My friend in USA ask me how to get email from google apps.
I pointing him to my post at wordpress.com, since the post using Indonesia language then he ask me again to repost in English language.
Taken from wikipedia :
Google Apps is a service from Google for using custom domain names with several Google products. It features several known Web applications, including Gmail, Google Calendar, Talk, Page Creator, and Docs & Spreadsheets.
I try to write down my step to make griya.web.id up, by following the steps at the end I get :
1. Free hosting at google ( 100 MB )
2. My own email ( user @ griya.web.id ), each account get 2 GB space
Here’s the steps :
Fill all required information, confirmation page will be displayed 
Check my email and open email confirmation from google
Activate my account by click provided link
2. Verification step success, followed by signup for google apps by click this banner:
Fill in all related information
Domain creation in progress
Create administrator account
3. My domain successfully join google apps, time to add services 
I just add domain and email, the rest can be added later
for accessibility purpose, I add CNAME record
Click “I’ve completed these steps” button, do the same for email
Updating service, can be less or more days, depend on dns setting
After all service up and dns propagation success I try to send email from other email account, here’s my new email box at google apps
no need to worry about spam and downtime, I believe in google server 🙂