Dreamhost is offering an excellent IMAP and POP3 mail pack of services. My preferred server side mail app with them is Squirrel Mail. Yes, not at all fancy, old folks style, but clean and solid. For the youngsters' tastes, there's also Round Cube webmail in the pack, with a modern interface.

Still, however excellent Dreamhost's webmail might be, it's not Gmail! Moreso,

Dreamhost is the first inviting his panel users to move their mail services out to Google Apps. Whenever you're creating a new domain in Dreamhost's panel, there you are, mid page, staring at some big fat and round square Google buttons: host your mail servers on Google Apps, host your shared scheduling list on Google Calendar, your word documents, pdfs, excel spreadsheets, about any file format, on Google Docs, and so on, you got the picture.

Fact is that Google handles all this stuff better than servers located under the same routing net gates as your own web site. How's that? Well, lots of tech mumble jumble, totally uninteresting, is leading us to the conclusion that Google has built an infrastructure best suited, in the current civil world, for highly differentiated information sharing. And, to my knowledge, it won't be the best if not the safest too (compared to competition).

On the other hand, imagine that you're dreaming of high traffic days on your web site. More visitors means more bytes travelling in and out, through the more or less same gates as your mail traffic, in the case you're hosting mail and files, and the database, in one same basket. Moving mail and documents to Google Apps will help air your public web site's horizons, keeping them crystal clear for the public web client traffic you've been planning for.

I can't remember of a mail migration, comprising years of backlogs, that wasn't successfuly landing into Google Apps. It's versatile, compatibale and taking the load off your servers.

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