Google Apps reliability for receiving mail?

NachT · 4 Jul 2010 at 23:10

I'm thinking of buying a domain name and settings this up with Google Apps to receive business emails.

The emails will need to be received 100%, we can't really afford to have an email not be delivered to us. There wont be a lot of mail in total, in fact probably very little, but the ones received will be important.

Should we use Google Aps to receive our mail, is it reliable? What's the chances of someone sending an emailing and it not being delivered to the address?

Are there any other factors I should look into, like what company I buy/own the domain name through, or will this not affect receiving mail?

Cheers guys, probably a simple question

alexx · 5 Jul 2010 at 11:44

I've been doing it for years with many clients, no problems yet

[Slip] · 5 Jul 2010 at 15:22

alexx said:
I've been doing it for years with many clients, no problems yet

Ditto... fine for us

NachT · 6 Jul 2010 at 15:16

Cheers guys,

I'll actually not be using the enterprise version, just sticking with the free version as we don't require the extras you get. I'm assuming it's just as reliable as it's the same service from the same people.

Cheers guys!

bigredshark · 6 Jul 2010 at 16:33

In my experience no, the free service tends to experience outages and delivery delays which the paid for service doesn't, they do appear to prioritize...