Just last week, I finally decided to make use of Google Apps for one of my personal domains. I’ve been hosting the said domain in my own VPS, which includes the email services and web services. It has been working pretty well, and I have no problems of some sort. It’s just that since I’m planning to use my VPS for lots of development stuffs some time next month, I’m afraid that the services on the said domain might be affected just in case I would need to re-configure my server or decide to re-install everything. This is not really acceptable for now since most of my personal stuffs, especially important emails goes into this domain, and this goes the same with other people making use of my personal domain.
So there it is, my personal domain is now configured for Google Apps. It’s pretty cool actually, since a lot of services are packaged in the standard edition, namely:
I have no plans of subscribing to the premium edition since I don’t really think it’s worth it if I’m just going to use Google Apps for my personal interests. I’m very much contented with the standard edition offerings.
Of all the applications, I really find the Calendar functionalities cool. Aside from the cool interface and being able to share my schedules with other members of my personal domain, I get to be notified with important events through SMS for FREE. This is really very useful especially if I want to be reminded of birthdays, meetings, TV schedules, etc. The GMail app is also useful, since I won’t need to worry about maintaing my own email server and setting up all those anti-spam and anti-virus software on it, and as I’ve said earlier even if I mess up my VPS, my personal emails won’t be affected.
Aphilo, really likes being able to import her contacts from her Yahoo Mail into her Google Apps GMail account. Moreover, the Docs and Spreadsheets and Calendar applications would be very useful for her since she oftentimes needs her office work and schedules even while on the go. At least this time she’ll have an online storage of her documents and also a way to share the documents or schedules online with her colleagues or even allow them to collaborate with them.
Well, I think Google really made a good online offering here, and I’m really looking forward for more useful applications that would be bundled with Google Apps. 
[tags]Google Apps, Online Calendar, GMail, Domain, SMS notifications, Yahoo Mail, Import Online Contacts, Email Services, Web Services, Google[/tags]
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