Webmasters or website owners who make use of the domain email ID on their domain name can host their emails on Google Application server rather than using their personal hosting server. There are several benefits of hosting on Google’s server, for instance if I have an email “info@abc.com” on my domain abc.com and I host email data using my personal server and make use of outlook or other available email clients to check my emails.

There are thousands of other making uses of this traditional way to send and receive mails. My server is very secure and reliable too but it keeps me from checking my mails in case the server fails. Also I get a lot of spam and most of the data space on my server is consumed by them. For fast, easier and secured accessibility of mails, you can make use of Google Applications email feature which is accessible for free or with pro account you can boost the storage cap.

Why Host Custom Emails on Google Apps?

1. Emails hosted on Google Applications can be used from any system.  Also emails get stored on Google Cloud and can be accessed from any place using Internet. After enrolling your domain on Google Applications, you will be given a URL to use your emails IDs. Your URL would be like, http://gmail.google.com/a/domain_name

2. In case server undergoes some outage, your emails will be still be available

3. Interface is similar as Gmail so you discover it very well-known in case you are already using Gmail.

4. You will also get to use Gchat inside your custom email ID interface. That implies that you can utilize your custom email ID for chatting as well
How to Host Custom Email IDs on Google Apps?

To use Google Applications, signup for free trial on Google Applications. Once your free trial will end, you can select to choose the premier edition or stay free to make use of Standard version. You can verify the details about Premier version and Standard version on Google Applications page.

You can host around 50 email IDs in Standard version and unlimited email IDs on Premier by paying $50 per year. Once you will complete the signup procedure by entering your domain name and other details, your Google Applications account will be formed and you will be taken to your Dashboard. After that you will have to confirm your domain ownership.

To add email IDs, you will have to make a user through Applications dashboard. Go to the “Users and groups” tab, and click on “Create a new user”. Fill in the details and custom email ID on it. Once the user will be created, you will have to modify the MX Entry to get emails on Google Applications platform.

If you are making use of dedicated server or VPS and there maintaining sites thru WHM then you can change MX Entries by navigating to DNS Functions in left panel and select “Edit MX Entry”. There you can add new values as explained above.