Business domain email migration - migration from shared hosting to real email hosting
Learn the best practices for migrating WordPress send/receive email at your custom domain. Watch how I migrate emails like [email protected] from shared WordPress hosting to a dedicated email host at Rackspace.
In this video, I demonstrate migrating an existing custom email address, and all the hosted and saved emails at the server, from SiteGround website hosting to Rackspace Cloud Office email hosting.
Best practices in 2021 into 2022 indicate that hosting email at the website server shouldn't be done, and hosting email at a dedicated email host is much better. Rackspace is an inexpensive option, Google Workspace (formerly Google for Business and GSuite) is a good option too.
Free custom domain email hosting can also be set up at Zoho.com.
Resources discussed in the video :
SiteGround hosting - https://leveragewp.co/get/siteground/
GridPane self-managed VPS hosting - https://leveragewp.co/get/gridpane/
Rackspace Email - https://www.rackspace.com/application...
Cloudflare.com - https://www.cloudflare.com
I was not paid to make this video, and I only recommend products I've used myself and love. Any link posted here are likely referral links, whereby you don't pay extra, but I may get a small commission. (You might even get a discount.) Thanks! --Gregg
Transcription:
Hey, and welcome, I am going to migrate hosted email from a web hosting client that I have at SiteGround flow coaching.com. And to migrate that email to a hosted email system at Rackspace that I'm setting up for that domain name. And so as you might remember, we're migrating flow coaching, comm over to grid pain hosting from SiteGround. Well, we don't want to mess up the email system. And so I've taken control of the DNS. And by doing that, I'm able to move the website separately from the email and then move the email at my leisure and make sure that it's all working in the background.
I'm Gregg Davis, and this is leverage WordPress. And welcome to this tutorial on email migration. To get started, take a look at the screen here. As you might have remembered, this is the new flow coaching website. And this is hosted at good pain at a staging subdomain. If you look up here at staging dot flow coaching.com, I have all the original pages up here and I'm in the process of changing over to the Divi theme and redesigning all these pages here in the drop down for Chris's website. Now, while this is hosted at grid pain here, the original site is still hosted at SiteGround. This is what the homepage looks like. And the way that I've been able to do that is to take control of the DNS settings by using my free version of CloudFlare, where I point the name servers from the domain host, which is GoDaddy, Chris has an account at GoDaddy pointed over to Cloudflare and manage the DNS settings in Cloudflare.
What that means is that I can take these, leave these MX records over to these records, which points to the SiteGround email system that's in place right now. And I can also leave the a record for flow coaching comm at this 35.208 IP address. That's the original SiteGround website. However, I made this staging subdomain a record which points to a different IP you can see here 209 dot 50. That one's over at grid print. So if we look at SiteGround under this account, flow coaching.com under email, I don't have any email forwarding going on. But I have two email accounts to move. One is his main email Chris at flow coaching comm has 433 megabytes and unlimited quota. And this info at that he uses a little bit as a reply address for email communications has zero megabytes in it, but we're going to migrate this one as well. And with this email system I've just looked into where I'm going to move the emails now I host email for clients sites at Rackspace email, or Rackspace office, which means that I set up domain names to host business email. And then for 299 a month per email address for 25 gigs.
You can set up mailboxes as well as alias addresses that don't count towards your quota at all in Rackspace. But this is similar to something like Google workspace, which is $5 a month per email address for 30 gigs. And there's other services out there that do this, I do prefer Rackspace. And just hosting email at a separate place from your website is a best practice because they maintain these IP addresses for outgoing email and make sure that they are have a good reputation for email sending. So deliverability is on point. And so I logged into my Rackspace account here and I know that I have to add Chris's domain name and create an empty email address for those two email addresses first...
Continued at https://leveragewp.co/email-migration...