Links and useful things

Here are a small subset of the sites I frequent and the products I find useful.

Hosting

DynDNS: Not just providers of Dynamic DNS services, but DNS hosting, domain registrations, mail relay services and much more. Worth every penny they charge.
Google Apps: Good platform for your own domain for managing email, calendars and more. With a little work you can even host web sites with Google App Engine
CheapVPS: Proof that sometimes you get more than you pay for. The service is excellent, the prices are reasonable.
OpenDNS: Provides DNS query services, but allows you to block groups of domains in a simple manner. Not without it's problems, but for free it's worth looking at.

Down for everyone or just me?: Good way of testing whether a site is down or if it's your link.
Web Hosting Talk forums: A useful source of information on hosting providers, and a source of answers to technical problems.
intoDNS: A useful site for checking that your DNS is correctly set up.
Squishywishywoo: For finding out more about your DNS than you ever thought you could.
MX Toolbox: Another useful site, this one for checking MX records and your mail server.
GMail: If you can ignore the (unintrusive) adverts, it's probably the best free webmail provider out there.

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