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Local web hosting companies are less risky if you ask me because of the underwater cables incident a few years back. A lot of servers had very slow down time.

If you are a small company and you can afford such down times, then you can consider the overseas servers as they are much much cheaper than local ones.

Buy from a credible company not a third party domain registrar. Most of the time your domains wont be sold away unless you did not renew it.

Once you buy a domain, you can apply for Google Apps. They provide the email service free with your domain extensions. In this case you have to point the domains to the Google servers.

How to..If you want to DIY, I will encourage you to check on http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/editions.html
else you can always engage people like me to help you out. Service charges apply.

Yup they do give free emails but the email spaces are shared with your web hosting space.

I would encourage people to use separate email servers from your hosting server. This is in case your server goes down, your email will still be safe. You know how important it is right to keep emails.

The pros is that the server space is not shared with your email.
 
So when you buy a server for example 1GB of space for web hosting.

You can still have email space which Google provides over 7 GB of email space with such address fadzuli@xxxx.com

The cons. Google Apps sometimes goes haywire too..Mine jammed a few times, probably due to the high traffic but most of the time its smooth. As its free there is a tendency that Google may change their policies anytime and you can get affected badly. Such a thing is beyond control.

Search for Google Apps.