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Is it really worth it to pay for a custom email domain?

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As far as privacy is concerned, there is no advantage in my opinion. I have a custom domain email address because I want to be independent of my email provider. By that I mean that I want to be able to switch to a different email address without telling anyone my new email address. Answer from essenbisderarztkommt on reddit.com

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r/privacy on Reddit: Is it really worth it to pay for a custom email domain?

March 26, 2024 -

For what I know, you seem to be basically stuck paying a subscription until basically the rest of your life unless you move everything that is set to go to that email. Am I wrong and it is worth it? I want to get one it’s just I don’t want to be stuck in something like this.

As far as privacy is concerned, there is no advantage in my opinion. I have a custom domain email address because I want to be independent of my email provider. By that I mean that I want to be able to switch to a different email address without telling anyone my new email address.

If you're concerned about having to pay for email, then you may have your considerations backwards. I'm not saying that as an insult. The thing is that email is a service and it isn't a free one. Sure, gmail doesn't charge you, but that's because they make money off of you. Far, far more money than the service they are providing to you because they are spying on every single character of every email you send and receive. You ARE paying for your email. You just need to decide if you want to pay with your wallet or little pieces of your soul. Privacy via email is a different discussion, but one you are in the right place for.

reddit.com › r/selfhosted › cheapest way to use your own domain for your email?

r/selfhosted on Reddit: Cheapest way to use your own domain for your email?

May 31, 2023 -

This week I saw a post here showing how you can host your email with icloud for really cheap and it got me thinking about this.

What are some self-hosted solutions for email with your own domain and what are the costs associated with them?

Also open to non-self-hosted options like the icloud one.

What are some self-hosted solutions for email with your own domain and what are the costs associated with them? Friends don't let friends run mail servers.

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r/Emailmarketing on Reddit: Any way to get a custom email address for a reasonable price?

February 9, 2025 -

I have a website with SquareSpace and I’m signed up for the Basic plan at almost $200/year. Domain name was purchased with SquareSpace. In order to have Mailerlite integration, I have to upgrade my website to the Core plan, which will bring it up to about $270/year. Okay, fine, I’ve accepted that.

Now it seems to be HEAVILY recommended that I get a custom email address (ex. [email protected]) for deliverability purposes. With Google Workspace, which is what SquareSpace recommends, that is ANOTHER $86/year minimum. For pretty much nothing. Mailerlite is my EMS and SquareSpace is providing hosting and website building services, but $86/year for simply my own name that I already paid for as an email address is something I don’t want to pay for. That’s something that should have already been included in one of the other services I’m paying for.

My point isn’t to come here and vent, though. Rather, I would like to know if there are any other services in which I could create a custom email address using my SquareSpace domain and use with Mailerlite for either cheap or completely free. Again, not to sound cheap, but that $86/year isn’t even for any actual services; Mailerlite is my EMS. I would just like to have an email address that isn’t a gmail account.

For context, I have a month-old website. It’s an author website, though I still haven’t published any books yet. Waiting on my book cover commission.

Tl;dr I would like any recommendations for a provider of cheap custom email addresses in which I could use my existing SquareSpace domain as the email domain.

Custom email is an expensive but necessary thing if you want to appear professional. Google costs about $7 per month, but I believe Godaddy is still running a solid discount for something like $2.99/month for yearly pricing - meaning you have to pay for a year at a time. This is for Microsoft/Outlook hosted professional email. You may have needed to purchase your domain through Godaddy, I'm not sure. I'm not aware of any cheaper professional email.

You can use Zoho mail for $15 a year per user. Then just set that up with your DNS. You can also add aliases, etc. if you need help setting that up DM me

reddit.com › r/videography › what and how much do you pay for website/domain and custom email? is it worth it?

r/videography on Reddit: What and how much do you pay for website/domain and custom email? Is it worth it?

October 3, 2024 -

New videographer looking for tips if it’s worth it for a custom domain and website. And how much you guys are actually paying for it.

