Email Hosting

More about email hosting

Good email hosting services are hard to find these days. At best, it seems, web hosting providers reluctantly include a free email account accessible through a messy and slow web mail. But for those of you who use your domain email frequently and are on the look out for a good solid email solution to go with web hosting deal, here is email web hosting, specialized on making your email experience the best ever.

Get a webmail that won't make you go haywire

For many businesses setting up a website and looking for proper web hosting, a good email solution is very important since much of today's customer communication goes through email. But even as a private website owner, having a user-friendly email-account attached to your domain and accessible through you hosting account can be very useful. That is, if you choose email hosting. No more hassle with slow webmail platforms or complicated account preferences. A web host dedicated in providing the best email services will not allow any customer aggravation. Offering great webmail solutions, unlimited email accounts and supporting POP3 and IMAP, what you could ever want and need email-wise the email host will provide.

Primary Functions of Email Hosting

An email hosting service offers premium email, as opposed to those webmail offerings supported by ads. Small businesses can make excellent use of the services provided by an email hosting service:

- Custom email configurations
- Large number of email accounts
- Domain name management for that vital right-side of a company's email address
- Email authentication for variations and subsets within the domain name
- Identification and channeling of incoming email based on custom email name conventions

The most important duty a provider of an email hosting service does provide is the management and operation of the email servers that provide the email services to you. You no longer have to worry about server hardware, OS service packs or software upgrades. What you get is standard POP3, IMAP or SMTP email based on open source email server applications that work with standard email clients, including Outlook and any other POP3, IMAP or SMTP email client. Anti-virus protection and spam filtering are standard features on the server side. Synchronization of mobile clients, such as Blackberry devices or iPhones, is done quickly and easily.

Features to Look For

Scalability, performance and reliability are all integral components of these email systems at a cost much less than running the same system in-house. Standard features to look for in a provider's offering of an email hosting solution are:

- Email forwarding
- Custom vacation messaging
- Unlimited number of attachments
- Unlimited attachment size
- Global access via Internet
- Shared calendaring
- Shared contact list
- Administration of group and user lists
- Accessible company directory
- Purge or recall within spam folder
- Option for filtering messages on server side
- Synchronizing tasks, calendars and contacts

24x7 support should be a given for any provider, though they may choose to implement such support not only by phone, but also via email and online. Support should also be available for migration from other email platforms.