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| Large Web Host Urges Customers to Use Gmail                        |
|   from the conceding-loss dept.                                    |
|   posted by timothy on Tuesday May 27, @09:28 (Communications)     |
|   http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/27/137229 |
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[0]1sockchuck writes “LA hosting company DreamHost, which hosts more than
700,000 web sites, is encouraging its customers to use Google’s Gmail for
their e-mail, rather than the DreamHost mail servers. DreamHost is
continuing to support all its existing e-mail offerings, but said in a
blog post that email is “just [1]not something people are looking for
from us, and it’s something the big free email providers like Yahoo,
Microsoft, and Google can do better.” DreamHost addresses a [2]question
about Google that has vexed many web hosting companies: is Google a
useful partner, or a competitor that intends to make “traditional” web
hosting companies obsolete? In this case, partnering with Google offers
DreamHost a way to offload many of its trouble tickets, reducing the
support overhead. Is Google starting to make web hosts less necessary?”

Discuss this story at:
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Links:
0. http://www.gamehostingguide.com/
1. http://blog.dreamhost.com/2008/05/23/what-web-hosting-is-for/
2. http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/May/27/big_web_host_please_use_gmail_for_email.html