Best domain hosting (only need email forwarding)

nightwish · 7 Jun 2023 at 16:15

I've lost patience with 123-Reg, need somewhere else to stash the family's domain names. I have 7 in total, and all I really need is email forwarding. Don't mind paying a nominal fee, if the service is worth it, but since my requirements are pretty minimal, if I can get away without paying (apart from domain name registration/renewal fees of course), then that would great. Any recomendations?

Quartz · 7 Jun 2023 at 16:16

I use Fasthosts and their Catch-all forwarding.

nightwish · 7 Jun 2023 at 16:36

Thanks, will check them out.

Edit: TY mods!

visibleman · 7 Jun 2023 at 17:44

Stablepoint and Allhost.co.uk are both pretty decent but it's worth checking with your domain registrar as some, like Porkbun, offer free email forwarding with domains.

Glanza · 8 Jun 2023 at 08:48

20i is where we have all our domains currently.

nightwish · 20 Jun 2023 at 10:55

This is why I'm leaving 123-Reg FWIW: https://forums.theregister.com/forum/all/2023/06/19/123_reg_customers_caught_out/

Dirk Diggler · 5 Oct 2023 at 21:28

Quartz said:
I use Fasthosts and their Catch-all forwarding.

Hope you don't mind me jumping in here - how does this work?

I'm using Microsoft Business Basic at the moment and I want to switch to an email only host that I can configure Outlook to handle the email. I already have the domain bought and paid for, I just need a service to handle the email via Outlook (or another app as long as it has push support).

TIA

Spleen Sauce · 7 Oct 2023 at 09:38

Cloudflare

Silenced · 9 Oct 2023 at 07:31

Spleen Sauce said:
Cloudflare

I'm using Cloudflare to email forward to Gmail but I have found on several occasions my emails are delayed heavily due to Cloudflare being temporarily blocked by Google - something to be aware of

Gimpymoo · 11 Oct 2023 at 10:18

Stablepoint.

Free "catch all" email forwarding.

Dirk Diggler · 11 Oct 2023 at 10:35

Gimpymoo said:
Stablepoint.

Free "catch all" email forwarding.

Is that via the £1.99 web hosting package?

Gimpymoo · 11 Oct 2023 at 16:39

Dirk Diggler said:
Is that via the £1.99 web hosting package?

Yes.

That package only supports one domain though.

Dirk Diggler · 11 Oct 2023 at 17:46

Gimpymoo said:
Yes.

That package only supports one domain though.

Cheers, I'll get a look at that.

Dirk Diggler · 12 Oct 2023 at 15:20

I've went with Stablepoint. First impressions are very positive and I've got it set up on my Android phone via Bluemail so no need for forwarders or anything like that.

nightwish · 13 Oct 2023 at 09:56

Yeah, I'm with Stablepoint now too. Seems they have pretty comprehensive options for configuring email in all sorts of ways. Not had any issues so far.

uvarvu · 20 Oct 2023 at 15:27

Just use AWS, I'm paying £0 this year to host my website (admittedly it's static) and also use it for my icloud email domain. Once I move to YouFibre I'll be behind a CGNAT so I might have a go at setting up a VPS which will be cheaper than paying the ISP for a static IP. It's nice having these options with my personal AWS account.

visibleman · 20 Oct 2023 at 16:42

uvarvu said:
Just use AWS, I'm paying £0 this year to host my website (admittedly it's static) and also use it for my icloud email domain. Once I move to YouFibre I'll be behind a CGNAT so I might have a go at setting up a VPS which will be cheaper than paying the ISP for a static IP. It's nice having these options with my personal AWS account.

Worth looking at Oracle's free instances (AMD or ARM).

Cromulent · 21 Oct 2023 at 02:34

porkbun.com | Free Email Forwarding

porkbun.com

I highly recommend Porkbun. Great company and free email forwarding.

Rudall · 3 Apr 2024 at 15:56

nightwish said:
I've lost patience with 123-Reg, need somewhere else to stash the family's domain names.

I'm in exactly the same position.
Could you please say what you ended up doing?
Thank you.

Gimpymoo · 3 Apr 2024 at 15:58

Throughly recommend Stablelpoint, one of the few GOOD independent hosters around.

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