Just like being with BT mail.

Thanks for the update - all interesting stuff.
I see a few people here mention TSO and hadn't realised their support is in Bulgaria. Good to hear it works well though

FWIW (might be teaching you to suck eggs...)
It's worth knowing that now you have your own domain it's not as anonymous as email using your ISP. People are able to see possibly personal information using WHOIS. Depending on how your domain name has been registered everyone can see your home address etc.

If it's a co.uk domain then you are able to hide your address (for non-business domains) for free (other TLDs are paid for options) but your real name can't be hidden.

Probably not important, but worth a mention...

This is the forum for facts and frights! B4dger sent me scurrying off to Whois where I was relieved to find that my new domain is registered to Paragon, TSO's parent company, with none of my own details listed. I'm currently working through my lists to advise everyone of my new address, amazing how many contacts build up in a decade. Then I'll call BT and give notice of departure after 40+ years. Regards to everyone and thanks again.

In reply to a post by b4dger:

If it's a co.uk domain then you are able to hide your address ....

In fact, any .uk

Keep BT running as long as possible until 1 May, but only reading from it. As I suggested earlier. That way some may pop up that you've missed.

I hope you are sending from the new one to tell people, not the BT one. That makes it so if they reply it will tend to go into their address book automatically.

PS - I've sent you a PM.

Edited by RobertoS (Fri 25-Mar-16 19:29:08)

I just checked the whois for my domains registered with TSOhosts on the Lite package,
They show with my own name nas Registrant , address withheld and Registrar: Paragon Internet Group Ltd t/a Tsohost

Not wanting to highjack the OP thread, rather add to it.

Can I ask [as a complete novice] about fastmail user accounts?

If I buy the fasmail service as a 'me and my family' option will i be able to add my wife as an alias rather than having to pay for another account?
I have a few email accounts I need to move over, 8 in total so buying a separate account for those starts to get a bit high price wise.

I want to get the enhanced package so the master user is:

derek @ fastymail..ccom

with my wife & other family members as alias:

wife @ fastymail..ccom
cat @ fastymail..ccom
dog @ fastymail..ccom
kids @ fastymail..ccom

I am trying to get this sorted as quickly as possible so any help would be appreciated.

Used to provide hosting back when I was in college to a few friends.etc but with work commitments.etc decided I no longer had time to maintain a shared hosting box so moved it to a reseller plan on tsoHost rather than just ditch the sites.

They're certainly not the cheapest around but they've always been decent to deal with if I have a problem. Don't really use their email system that much but I think a couple of my friends do I've not had any complaints about it.

Another one to look at if you only want a single mailbox is Office365, it's more expensive than standard email hosting (Afaik something like 3.50 a month) but it's good if you work across multiple devices and want to sync contacts/calender.etc with your phone. Works out to expensive for most people if you have a lot of mailboxes though.

Normally one thing I would recommend doing is registering the domains through a different provider to the one you use for the hosting/email service then if you decide you don't like the service provider it's much easier to move.

Now in the case of someone like TsoHost it doesn't matter quite as much as they've proven themselves themselves to be reputable and I very much doubt they'd hold your domain hostage but some less scrupulous providers would register the domain to themselves and then try and charge you considerably for releasing it if you wanted to leave them.

The problem with the hosting industry is it's very easy to set one self up as a webhost, so you get a lot of kiddies doing it during their summer holidays only to vanish when they get bored of it or the money runs out since unless you are offering something different people are prepared to pay for there's no margin in it.

I'm surprised that's the case, did you sign up to use a 'privacy' service to hide your details?

In normal circumstances you always want a registered domain to be registered in your name and not those of a provider. That way you shouldn't lose control of it if the provider has problems or disappears.

i.e. If it's a .uk TLD then you can go to Nominet and prove who you are etc. to get control back. If a domain doesn't have your details then you would have trouble getting control of it.

Personally see few problems with using Google Mail for free...

It should be able to import all the mail (from POP or IMAP services) and while there are plenty of critics of Google for their adverts on the browser using the content of the mail messages you get, with ad-blocking extras for most browsers, you don't need to see those ads at all (I started with one account several years ago and not seen ads since - I don't, frankly, even know if ads are still displayed!)

Spam filtering works very well, in my experience, multiple GB of storage without any fees at all... For info, I've previously paid for use of Runbox and Fastmail, and considered using Runbox hosting with one of my domains but with dozens of domains it was less awkward to collect my mail in one GMail account (though I now use at least 8 for various lists, work, alerts, etc).

I have a reseller hosting account with Xilo, which provides mailboxes and / or mail forwarding. I tend to use forwarding for myself and clients. Although it is a reseller account, it is essentially shared hosting where I can add multiple domaiins and allocate disk space and other facilities as I wish.

They have a cluster of mail servers for sensible and reliable handling of incoming mail, something which is rarely provided when one has shared hosting and might not be done by as many providers as one might hope...