Email Hosting
Email Hosting
Email hosting services usually offer premium email as opposed to advertisement-supported free email or free webmail. Email hosting services thus differ from typical end-user email providers such as webmail sites. They cater mostly to demanding email users and small and medium-sized (SME) businesses, while larger enterprises usually run their own email hosting services on their own equipment using software such as Microsoft Exchange Server, IceWarp or Postfix. Hosting providers can manage a user's own domain name, including any email authentication scheme that the domain owner wishes to enforce in order to convey the meaning that using a specific domain name identifies and qualifies email senders.
Most email hosting providers offer advanced premium email solutions hosted on dedicated custom email platforms. The technology and offerings of different email hosting providers can therefore vary with different needs. Email offered by most webhosting companies is usually more basic standardized POP3-based email and webmail based on open source webmail applications like Horde, RoundCube or SquirrelMail. Almost all web hosting providers offer standard email hosting.
Benefits
Costs:
It is very cost-effective to hire professionals because they can spare you the trouble of spending additional resources on installing mail servers and maintaining technical teams to run them. Email hosting also provides businesses with a far more credible image because email addresses bear the business domain name.
Security:
Professional email hosting services will equip mail servers with the industry standard encryption; this guarantees that data sent from the server or to the server are encrypted whenever you sign in up to the moment you are not logging out. This means that all sensitive data cannot be intercepted or compromised. Email hosting solutions will also give secure access to clients through POP or IMAP. All traffic is well encrypted like passwords and usernames when these are sent from clients to servers for authentication.
Disk Space:
You are likely to get adequate storage space when you sign up with an email hosting solutions provider. While some will offer MB storage, there are others who may offer GB storage per mailbox. Those companies with flexible email hosting plans will provide you with even more space if you need it through easy upgrades.
Spam Protection:
Email hosting solutions will also effectively block malware and spam. They will have innovative filtering methods like white-listing and blacklisting, allowing users to make configurations which can automatically send these spam mails to quarantine folders instead of the inbox.