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Not sure if this is the best thread for this question but it seems to fit so I'm going to ask. I get a wordfence report once a week, and for the past couple of weeks I've had several attempts from people trying to login to my wordpress website with my admin user account login name (it is not admin). Not sure how they figured it out, but its a little disconcerting. It isn't a ton of login attempts, like maybe 10 a week, but still, I don't like to see it. Is this something I should actually be worried about? I do have 2 factor turned on to login, so if they somehow get the password they still shouldn't be able to get in. I don't think I can change the user name, though if I had to I suppose I could create a different user account and just make that one the admin. Thoughts?
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nesbit37 posted:Not sure if this is the best thread for this question but it seems to fit so I'm going to ask. Wordpress is one of those apps that you have to be on top of, you have to keep up with updates and you need to make sure the updates does not cause things to break. just make sure your password is unique compared to other sites, everyone knows our password these days.
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Rawrbomb posted:Yeah, those entries should be em6847.domain.org without the secondary hostname. The sender auth process should go into a "validated" state, once you get it setup. Yeah, I had not realized the DNS appended the domain on them. Long story short, got them updated and it's all good! Thanks everyone!
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PleasantDilemma posted:I've heard fastmail is good for hosting email and they aren't one of the big clouds. Today I was actually trying to sign up for icloud email but the app kept giving me an error. They support custom domain and the price looks really good. I'm looking to switch off runbox.com since I've had some delivery issues. I am looking to move my custom domain email from google (had it since 2009 in the free plan but for more than a year now google just got greedy and they're asking tons of money. I'm just about to finish my grace period this month with them.) I saw in the other replies information about setting up cloudflare with email forwarding. How do you send email from that email address then? Second question, which is why I quoted above post: I researched fastmail a bit and people are saying good things about them. Their custom domain plan is significantly cheaper than google and microsoft. Are there any problems that people have experienced with them? Other than fastmail or that cloudflare solution is there nothing out there but to go give money to google or microsoft? I just need 3 users.
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The free gapps accounts got to stay free after too many people complained. Check to see if you really need to do this first. You might need to contact support to get it to stick around as I recall I had to opt into keeping free gapps but that is probably a lot less effort and cheaper than migrating.
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Inceltown posted:The free gapps accounts got to stay free after too many people complained. Check to see if you really need to do this first. You might need to contact support to get it to stick around as I recall I had to opt into keeping free gapps but that is probably a lot less effort and cheaper than migrating. omg, really? holy poo poo, never heard about that. ok, I suppose I can contact the google support AI, and see where I can go from there ... It's been a year or two since they switched on to full greed mode, hopefully there wasn't a period when one could keep their free account.
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Volguus posted:I am looking to move my custom domain email from google (had it since 2009 in the free plan but for more than a year now google just got greedy and they're asking tons of money. I'm just about to finish my grace period this month with them.) I saw in the other replies information about setting up cloudflare with email forwarding. How do you send email from that email address then? 1 - I use CF to forward to Gmail currently and you just setup your forwarded email addresses in Gmail as 'send as' accounts so you can choose whether you're sending from a custom email or your Gmail or whatever. Seems to work fine for me. It validates each email you add this way with an auth email sent to that address to make sure you control it. It's all free and works fine for my needs.
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Aware posted:1 - I use CF to forward to Gmail currently and you just setup your forwarded email addresses in Gmail as 'send as' accounts so you can choose whether you're sending from a custom email or your Gmail or whatever. Seems to work fine for me. It validates each email you add this way with an auth email sent to that address to make sure you control it. It's all free and works fine for my needs. butting into this convo to say did not know gmail had this feature. What do I set as the username and password here to go through my cloudflare alias? I already have my gmail account receiving from my cloudflare alias, but not sure how to configure outgoing email 
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Volguus posted:Second question, which is why I quoted above post: I researched fastmail a bit and people are saying good things about them. Their custom domain plan is significantly cheaper than google and microsoft. Are there any problems that people have experienced with them? Other than fastmail or that cloudflare solution is there nothing out there but to go give money to google or microsoft? I've been using Fastmail for over 10 years for about 20/30 users and they've always been absolutely fine. Maybe a couple of brief outages in all that time. No deliverability issues. You don't pay anything for custom domains - just add them to your account and then point the domain at the fastmail nameservers. They make you create a separate password to use for IMAP compared to webmail which is slightly annoying, but no big deal. The price is reasonable but if you exceed the 30gb tier there's a big jump to the much more expensive 200gb tier, so keep that in mind if your mailboxes are large. I actually just started slowly moving to https://www.infomaniak.com/en/hosting/service-mail They're well established, have a really good admin interface, and it's incredibly cheap if you just want the email service.
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Thank you very much everyone, that is quite helpful information.
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Another question about switching email providers. Is there a tool to copy my existing emails to a new host? IMAP to IMAP? Google brings up guides that say my mail will stay in my client which is true, but is like to consolidate on one server.
