I figured it was far past time to switch over to Google for my web-hosting needs. The advantages are that it's free, you automatically get new features and, best of all, you don't need to maintain anything.
Plus, it's a massive injection of newness, which cannot be understimated. I had been using a web-blogging platform called serendipity (AKA s9y) for many years. This is a PHP-based software package which in many respects is similar to (and somewhat compatible with) WordPress. It is not for any faults in s9y that I switched; my blog ran flawlessly on it for many years: it's stable, secure (never needed to do a security upgrade, somethat that definitely cannot be said for WP) and smartly written (also cannot say that about WP). I just needed something new and to get off of paid hosting.
So I switched over to Google Apps for domain services (I use domainmanager.com for DNS), the personal addition. One of the limitations here is that you can only manage a single primary domain, though a domain can have multiple aliases, and up to 50 users (these restrictions are removed in the non-profit/education edition and in the business edition of course). But you can setup multiple accounts in Google Apps. So the trick is, how do you manage logging in and logging out of multiple Google accounts? Simple, just install Mozilla's Prism, and create a new instance for each project that you want to manage through Google Apps. Works great!
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