Time Is Money!So for every minute delayed to receive important email cost you money! I've been using GoDaddy VPS to host my website and my clients' website for sometime. I use email forwarder with WHM/Cpanel to forward all incoming emails to my GMail account.
I've told that I wasn't responding to my client's request faster enough. So the client was mad at me. It turns out that I got their email delayed between 4-15 minutes. It doesn't seem to be a long time, but sometimes, I have to talk to the client over the phone or over a video conference. We were there waiting for email to come to discuss further more.
Finally, I found out that the problem is at GoDaddy. When I receive email from someone, the email go through the following places before coming to my gmail inbox.
Client's SMTP server -> GoDaddy VPS -> GoDaddy MX Forwarding -> Gmail.
The problem is that the GoDaddy MX server took 4-15 minutes to forward my email. Not sure if it's WHM/CPanel's problem or not. It is even worse, if my client is sending email through GoDaddy SMTP Server. I may received my email 20 or longer later.
So I switch my domain name to use Google Domains and setup my email forwarder with Google Domains.
Guess what?
I got my email from anywhere under 2 minutes. In most case, I got my email in less than 30 seconds.
I've been with GoDaddy for many years. I guess I should also move away from GoDaddy VPS, which has been an OK ride. It's cheaper than other VPS providers, but at the cost of my time and money.
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