Can someone let me know if we can get free domain names for clients since we have an account with them? Do you have discounts on these domains?
If we are changing domain names for a client, shouldn’t we be responsible for purchasing it too?
Hi all,
We need to have a workshop about our hosting services and how they work. I have a client that wants to know how Host Gator (for example – could be bluehost too – handles email – for example, is there an easy pathway to check her email? Can you check host gator email on a mobile app?
These are questions I didn’t know the answer to – so it would be helpful to be more informed.
thanks.
juliette
All webhosts offer a webmail service, that works just like a gmail client: they give you an url where you enter username and password and log in to your mailbox.
If the webhost gives you the smtp server, you can always link your @domain.com account to outlook express or also gmail.
i am wondering how hostgator does it – specifically can a user get their hostgator email from their phone?
In my experience, none of the email interfaces that come from these hosting accounts are particularly user-friendly. In addition, they have to go to another place to see their email.
My suggestion would be that all of our clients have some friendlier email — usually one they’re already using — such as gmail, yahoo, etc. and that we forward their name@sitename.com email to them at their gmail/yahoo id.
All of you PCs are doing this already. You all have either a page1pros.org id or a counselingwise.com id and we forward your email to your gmail id. You can tell what is “work” related email compared to personal email, and you can respond to or author emails from your “work” id.
take a look at: http://support.hostgator.com/articles/specialized-help/email/setting-up-email-for-the-apple-iphone
basically, they give you the configuration parameters and you use the Mail program in your ithing (iphone, ipad, etc) or even in your desktop client (outlook, thunderbird..)
Becky DeGrossa is discussing. 
Juan Villegas, and 
Juliette Cook are discussing.
Becky DeGrossa 8:59 pm on February 6, 2014 Permalink | Log in to Reply
We pay hostgator just like they do. On top of that, we add extra services — security monitoring and WP and plugin upgrades.
We are not a registrar. We simply provide add-ons to hosting and package it all in a hosting package that is more affordable and more secure than if they were to obtain those services on their own.
So, no… we don’t get involved in the domain name acquisition game. They can do that on their own.
Becky DeGrossa 9:08 pm on February 6, 2014 Permalink | Log in to Reply
There is really no such thing as changing domain names. You buy a new one and discard the old. We make a recommendation on what we think is best and they agree or not.
If they don’t want to go to their registrar and purchase a new domain name, we can do it for them in their account with their credit card for our hourly fee.
Domain names are very cheap. We are spending more money talking about than the domain name costs 🙂