Are there any real differences between a .com and .biz site?

Google Apps for small biz

• I'm helping someone setup google apps for a small biz. Already signed up for google apps and bought the domain name through google (enom.com). Need help building a document repo out of GDocs and redirecting the main domain (example.com and www.example.com) to a website hosted on an outside hosting server. 1. How to use docs(drive) as a shared document repository. Right now http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=60781 are set as visible to anyone in the organization. But unless they get the link (or shared explicitly with them) they won't see the docs in their account. What I would want to any document from anyone to show up in everyone elses account. 2. I would like to host the main web site for the biz with another outside hosting company. This is a http://i.imgur.com/2nBWO.png of the enom dashboard. How do I point example.com (and www.example.com) to a outside hosting server and still not mess up rest of the google apps, like mail.example.com, docs.example.com, calendar.example.com and all the email accounts (@example.com)? Thanks.

• Answer:

  Can't help you with point 1, as I have no experience with google docs. Point 2 is all about DNS. The succinct version is that you need to point the DNS records for example.com and www.example.com to your hosting provider, and point everything else to google. Create the following DNS records, replacing example.com with your domain name, and the ip address with the correct data for the external web host: example.com IN A 10.0.0.1 www IN CNAME example.com. Now, for all the google hosted content, a quick google search seems to indicate you need CNAME records for ghs.google.com. Like so: mail.example.com IN CNAME ghs.google.com. docs.example.com. IN CNAME ghs.google.com. calendar.example.com. IN CNAME ghs.google.com. anythingelse.example.com. IN CNAME ghs.google.com. (I've never actually used google apps for domains, so please set whatever values they recommend. I referred to this for the information above: http://support.google.com/sites/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=99448 ) Email routing is governed by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MX_Records. So you'll need those too: example.com. IN MX 1 ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM example.com. IN MX 5 5 ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM (reference: http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=140034 http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=174125) Hopefully this helps.