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So I have not really used my domain for anything but email for the past 10 years but business has been slow so I have decided to build a website to get some more work going. The domain is currently with Plesk which is fine for my email needs but when it comes to building a website it really sucks, PHP is way out of date and wordpress won't work and after messing with it for 2 days I gave up because there is no easy way of getting any support.

So I signed up for new hosting at hosting dot com and it has been nothing but problems trying to get it going and it turns out they are a bunch of pajeets who I can barely talk to anyway. So I just canceled with them and I am looking for a new host to go to that is based in the US with real US workers. Any suggestions welcome.

On a side note, I am putting together a Synology NAS and it does have the capability of hosting a website and email server and I might consider doing that but I have read horror stories of the email being very difficult to manage.

Anyway, any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks.

So I have not really used my domain for anything but email for the past 10 years but business has been slow so I have decided to build a website to get some more work going. The domain is currently with Plesk which is fine for my email needs but when it comes to building a website it really sucks, PHP is way out of date and wordpress won't work and after messing with it for 2 days I gave up because there is no easy way of getting any support. So I signed up for new hosting at hosting dot com and it has been nothing but problems trying to get it going and it turns out they are a bunch of pajeets who I can barely talk to anyway. So I just canceled with them and I am looking for a new host to go to that is based in the US with real US workers. Any suggestions welcome. On a side note, I am putting together a Synology NAS and it does have the capability of hosting a website and email server and I might consider doing that but I have read horror stories of the email being very difficult to manage. Anyway, any advice would be appreciated. Thanks.
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I would not recommend hosting your own email. You're better off using a service. Too easy to get yourself on block lists and you have to keep up on the security. Not to mention if your power or internet goes out, so does your email.

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Which brings up 2 of my questions: If power goes out for say a few hours and someone has emailed me will I get it later when everything is up and running again? like my voice mail on my phone? and my other question is can I host my own domain but have someone else run my email to the same dot com name?

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If your mail server isn't online the sender will get a bounce back saying as much. Usually most mail servers will try to resend the message a set number of times automatically despite a bounce back.

You could host your own website at home and have someone else run the email. Just point the MX record to whatever service you want to use. They should have instructions if they're any good.

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Okay,, I'll look into that,,,, MX record,,, thank you.