A domain/ email is definitely worth it. How are you asking clients to invest thousands of dollars in you when you can’t spend the bare amount to get a professional email? A base website is fine and probably not required for clients under $2-5k… but im learning (as I’m in the process of revamping my site) a good site is needed for clients over $10K-ish

Depending how your Clients are, I think it's a nice touch that makes Clients see you as legitimate versus a bit less established. I use Squarespace to pay for it all and it's about $200/yr CAD for my website + domain.

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r/microsoft365 on Reddit: Cheapest plan for email with custom domain?

May 3, 2025 -

I currently have the business standard (no teams) plan for $123/yr and I'm curious if there's a way to get something cheaper? I only use the exchange email service with my custom domain.

Exchange Online (Plan 1) is supposed to be $4 per month per user. Not sure if that’s able to be subscribed to stand alone though. Seems like that would be the cheapest option though

The barebones email only plan is Exchange Online Plan 1 for $4/month, which is the exact same Exchange service you get with Business Standard, without anything else. You can also get Exchange Online Kiosk which is about half the price of Exchange Online Plan 1 but you only get a 2GB mailbox instead of 50GB and no POP/IMAP support. Since these subscriptions don't have Microsoft Office apps, you cannot connect these email addresses to the new Microsoft Outlook app for Windows, you have to use the Outlook website or Outlook Mobile apps.

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r/coldemail on Reddit: What is the price to have a microsoft email with custom domain?

November 30, 2024 -

I created one in zoho but found out that it doesn't work with many tools and the deliverability isn't the best. And if I delete my zoho account will I be able to create one in Microsoft with the same domain? (my domain is from namecheap if it helps)

Thank you. Good night.

You're right, email deliverability is key! Microsoft 365 Business Basic, which lets you use your custom domain, starts around $6/user/month. Deleting your Zoho account shouldn't impact using the same domain with Microsoft. Check Namecheap's DNS settings – you'll need to update them to point to Microsoft. Good luck!

it’s around $5/month for a Microsoft 365 email account. I recommend you set up mostly Google Workspace email accounts as they have the best deliverability (don’t use resellers). then connect your email accounts to a cold email sending tool that has inbox rotation like Lemlist or Emailchaser so volume is spread between multiple email accounts.

reddit.com › r/smallbusiness › cheapest and best way to get a domain name with a private email

r/smallbusiness on Reddit: Cheapest and best way to get a Domain name with a private email

June 22, 2025 -

Hi there

I was wondering what people think is the best way to get domain hosting and a private domain email address together?

Initially Go Daddy is cheap at £21.87 (GBP) for the first year for both products but then it jumps to £90.87 a year thereafter.

Eventually, my website will be with WordPress anyway. Can they provide a private domain email address?

l am still in the business development stages so l don't want to commit too much too early (a common problem l believe). Are there any better ways around this?

Thanks everyone

Cloudflare registers domain names at cost and has free email forwarding.

Namecheap.com is typically the cheapest for domains and you can add on an email address afterward. Zoho also has a pretty cheap email option too

reddit.com › r/entrepreneur › what's the cheapest way to get a custom domain with email up and running?

r/Entrepreneur on Reddit: What's the cheapest way to get a custom domain with email up and running?

August 13, 2015 -

I've come up with a quick idea I want to try this weekend but there's a chance it might be a complete waste of time. What's the cheapest way of getting a domain with email up and running?

At the moment I have to buy a domain (£9) and get hosting (£35 at least) and I'm literally on a shoe string. Is there anyone that will allow the setting up of emails without hosting? Is that possible? A catch-all would do.

Gmail for business.

You can even try it free for 14 days. Although you still may have to pay for the domain.

Last time I looked, Zoho had a free business email service. You can just make the proper MX record entries in your DNS at your registrar, and be up and running without the need to buy web hosting for your domain.

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reddit.com › r/domains › how to make custom domain email for free?

r/Domains on Reddit: How to make custom domain email for free?

