I am the webmaster for my homeowner’s association. We have our web site hosted at a turnkey vendor who provides a web site package tailored for HOAs. It works fine. Originally it included 10 email addresses but now they are dropping support for email. We can switch to Rackspace, their provider, and pay $2/month per email address. That’s not expensive, but we only use email addresses for forwarding. We don’t need mail storage, web access, POP access, etc., etc. (Both GoDaddy and Google offer business email at about $5/month per email address.)
Is there a dirt cheap or free way to just get a few forwarders in our domain name?
I can vouch for this company. They’ve been around for more than a decade and I’ve used them for many low-usage sites before.
Edit: Also, did you check with your domain registrar? Some of them will just include free email forwarding for your domain, separate from hosting. It’s just a DNS change for the MX entries and such.
Thanks, I’ve dropped them a request for information.
I did not check with the domain registrar. The domain registration was handled by our web hosting vendor, so I’ll have to check whois. Thanks for that idea also.
If your registrar doesn’t currently do that, another option is just transfer your domain to a registrar who does. It’ll cost less than registration + separate email forwarding.
To be clear, your registrar does not have to be the same as your web host. If the host gives you shit for it, consider switching hosts too… they sound like a rip-off unless they provide exceptional value for HOAs. Who the hell still charges $2/month/address? It’s not 1990 anymore…