I started to use GoogleApps in the last work project, where everybody is using gmail for corporate mailing as well as google apps, etc… So I dig deeper into google apps to host by domain there and dump the Exchange mail hosting solution I have now. It ended up that instead of paying 10€ a month for exchange+blakberry bed would pay like 4€ a month with GoogleApps. But since this crisis made me very cautious about spending money, I said to myself to search deeper in the net.

Zoho Mail

I reached Zoho, where I could host my own domain mailing at 0€, having IMAP and POP, therefore being able to sync with my iPod, Blackberry, from any browser, etc… Sounded like a great deal. I have 1GB for first 3 users, which is a great proposition for start-ups. Their spam filter is way cool. Believe me I have tons of spam every hour, the zoho spam folder as I am writing has 8,000 messages and that in a few days only. It catches spam pretty well, at least the kind of spam I get. And finally I can send my personal email from Yahoo to the same account with label personal so have all email organized in same place. I get 25GB paying small fee like 3€ when my mail grows which will not happend soon, so I am OK.

Zoho Apps

Now this is the one that rocks. I get Calendar, Tasks, Notes, Forums, Link Management, Contacts, Notebook (MS OnNote style), Wiki, Project Management, Meeting Software, CRM (Like SalesForce), Share App, Invoice App, SpreadSheet (GoogleApps compatible), Planner, Writer, Chat, Marketplace, People (Human Resource Soft), Recruiting Software, Slide Soft, Reporting Software, Remote Desktop, Document Online Disk (1GB) and Creator (Web site creator) totally free. This is really awesome.

Their application are not crappy apps, they are nice applications, usefull for everyday use. And the number increases like monitoring soft, polls, etc… So I say: “This company delivers”. This is the reason why I moved to Zoho and plan to be there. When need more proyect management will pay very low on-demand fees, the same for the other services. So seems to be much better for me that GoogleApps. And as I said, they have compatibility with GoogleApps and their calendar application so no problem with that.

I set up a public calendar that will publish into this blog with the online events I go and public stuff I go, etc…

Also, besides all this I can choose mail account name and not be jalegre8726@gmail.com, which is not very compeling to me.

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