September 3, 2025 -

I have a domain but I would wanna avoid paying 15 euros per month to google just to make an email. What do you recommend me?

Zoho Mail. You get 5 free custom emails for each domain.

Are you an apple user? if yes, Do you pay for any icloud+ plan as icloud + plan woudl allow you to host 5 domains for email.

reddit.com › r/smallbusiness › cheapest way to get a domain, email, and build a site?

r/smallbusiness on Reddit: Cheapest way to get a domain, email, and build a site?

August 14, 2024 -

I'm a 16 year old photographer and I make my money through weddings and portraits. Right now I get around 1 wedding per month and even less portraits, so I'm looking into building a website, and buying a domain. I'm young and I don't know a lot about this stuff, if I buy the domain for £20/ year, do I also get the email? How do I use the email?? Or do I have to go through Google to host it? And for the website I'm looking at wix, but I can't afford the 15/month for wix and also the 25/month for Google, not until I get more clients.. Can someone give me the step by step to get the domain, the email, and build a website for less than £30/month, or is that just not possible?

edit: thanks for all the answers, sorry if I don't reply to them all but I am reading them and writing down the info, thanks :)

edit 2: solved! I've gone through Google workspace starter, £5/month (you have to sign up for the business plus, and then change subscription). I went through Google for the storage and email hosting. I'm making the site with Google sites, but in the future I'll head over to wix or squarespace.

I now own tysphotostash.com and hopefully this is the start of a successful business? (check it out if you want but it's all over the place ATM)

Good god, the amount of terrible advice in this thread is astounding. Setting up your own website is dirt cheap and very easy once you know how and ensures you retain control should your business grow big and you want to scale. Go to namecheap.com and get their most basic plan (Stellar Shared Hosting). Domain name for a .co.uk is $7 a year. Hosting is $45 a year with 50% off the first year ($22). So we're talking like $3 a month the first year and $5 a month second year. 30 email addresses come with it. So if you pick tygeorgiouphotography.co.uk , you can make a [email protected] email, and a [email protected] , etc. They give you webpage you use to get and send your email, or you can link it to another email tool, get it on your phone email app, etc. They have instructions on how to do all the options. Once you're done purchasing, Install Wordpress on your domain. Again, they have instructions, it's pretty much two clicks and you're done. Then install a free photography site template, replace the stock photos with your own photos and the stock text with your text and you're done. Edit: grammar

Purchase domain. Should be pretty cheap like $10 for the year. Sign up for Zoho mail. You can input your domain so it’s more official than garbage google email addresses. Most website hosting give free options otherwise you can pay monthly or yearly.

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r/webdev on Reddit: Cheapest way to get domain specific emails?

December 18, 2022 -

I have clients using g suite. Is there a less expensive alternative considering all I want is the [email protected] and not all the rest that comes with g suite?

I use Namecheap Private Email which is $1/month. Best and cheapest I've found.

If they are using cloudflare as dns, they can get free cloud flare email forwarding. It works similar to other DNS email forwarding service. If they cannot use cloudflare(since we need to use its nameserver), you can self hosted a tool like https://github.com/arithmetric/aws-lambda-ses-forwarder It's powered by AWS Lambda so work flawlessly. If you want to self hosted, I strongly recomend https://github.com/foxcpp/maddy since it's just a single binary to run. And finally, I myself build my own email forwarding service https://mailwip.com with a plan of $1 per month or $10 yearly.

reddit.com › r/lifeprotips › lpt: get a custom domain name for your business, don't publish your isp email account or web mail service. you risk losing your lifeline to your customers and it looks shady!

r/LifeProTips on Reddit: LPT: Get a custom domain name for your business, don't publish your ISP email account or web mail service. You risk losing your lifeline to your customers and it looks shady!

May 14, 2014 -

Far too often I see people posting their gmail, hotmail or ISP email address on signage, business cards, vehicles, etc. This locks you in to a potentially costly and compromising situation if you decide to move, change ISPs or your service provider goes out of business. For a relatively low yearly fee you can get your own domain name and have it forwarded to any provider you like. Boost your company profile!

I am always shocked when I see business cards with an ISP email address on it. Even gmail is better than that, but come on, a domain name is so cheap it is stupid not to have one. I have one and no business whatsoever.

My parents literally just had this happen with their ISP email address. They upgraded to business class Internet, and found out they weren't able to keep their old email addresses because of it. I think they ended up buying a domain and switching everything over. As for Gmail, I'd say it's pretty stable. It's run by a company that doesn't have any intention of leaving the web space any time soon, and too many people use it for it to be realistic to close. At least you don't run the risk of losing your email when you upgrade your service.

reddit.com › r/selfhosted › cheap custom domain email service w/ good ip address reputation for day-to-day emails

r/selfhosted on Reddit: Cheap Custom Domain Email Service w/ Good IP Address Reputation for Day-to-day Emails

May 8, 2023 -

I'm in the market for an email service for my custom domain name. I only need one account. Below are my requirements. Any good suggestions?

Cheap: Zoho, MXroute, and NameCheap seems to fit the bill.
Good IP Repuation: I'm honestly not sure how to check this out if I don't even know the shared IP addresses that the service uses. I imagine Google Workspace would be perfect but it's too expensive.
No SMTP Relay Service: I actually currently use Amazon SES and I find that my emails sometimes go to recipients' junk mail folders. So, I don't want to use an SMTP service that's meant for automated messages or mass mailing.

This has never been asked here before...

Used Zoho with custom domain for 5+ years. Cost 0. Problems 0.

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r/ProtonMail on Reddit: Custom Domains

July 8, 2023 -

For those with custom domains:

-- cost per year

-- cost per yeat after initial/intorductory offer

-- length of intro offer and length of renewal

-- SSL/TLS cert cost, if used

-- perceived benefits

is the long term costs worth it, especially for the average user.

The only thing I am paying for is the domain and the email provider (Proton in this case). My .nl domain is like 6 euros per year, I am not going to worry about such a small amount. The biggest benefit is that you're not stuck to an email provider imo. You can always change your mail records to another one. If it's worth it for the average user? I don't think so. If you are already planning to use Proton, then on of their provided domainnames should be good enough.

I used to love my gmail account. Then one day Google started tracking my purchases and I left within a week. My own domain costs 10 euro a year. I picked my own name because I know I will never want to let that one go. I picked a provider that also just auto-renews my domain. The benefit is that I can now switch providers at any time, changing your relationship with the internet. It offers more long term stability. And I can switch between infinite addresses without any issue. And people will never send stuff to the wrong address. My gmail often received mails intended for other people. The downside is that your name is tied to your email. And that most email providers ask money to use your own domain.

reddit.com › r/selfhosted › thinking of using a custom domain for personal email – worth it?

r/selfhosted on Reddit: Thinking of using a custom domain for personal email – worth it?

June 9, 2025 -

Hey all,

I’m planning to get a custom domain (10 years via Cloudflare) and use it for personal email only, something like: [email protected] for main/personal use [email protected] for logins/newsletters Maybe a wildcard or spam@ for other stuff

Still deciding between self-hosting (Mailcow, Mail-in-a-Box) vs. using services like Migadu, Proton, or iCloud+.

Curious to know: Do you use a custom domain just for personal email? Are you self-hosting or using a provider? Any issues with deliverability, spam, or maintenance? Do you think it’s worth the efforts?

Would love to hear your setups and thoughts before I jump in.

It is worth it, but not self hosted. Email is the one thing that it's really not worth self hosting. I use Proton for my provider alongside my custom domain. It's not free, but, very secure / reliable.

I use MXRoute for domain-specific email. They have an excellent reputation for delivery and provide several Webmail options. Keep an eye out for periodic deals, particularly around Black Friday. Another option is Cloudflare Email Routing for when you don't want a full-blown email service, but just want email sent to an address reliably forwarded to another email service (like an existing Gmail, Outlook, or any account). You can set up a catch-all address where ANYTHING sent to the domain is forwarded, or you can define routing rules for specific addresses. It's free and quite comprehensive, though it is only forwarding.

reddit.com › r/webdev › creating a custom email domain for almost free, asking to check how i would do this.

