Hostin Email on Azure

Question

I'm considering to move my website to a Azure free Website. The problem is that I want my site to be hosted at "mydomain.com", and also, to use emails like "[email protected]".

Since I'll have to target my DNS to the Azure server, how can I receive my emails? Is it possible on Azure?

Answer 1

First of all, as viperguynaz said, you cannot combine custom-domains and free Azure websites. You'll want to upgrade your free-tier Azure website to Shared Website Mode

Second of all, just because you're moving your website and it's domain to Azure, it doesn't mean that you should be moving your email to Azure. Remember, that with domains, you do not need to move all the subdomains underneath mydomain.com together. You can continue hosting mail.mydomain.com wherever you currently do, right now. If you need a free/cheap email provider - feel free to use Gmail for business, Office365, or contact any ISP for a custom-domain mailbox. Those are cheap and plenty.