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In an earlier thread, I asked about email providers to use with my own domain name. I finally took the plunge and signed up for G Suite a couple of weeks ago. It went fairly smoothly overall. A few thing confused me at first. I'm still ironing out some kinks related to other Google services that I use.
I'll post my experiences in this thread. Feel free to join in, if you also use G Suite or are interested in it.
Google assumes you're setting up G Suite as the administrator for a business with several users/employees, whereas I'm doing this just for me. At first I wondered whether I would have to create two accounts: one for me as administrator and one for me as ordinary user. It turns out I need only one account, username and password. I use different URLs for access as administrator and as user. During initial setup I simply told it that my "business" has one employee. The number of user accounts is important, because it affects how much you pay: $5 per user per month.
During initial setup, it asks you for the email address that "you currently use at work." Don't use an address in the domain that you're going to associate with your G Suite account, even if you're already using that address with your current email provider (as I was). After you're set up, this address becomes your "recovery email address" in case you somehow get locked out of your G Suite account. So it should be an address that is not in your domain. I used my Yahoo address, that I previously had forwarded my domain email to.
More later...
I'll post my experiences in this thread. Feel free to join in, if you also use G Suite or are interested in it.
Google assumes you're setting up G Suite as the administrator for a business with several users/employees, whereas I'm doing this just for me. At first I wondered whether I would have to create two accounts: one for me as administrator and one for me as ordinary user. It turns out I need only one account, username and password. I use different URLs for access as administrator and as user. During initial setup I simply told it that my "business" has one employee. The number of user accounts is important, because it affects how much you pay: $5 per user per month.
During initial setup, it asks you for the email address that "you currently use at work." Don't use an address in the domain that you're going to associate with your G Suite account, even if you're already using that address with your current email provider (as I was). After you're set up, this address becomes your "recovery email address" in case you somehow get locked out of your G Suite account. So it should be an address that is not in your domain. I used my Yahoo address, that I previously had forwarded my domain email to.
More later...