That domain name you’ve been eyeing is finally yours, and you’ve also signed up with the perfect web host who perfectly understands and satisfies your business needs.
What’s the next step? Of course, exploring email hosting options.
What Is Email Hosting?
Isn’t it the same thing as web hosting? Not really!
While some web hosting service providers may also offer email hosting, not all email hosting service providers offer other hosting services—it is that important and pivotal for business growth. Simply put, if you have a domain name and you want your email to be customized accordingly, email-hosting is what you need.
If you’ve chosen a web hosting service, the service provider might also close you in on email hosting, bit since it’s not their primary domain, you can just expect POP3-email and simple security features.
In no way can this compare with a service provider that solely focuses on email hosting. However, if you do sign up for email hosting with your web hosting service, make sure that you evaluate it across all angles to be certain that you get high quality services.
On the other hand, if your web hosting service doesn’t provide email hosting, consider analyzing your businesses’ email needs and then finding an email hosting service that can match those needs and offer something extra to help your business as it grows.
Pro tip: The right email hosting service will prove pivotal to your email marketing campaigns in the long run.
Key Features
- Access to email through webmail, smartphone and favorite email client (such as Outlook)
- Backups/archiving
- Calendars
- Email authentication schemes
- Email hosting service providers often provide the following features:
- Folder and contacts management
- IMAP/POP3 services
- Large attachments
- Mail rules
- Mailing, white and blacklists
- Online storage
- Robust spam/virus protection
- Use of aliases, forwarders and autoresponders
The best part about email hosting services is that they eliminate the need to maintain in-house IT infrastructures, essential to facilitate streamlined correspondences. Why pay for it when your web hosting service provider offers it for free? