Due to some issues at my host, some of my websites, including Laumania.net has been down for some days. Laumania.net seems to be up and running again now, but there is still some issues with some of my other sites.
During my down time, I were investegating the possiblities of hosting my sites from home. I have a ok connection and computer to run as a server, no problem there. My biggest problem is email hosting. I don't want to run my own email server, as I can't be sure to have a 100 % uptime here at home. This is accepable for a website, if it's down a little while from time to time. But email can't be down, as I will loose emails then.
A solution to this could be Google Apps. I tryed it out yesterday, and it seems to work great! I used laumania.net as my first test domain, and it runs nicely!
First you have to create an account with a domain. Then you have to verify that you own the domain. After that you have to do some DNS changes for your domain, and then you are running. So all emails to my laumania.net domain now is recieved by google and put into my "semi" gmail account.
Read more about how it's working on the link above.