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What is IMAP, POP, and SMTP?

This post provides a very basic understanding of IMAP, POP and SMTP as they relate to email.

Choosing a Business Email Service

Choose the best email service for you small business. Google's G Suite is my recommendation, but there are other choices.

Point Your Domain Name to Amazon S3

Learn how to Use Amazon Route 53 to connect you domain name to a S3 Bucket for static website hosting

Upload Website to Amazon S3

Learn how to upload to Amazon Web Services S3 using Cyberduck

Edit a HTML Website Template

Learn the basics to editing a website template

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Email Resources

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Description
Cost
Gmail
Google's Workspace includes Gmail and other Google services to help teams communicate. Simple to set up and manage.
$$
Rack Space
Rackspace has a wide choice of industry-leading email and productivity solutions including Exchange and Office 365.
$$
Zoho Mail
Host your business email on a secure, encrypted, privacy-guaranteed, and ad-free email service.
$
Thunderbird
Thunderbird is a free email client that’s easy to download, set up and customize. This is not an email services, just the software to send and receive email from your computer.
Free
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SEO Resources

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Description
Cost
SEORCH
Great SEO tool that scans and checks your page for onpage factors. Provides hints on how to increase your page rank.
Free Plan
GTmetrix
GTmetrix gives you insight on how well your site loads and provides actionable recommendations on how to optimize it.
Free Plan
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Design Resources

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Description
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PXHere
Free of copyrights under CCO. Do whatever you want.
Free
Pixabay
Over 830,000 high quality photos, illustrations, and vector graphics. Free for commercial use. No attribution required.
Free
Pexels
Free stock photos you can use everywhere. Free for commercial use. No attribution required
Free
Optimizilla
This online image optimizer uses a smart combination of the best optimization and lossy compression algorithms to shrink JPEG and PNG images to the minimum possible size while keeping the required level of quality.
Free
ThemeForest
Professional Website Templates for any project. Discover thousands of easy to customize templates made by world-class developers.
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Tools Resources

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Description
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S3 Routing Rules Builder
Build S3 conditional routing rules using a simple syntax.
Free
DNS Leak test
Test routing to find DNS leaks while using VPN. Also provides your IP and DNS when not using VPN.
Free
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Apps Resources

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Visual Studio
A standalone source code editor that runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux.
Free
Sublime Text
One of the best text editors out there. Easy to use, full featured. For Windows, Mac and Linux.
$$
Cyberduck
Cyberduck is a libre server and cloud storage browser for Mac and Windows with support for FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, Amazon S3, OpenStack Swift, Backblaze B2, Microsoft Azure & OneDrive, Google Drive and Dropbox.
Free
Gimp
GIMP is a image editor available for Linux, OS X, and Windows. It is very similair to Photoshop. You can scale, crop, and edit images very easily wiht Gimp.
Free
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Hosting Resources

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Simply Explained - Savjee (YouTube)
Simply Explained by Savjee provides an excellent tutorial on static websites hosted at AWS S3
Free
Severless
All-in-one development solution for auto-scaling apps on AWS Lambda
Free
Simply Explained - Savjee (YouTube)
Simply Explained by Savjee provides an excellent tutorial on the Serverless framework
Free
Free Code Camp
Article describing setup of the Serverless on Linux
Free
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Domain Name Resources

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Google Domain
Simple pricing. Extras included. Email forwarding, privacy protection, one-click DNSSEC, Google 2-Step Verification, and more included.
$$
MX Tool Box
This test will list MX records for a domain in priority order. The MX lookup is done directly against the domain's authoritative name server, so changes to MX Records should show up instantly.
Free
DNS Propagation Checker
This allows you to check the current state of DNS propagation after having made changes to your domains records.
Free
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