Google Is Like Magic
I’m a big fan of Gmail, and I’ve been looking to offload my mailing list email onto another account, so I setup Google apps for my personal domain tonight. When I went to activate the Gmail service, but first I had to switch the MX record for my domain. I have very little DNS experience, so this was scaring me a bit, until I saw that Google had instructions on the page on how to do it. In fact, they had instructions on how to do it for MY HOSTING ACCOUNT. I assume they saw that my DNS servers were all Dreamhost name servers and acted accordingly, but the attention to detail is impressive none the less.
[sorry, just catching up on your blog a bit]
I too am a big fan of Gmail and have used Google Apps since its launch. When I started my new company, I set up mail at my domain, Google Page Creator, Docs, Calendar, and anything else available. When generously asked how many email accounts I thought I might need, I requested and received 100. Pretty cool. I set up five of the 100 while hoping one day to run a company big enough to require more addresses. It worked fabulously well. So the other day when Google finally launched Apps “Premiere,” I was again anxious to jump onto the early adoption bandwagon and sign-up. User accounts for “Premiere” are, it turns out, $50 each. To convert my existing account, Google wanted me to pay $250 for my five existing email accounts. I only really need one at this point, to be honest, so I deleted the other four accounts, paid $50 and voila! — Now I have ONE account rather than 100, and no additional functionality (yet) that I have been able to use. But hey, there are no ads alongside the email now! Funny. And Google Page Creator is completely broken, by the way. I’m sure they’ll work it out eventually.