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PleasantDilemma posted:Another question about switching email providers. Is there a tool to copy my existing emails to a new host? IMAP to IMAP? Google brings up guides that say my mail will stay in my client which is true, but is like to consolidate on one server. https://github.com/imapsync/imapsync It’s a very simple tool that you can run
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PleasantDilemma posted:Another question about switching email providers. Is there a tool to copy my existing emails to a new host? IMAP to IMAP? Google brings up guides that say my mail will stay in my client which is true, but is like to consolidate on one server. If you have both accounts in a single mail client you can copy and paste.
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Inceltown posted:The free gapps accounts got to stay free after too many people complained. Check to see if you really need to do this first. You might need to contact support to get it to stick around as I recall I had to opt into keeping free gapps but that is probably a lot less effort and cheaper than migrating. I am goddamn livid at only finding this out now, because they've discontinued the back-to-free option as of last August and have now raised prices again. It's simply not worth the base minimum of $33ish a month.
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PleasantDilemma posted:Another question about switching email providers. Is there a tool to copy my existing emails to a new host? IMAP to IMAP? Google brings up guides that say my mail will stay in my client which is true, but is like to consolidate on one server. Like RoboBoogie said, Imapsync is probably what you want. The dev has an online version here: https://imapsync.lamiral.info/X/ When you switch DNS MX records to a new email provider there's a brief window (although it can last up to 24 hours) where emails can either end up in the new or old mailbox. If you run Imapsync periodically throughout this window then you can make sure any stray emails end up in the new location.
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RoboBoogie posted:https://github.com/imapsync/imapsync Trip report: of my 19k mails it copied 15k and had an "append error" on the rest. Will dig into getting the last over but this is exactly the kind of tool that I was looking for, thanks.
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Mar 14, 2024 17:24
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PleasantDilemma posted:Trip report: of my 19k mails it copied 15k and had an "append error" on the rest. Will dig into getting the last over but this is exactly the kind of tool that I was looking for, thanks. run it again, it will skip the 15K and continues chugging along
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teen phone cutie posted:butting into this convo to say did not know gmail had this feature. What do I set as the username and password here to go through my cloudflare alias? Sorry for the late reply but I don't think you need to send via another SMTP service for these send as email, I don't have any of that configured.
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teen phone cutie posted:butting into this convo to say did not know gmail had this feature. What do I set as the username and password here to go through my cloudflare alias? gmail settings -> accounts -> send mail as -> add another email address
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Apologies for digging this back up but is there a newer version of the OP webhosts or ones that are recommended available? A quick glance at the first post has a few broken links and closed down sites (though I will apologize if this is incorrect, been having some connection issues due to the weather). I’m not personally needing a huge amount of space or anything, mainly just the ability to possibly work with stuff like Node/etc. Other than that, would bring my own domain as well so hosting is the only real concern. Don’t mind being on shared hosting either as I’m basically just planning on having a portfolio or small amount of subdomains, nothing big. If this isn’t the place to go, again, apologies, but if not, any advice is appreciated, thank you!
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Seiyal posted:Apologies for digging this back up but is there a newer version of the OP webhosts or ones that are recommended available? A quick glance at the first post has a few broken links and closed down sites (though I will apologize if this is incorrect, been having some connection issues due to the weather). VPS hosts took over much of the cheap hosting market, Digitalocean or OVH would be my top picks. Probably OVH because I'm a tightwad. Linode is still OK but was bought by Akamai and they will run it into the ground and hike prices. If you're looking to build skills for more job options in the future, any of the big cloud vendors could do this too, but they're overkill for simple hosting. There are some limited cheap products like AWS Lightsail that offer essentially simply VPS hosting from a cloud vendor. If you really want a shared host, I'd assume it's because you are after extreme value and not having to janitor a VM yourself, I'd look at Spaceship: https://www.spaceship.com/hosting/shared/ They are Namecheap doing a fresh start to stay competitive, currently dirt cheap.
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The cheapest vps host is the free tier of oracle cloud. Oracle sucks and they can disable your account on a whim but it’s hard to argue with a free 4 core arm with 24GB ram, 50GB disk and 10TB of bandwidth.
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Appreciate all of the advice all! Yeah, I’m working on learning web design but the last host I had was ages ago and it ended up just disappearing one day (never figured out what happened). And the host before that was probably something like Dreamhost etc. Also, I don’t mind different kinds of hosting but I mentioned shared hosting as cloud and VPS weren’t even options the last time I was host hunting, so this is all a bit new for sure. Again, thank you again for these suggestions, it’s really appreciated!
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Perplx posted:The cheapest vps host is the free tier of oracle cloud. Oracle sucks and they can disable your account on a whim but it’s hard to argue with a free 4 core arm with 24GB ram, 50GB disk and 10TB of bandwidth. If you give them your credit card number you get some kind of preferential treatment where they don't shut your VM down every quarter and you can actually make instances of the arm servers
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Yeah suddenly they had arm availability when I added billing info, lol
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Similarly what if any is the replacement for Google email linked to your own domain. Is self hosting still a landmine of incompatibility? Asked this same question 1 year ago because I don’t want to pay google another year if something better has come along.
