I always wish to have my own e-mail domain space. You know, something like yourName@yourDomain. It just rulez. :)

Well a lot of things is nice to have, but you have to ask yourself is it feasible? Optimal? The right question about having your own e-mail domain is: Is this optimal?

If you think about it, you will figure out that even nearly is not. First you have to have a server that's mean the hardware (even in virtual machine it demand some hardware resources), a fail safe one. It demands power, power costs ... And this is just beginning. Then you have to install and configure SMTP server, anti virus, anti spam software ... And all of this you have to maintain, backup ... If you sum up, despite if you are an computer geek. You do not want your own email server at home. It just takes too much resources and it is just too unreliable. Period.

But we still want our "own e-mail". What to do? Well it turns out that Google have an answer (as almost always). You surely hear about Google apps. It perfectly solve our problem. It provide e-mail address with our domain on well tested Gmail infrastructure. All you have to to is to play a little with CNAME settings at your domain provider and that's it.

It is perfect example of cloud computing service. It is personalized and it persist in internet realm, somewhere.

From now on I am officially in the cloud, you can reach me at peter@stegnar.com.

PS: You can start here. You can choose two account types. For normal usage, standard version will do.