Ability to Receive email@ my personal domain through MobileMe

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Ability to Receive email@ my personal domain through MobileMe

I asked my current web hosting service about switching over to have Apple host my domain 2pi.ca so that I could use iWeb at its full power on my website. I was told that I'd loose my two email accounts which currently work @2pi.ca. Does that have to be the case right now with MobileMe?

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.4.10), contact me at feedback@2pi.ca

Posted on Dec 28, 2009 2:36 PM

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Old Toad

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Dec 28, 2009 4:56 PM in response to ncmm

Welcome to the Apple Discussions. If you drop your current hosting service then you will drop the other services they provide and I assume your two email addresses are included.

If your site is a commercial or ecommerce site I would not change your host for MobileMe. It's slower, more unreliable (due to the high server side overhead software to support the social networking aspects of MobileMe), there's no ear to ear customer support and it's against the Terms of Use for MobileMe accounts (although I've not heard of any site getting bumped off for that reason).

You could keep the current account to use the email and still host the site on MMe.

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ncmm Author

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Dec 28, 2009 6:23 PM in response to Old Toad

I respect my current hosting service and what you say is consistent with what they told me.

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Ethmoid

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Dec 29, 2009 1:29 AM in response to ncmm

What you also have to remember is that Apple DOES NOT HOST DOMAIN NAMES - it can only host your website, so using a MobileMe account will only allow you to host a website, but not a domain name. You need your domain name registrar for this, but you can certainly link the two together by publishing your site to MobileMe and then either using CNAME forwarding or ordinary web forwarding.

You are also correct that if you cancel your web hosting that you have at present, then you will loose your domain name e-mail addresses as these are linked to your current hosting account and domain name - nothing to do with MobileMe or a .me e-mail address.

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