First of all let’s recall our aims: If you want to begin your own startup, or just bring online your already existing offline business, in any case, you have to
create your own online infrastructure, and we will do it by using set of Google tools.
So, if you want to create your own
site on your own domain, or want to create your own
blog on your own domain, or even want to create your own
web application (such as Twitter, or Pinterest, or any other less known), or just want to have your own
email address with your own domain name (for example:
some_name@some-company-name.com, or anything like this), you can have any combination of these four elements or all of them. But to implement this, first you have to create
Google Apps account and then
map it to your own domain name. Of course if you already have registered domain name you can map Google Apps to it, otherwise you also have to register it.
Domain name registration is the only step which might require some money spent from you – something around $10.
Although, starting on December 6, 2012, Google will no longer offer new accounts for the free edition of Google Apps. But if you
follow my instructions from previous article you still can get account for such free Google Apps edition. This free Google Apps account is limited by just one user – not much, but it is quite enough for our purpose.
Of course, you can as well use a paid version of Google Apps for several users, so called Google Apps for Business. It is a very good solution in case your company already has several employees, and you want to get a convenient and reliable IT solution for your company. The process described below will be applicable in any case.
So, returning to our aims, we need to have Google Apps account at list to achieve next porpoise:
– By using Google Apps you will map your domain and its subdomains to different parts of your online infrastructure. For example you can implement next schema:
– Also you will use the Google Apps Sites (one of the service included in Google Apps suite) in order to create and develop your public site.
– After mapping you Google Apps to your domain you will get branded email addresses in your domain, similar to this:
some_name@ some-company-name.com.
Please follow next instructions in order achieve these goals.
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