.
 
Might be worth looking at UK2. I've been using them for about 20 years now for hosting and email.
 
Harriers9 said:
Were your sites on TSO one of those transferred to Cpanel without being told and then faced with a massive cost rise?

I had a couple of clients that had that so I transferred them elsewhere and the one who dropped his site but kept the email I put him with ZOHO.

All free but tricky to set up. He said it works well so alls well.
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Not the OP but I was with TSO for at least 12 years for a couple of projects and had one of their Gridhost packages, was a great service, no transfer for us though they just said see you later and closed it down. They did give 3 months notice though.

If you want to use Google you could use Google Workspace, which includes mail, but for two accounts you're going to be paying more than £250 for 3 years. It is $6 per user per month.
 
Harriers9 said:
Were your sites on TSO one of those transferred to Cpanel without being told and then faced with a massive cost rise?

I had a couple of clients that had that so I transferred them elsewhere and the one who dropped his site but kept the email I put him with ZOHO.

All free but tricky to set up. He said it works well so alls well.
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TBH I've been pretty happy with TSO. I know they have had issues but I got a sweet deal for 3 years, paid them and everything has been fine.

I'll take a look at Zoho - but tricky to set up isn't where I want to be right now :)
 
JonathanRyan said:
There's currently an annoying 15 min or so delay with email arriving at my domain and being available in GMail. It would be nice to fix that. I have a paid for account with Google One so have lots of storage.
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That's relatively easy to fix albeit a little technical.

At the moment you have Google set to suck the emails from your TSO account every 15 minutes - hence the delay.

What you need to do is change your MX records on TSO to point to your Google account, so it will automatically forward your email;

Your Google account then becomes 'live'.

This will have other benefits. For example, if you logged in to your native TSO account, I'm willing to bet that there's a spam/trash folder that is brimming with unread/undeleted
mail. Once the MX is set, this will all be dealt with by Google.
 
Ionos are good and reasonably priced, been with them for many years
 
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