Online presence with Google Apps, 110mb Hosting and GoDaddy

No matter what your organization deals with, an online presence or website for the organization has become a fundamental requirement for every business. It not only helps augment the organization's image but also helps business marketing and sales, thus resulting in increased profitability.

For the startups and the businesses who want to have their online presence/website in a cost-effective and professional way can consider using the services of:

1. Google Apps Standard Edition - for efficient email system with your domain name, Google Calendar, online office tools, etc.
   
2. GoDaddy Domain Registrar - for registering a domain with full DNS control
   
3. 110mb.com Hosting - for free web hosting space for hosting website
   

Let us see, how these 3 services can be used efficiently.

1. Sign up a Standard Edition account with Google Apps: During the signup process, you will be asked to enter your organization domain name. If you already don't have a domain name registered then it will provide you an option to register a domain for your organization with GoDaddy for just $10. After registering a domain name and completing the Google Apps signup process, you can:

• Create up to 200 user accounts for this domain
• Provide email addresses with your domain name to every user
  
• Make use of online office tools such as word processor, spreadsheet, presentation
• And much more
  

2. Create a web-hosting account with 110mb.com: For large amount of hosting space and bandwidth with no ads, you can create an account with 110mb.com web-hosting.

3. Find the IP address of your 110mb.com server: To configure your domain to use 110mb hosting server for web hosting, you need to know the IP address of your 110mb.com hosting server. You can find this IP address from:
http://www.110mb.com/check_your_site

4. Login to your GoDaddy account: If you have registered your domain with GoDaddy via Google Apps, then the login credentials for your GoDaddy account will be available within your Google Apps account at Domain Settings -> Domain Names -> Advanced DNS Settings.

5. Setup DNS to use 110mb.com Hosting service: Within your GoDaddy account, click on your domain name and take total DNS control and MX Records to do the following changes:

• Delete all the records except one under the 'A (Host)'
• Edit the record that is left undeleted under the 'A (Host)'. This record should have Host Name= @, Points To Ip Address= IP address of of your 110mb.com hosting server and TTL= 1 Hour.
• Edit the CNAMES (Aliases) record with the Host Name 'www'. This record should have Host Name= www, Points To Ip Address= @ and TTL= 1 Hour.

6. Add your domain in 110mb.com: Login to your 110mb.com hosting account and add your domain in your 100mb.com Account Profile.

Once the above specified settings are done, you can create/upload the web pages of your website from the File Manager of 110mb.com.

Hope this post helps.