Submitted by Matthew on September 11, 2011 - 12:39pm.
Dreamhost still offers free hosting for 501(c)3 non-profits. While they're certainly no Gmail, at least you'll have free email (and web hosting). I've been a very happy customer for four years and for part of those four years I managed free accounts for a church and a Christian school in addition to my personal account.
They also offer 50GB of storage for backups, which could serve as an alternative to paying for a service like Carbonite, albeit a bring-your-own-software alternative. How automatic your backups are would depend on what software you're using to perform the backups, but it's one possible place to keep them.
This is how I do it: My Vision by Paul Clifford
I found this video by Paul Clifford (@PodcastinChurch) via Twitter and thought it fits well with our discussion.
http://vimeo.com/28729826
Micah
Free email hosting for churches
Dreamhost still offers free hosting for 501(c)3 non-profits. While they're certainly no Gmail, at least you'll have free email (and web hosting). I've been a very happy customer for four years and for part of those four years I managed free accounts for a church and a Christian school in addition to my personal account.
They also offer 50GB of storage for backups, which could serve as an alternative to paying for a service like Carbonite, albeit a bring-your-own-software alternative. How automatic your backups are would depend on what software you're using to perform the backups, but it's one possible place to keep them.
http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Non-profit