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Gary L. Wilson | Tuesday, March 8, 2011 at 9:44PM For the past couple days I've tried to setup my Google Apps account to change over my appliedi.net account. You knew that i was playing around with Squarespace and i think it's a pretty neat cms. Mainly it's a good basic overall place to do what "I" need for a site.
I knew that my hosting was coming up and i wanted to move it. So i started playing around with the Google account i set up some time ago for the email since Squarespace doesn't support email. Bummer. That Google is so fickle or I'm getting old. It reminds me of using the TAB where everything was buried in sub menus and pages that you can't find what your needing. I to the point of needing a wig as I've pulled my hair out. :-P Not really but close. I've got a couple months to figure it out so I started early. I wish it was as easy as the regular Gmail account.
Seems when i started doing websites that i understood the redirecting of things like email but dabble with this Google mess makes me feel wonky at the least.
Now Network Solutions is where i registered by domain back in 99' and i just renewed it for another 5 years. I went to redirect the MX records with Google's address and they (NS) wouldn't let you do this unless you changed your DNS routing to their hosting. That's what Leo always talks about. Once I clicked to go into the area to change the MX record it reset the DNS to their site which made my site unavailable. Gurrrr!
I changed the MX records to Google and went back out and changed the DNS address. After a couple hours my site was back up. Funny that it didn't take 2 mins. for the DNS to change the first time but hours to switch back.
At this point I went to setup my email to see if i would get email. At this point the Google Apps site is setup with my email, the MX is pointing to Google and i found out how to setup Thunderbird for Google Apps. I get email at that address but it seems to be coming in through appliedi.net. So I'm not sure how that's happening.
Thus, my frustration has got the best of me for a couple days. I'm putting this on hold because my head is missing something. It sucks to get old with this stuff.
I knew that my hosting was coming up and i wanted to move it. So i started playing around with the Google account i set up some time ago for the email since Squarespace doesn't support email. Bummer. That Google is so fickle or I'm getting old. It reminds me of using the TAB where everything was buried in sub menus and pages that you can't find what your needing. I to the point of needing a wig as I've pulled my hair out. :-P Not really but close. I've got a couple months to figure it out so I started early. I wish it was as easy as the regular Gmail account.
Seems when i started doing websites that i understood the redirecting of things like email but dabble with this Google mess makes me feel wonky at the least.
Now Network Solutions is where i registered by domain back in 99' and i just renewed it for another 5 years. I went to redirect the MX records with Google's address and they (NS) wouldn't let you do this unless you changed your DNS routing to their hosting. That's what Leo always talks about. Once I clicked to go into the area to change the MX record it reset the DNS to their site which made my site unavailable. Gurrrr!
I changed the MX records to Google and went back out and changed the DNS address. After a couple hours my site was back up. Funny that it didn't take 2 mins. for the DNS to change the first time but hours to switch back.
At this point I went to setup my email to see if i would get email. At this point the Google Apps site is setup with my email, the MX is pointing to Google and i found out how to setup Thunderbird for Google Apps. I get email at that address but it seems to be coming in through appliedi.net. So I'm not sure how that's happening.
Thus, my frustration has got the best of me for a couple days. I'm putting this on hold because my head is missing something. It sucks to get old with this stuff.
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