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Back when Google was some what more in the news for blanket banning your whole account for Youtube infractions and similar menial poo poo, I switched to Office 365. For a custom domain however, if you want a Personal/Family subscription, you have to transfer it to GoDaddy, or cough up a bit more and go for a single user Business subscription to run it on your own registrar (which is what I did). You get the Office suite with it. Excel was in the package, but I don't need it anymore. Currently evaluating whether I should go with ProtonMail. Moving all the emails around is a pain in the rear end.
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M_Gargantua posted:Similarly what if any is the replacement for Google email linked to your own domain. Is self hosting still a landmine of incompatibility? I was using mxroute. Then I thought I hate myself, why don’t I host my own email. It works but even if you have all the dkim and other jazz your poo poo still ends up in your buddy’s spam mailbox. I may end up switching back to mxroute
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Combat Pretzel posted:Back when Google was some what more in the news for blanket banning your whole account for Youtube infractions and similar menial poo poo, I switched to Office 365. For a custom domain however, if you want a Personal/Family subscription, you have to transfer it to GoDaddy, or cough up a bit more and go for a single user Business subscription to run it on your own registrar (which is what I did). You get the Office suite with it. Excel was in the package, but I don't need it anymore. Imapsync is a great tool but I think proton doesn’t do imap so you’re poo poo out of luck there
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They seem to have their own tool to import stuff from Outlook 365. I'm currently cleaning up the billions of unread newsletters before giving it a try, tho.
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Combat Pretzel posted:transfer it to GoDaddy
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M_Gargantua posted:Similarly what if any is the replacement for Google email linked to your own domain. Is self hosting still a landmine of incompatibility? Normal Gmail + cloudflare email forwarding + configure custom sending address in Gmail
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Rufus Ping posted:Normal Gmail + cloudflare email forwarding + configure custom sending address in Gmail yeah this. i do this for my site and it's all 100% free to set up. The only downside is that people will still see the regular email address ontop of the alias/cloudflare one
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Have a client with 3 domains on a really barebones host, Brinkster. They also have been utilizing POP3 for yeaaaaaars, and it's become an issue. So I'd like to possibly move them to a more modern host and possibly O365 mail for the option of Exchange and synchronization. I figure I can have 2 of the 3 domains just redirect to the main one. But where do I start? What do I need to know about the Brinkster configuration? And who should I look at for hosting? I don't know how much cost is going to be a factor as the client will just be happy to be past Brinkster. I've run through the OP but figured it couldn't hurt to ask.
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Boywhiz88 posted:Have a client with 3 domains on a really barebones host, Brinkster. It’s prob easier than redirecting even. Can’t look it up atm but to get o365 to host my email for multiple domains on one o365 think I just followed the steps it said and changed the dns entry to whatever it told me to. It was v easy. Don’t forget spf/dkim/dmarc
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CarForumPoster posted:It’s prob easier than redirecting even. Can’t look it up atm but to get o365 to host my email for multiple domains on one o365 think I just followed the steps it said and changed the dns entry to whatever it told me to. It was v easy. The client likes to keep the separate e-mails for separate purposes. When I do move hosting, DKIM/SPF/DMARC are front of mind. I've helped a couple groups with that now, just cause it's a major annoyance to me seeing things I like/need going to junk. But yeah, it sounds like I should get the client off of Brinkster and into a more modern host. I know GoDaddy is the big name but I saw the last few pages where folks were saying to avoid them. Anything in particular, and if so, then who else should I look for? This is a very barebone low-bandwidth website. Low traffic all around for website and e-mail. Part of why I want to look at O365 e-mail is just the relative ease-of-use for the client. They're gonna go from POP3 and I figure why do the half-measure of IMAP, plus I've had success uploading massive mailboxes to Exchange so getting that setup should be straightforward.
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Can anyone recommend a managed web host? My wife is looking to move her small site, and wants it just taken care of and to work. Maybe a few small updates throughout a year, but nothing much.
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OK so I'm dumb as hell about all this. I've got a very simple site for my business. My friend had hosting and handled all the back-end stuff for me. I just log in with cpanel to change the site and handle the email accounts (which are pulled to a Gmail account with POP3). He doesn't want to run the hosting anymore and I have no idea how to move the domain to a new host, or do things like get an SSL cert. And it looks like the host options in the OP are outdated. WTF do I do?
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vortmax posted:OK so I'm dumb as hell about all this. I've got a very simple site for my business. My friend had hosting and handled all the back-end stuff for me. I just log in with cpanel to change the site and handle the email accounts (which are pulled to a Gmail account with POP3). Get a simple wix site, theyll have instructions to migrate the domain and prob have SSL on by default. You can look up how to migrate from whatever email thing youre using to something like MS or google workspaces. EDIT: This assumes its a relatively simple site without a ton of content and years of SEO work. If thats not the case, then more details are needed. CarForumPoster fucked around with this message at 23:14 on Aug 11, 2024 |
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CarForumPoster posted:EDIT: This assumes its a relatively simple site without a ton of content and years of SEO work. If thats not the case, then more details are needed. It's literally a single HTML page with a few images and 4 or 5 email addresses using the domain. vortmax fucked around with this message at 16:11 on Aug 12, 2024 |
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