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Can I use my own domain name?

Yes, we can set up your own domain name for Odoo Apps or Business packs (paid subscriptions only), e.g: www.mycompany.com. We can also manage email addresses.

source: pricing page

I overlooked that.

SH*T. I am a 2 man company so I cannot even pay to have what I would call a very basic need for every business, i.e. beeing able to use its own domain name and its own email adresses. 

Hello Mario

Is it through the 12 € subscription or do I need a 99 € per month ?

"How can I link "http://www.my-domain.com" (or another subdomain of my domain) so that it lands on the Odoo Saas root of my account?"

You can use a cname dns record. Have a look at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNAME_record

With apache2, it is called a redirection (see http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/rewrite/remapping.html or http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_alias.html and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL_redirection )

You should also read http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_proxy.html which is nicer (the reverse proxy).

A reverse proxy (or gateway), by contrast, appears to the client just like an ordinary web server. No special configuration on the client is necessary. The client makes ordinary requests for content in the name-space of the reverse proxy. The reverse proxy then decides where to send those requests, and returns the content as if it was itself the origin.

A typical usage of a reverse proxy is to provide Internet users access to a server that is behind a firewall. Reverse proxies can also be used to balance load among several back-end servers, or to provide caching for a slower back-end server. In addition, reverse proxies can be used simply to bring several servers into the same URL space.

A reverse proxy is activated using the ProxyPass directive or the [P] flag to the RewriteRule directive. It is not necessary to turn ProxyRequests on in order to configure a reverse proxy.

Just an example, assuming you need to fake www.my-domain.tld/opendoo to https://my-company.odoo.com :

# Reverse Proxy for Odoo
ProxyRequests Off
SSLProxyEngine on

<Proxy *>
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
</Proxy>

ProxyPass /opendoo https://my-company.odoo.com
ProxyPassReverse /opendoo https://my-company.odoo.com

Not tested but should work...

CNAME is not an option : it'll give the good IP address but the Odoo's server is probably full of vservers, so without the correct address (my-company.odoo.com) it will fail.

Why not host your instance to Amazon Cloud? Free 750 hrs eveny month for the first year, and it's very easy to install your system.

I am understanding, now (March 2015) that for a 1 or 2 Person setup, Odoo Hosting is free.  (Be sure to use the Admin user as one of the users and then change the name/login etc).

I am going to try my own VPS next.  It is quite nice that Odoo provides this as a service at least for testing.  Difficulties seem to be in adding "out of system" extensions and doing much tinkering yourself.  You can seemingly tinker with the XML in the database though.

Good first impression here.  Yes, would be nice to resolve to our own domain name, I agree about that.

The Karma system, too, is relatively awkward.  Took me 12 clicks to get logged in an to post this.