Google Apps

Awesome bundle of web applications hosted on Google servers including:

New sites are easy to set up if the domain is created through Google in the sign up process. Existing sites require:

Both new and existing domains require user account setup including administrative authorization.

The Google Web Page Creator is a flexible end user tool for building content but does not support database driven websites and only limited scripting.

You can adopt Google Apps independently. That is you can have Google mail but a web site on a different server.

Basic setup takes about two hours.