Creating a custom email domain for almost free, asking to check how I would do this. : r/webdev

October 26, 2023 - I'm using postale.io for my personal email ([email protected]). It's only 1$ a month for one address, and they have bigger plans if you need to have more users ... ZohoMail offers 5 free custom domain emails.

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r/Domains on Reddit: Domain Email Account

October 16, 2024 -

I’m looking to start my own domain and would like to have my own @companyname.com email accounts. Only needing 1-10 email addresses. Looking for possibly free to start, or a cheap solution as I’m just starting my business.

I’ve tried Zoho and i don’t want to use it.

Any suggestions and plan of actions?

TIA.

Mxroute still has their 2024 black Friday deal. $30 for 3 years, so $10 a year is a good deal. 25GB shared between all the accounts. Has IMAP access so you're not tied to a specific mail app. https://accounts.mxroute.com/index.php?/cart/black-friday-2024/

reddit.com › r/webhosting › custom domain for personal use - yes or no? also where is the best place to buy a domain?

r/webhosting on Reddit: Custom domain for personal use - yes or no? also where is the best place to buy a domain?

April 13, 2025 -

Trying to decide if I should use custom domain for personal email or not. What do you think about it. Also from where to buy custom domain?

Personally, I would use a custom domain for my personal email service. This way, you're provider-independent and can change email providers as you please without having to change your email address everywhere. I personally don't have any recommendations for registering. I personally use Cloudflare and a small local Hoster

Yes, get your own domain for email. I have had mine for 27 years now. These days, I use Porkbun for domains.

reddit.com › r/smallbusiness › any free e-mail service for a custom domain & business?

r/smallbusiness on Reddit: Any Free E-Mail Service for a Custom Domain & Business?

May 11, 2025 -

I just registered a domain and though I am not doing anything with it right now, I would like to connect a free e-mail service to it that is preferably compatible with MS Outlook. Are there any good ones out there? Recommendations great appreciated!

I don’t think any of the old tricks for free mail with a custom domain really work anymore. Self hosting is an option but the effort is very high to maintain deliverability. I believe Zoho mail is still less than $2 a month but I think they’ve killed their free plan

The only ones I can think of off the top of my head are Zoho and maybe GoDaddy.

reddit.com › r/selfhosted › any free email services that support a custom domain?

r/selfhosted on Reddit: Any free email services that support a custom domain?

November 7, 2025 -

Hey everyone!

I know this is probably not all that relevant to self-hosting, but I'm not too sure where else to ask this.

So basically, I recently bought myself a custom email domain for my website, but I want to be able to have a custom email with it.

I initially set up Cloudflare email forwarding, but the issue I have with that is I cannot reply to emails I receive through it. I tried to set up a custom email server, but ultimately it was beyond my skill level.

ProtonMail is my main email provider, but I only have the free plan. Although I am thinking about upgrading, I am wondering if there are any email services out there that have custom domain support for free. I know there are a lot of cheap services out there, like MXroute, but I have decided that if I am going to pay for something, I am just going to get a ProtonMail Plus plan. However, I do want to look into all the free options.

If there are ones that support IMAP/SMTP, then that is a plus, but if a free service doesn't offer that, then it doesn't bother me.

I have heard a fair amount of talk about Zoho Mail, but it doesn't seem to have a free plan as far as I have looked. Skiff would have been an amazing option, but it doesn't exist anymore.

Are there any free services out there that match what I am looking for?

iCloud if you have an iPhone and pay for storage. In general there’s no such thing as a free lunch, though

Zoho does have a free plan but it's a little tricky to locate. Go to the Zoho Mail Pricing page. You won't find the free plan in the pricing table, but below it you can find the "Forever Free Plan" with a signup button. They allow you to create 5 free email accounts with your own domain.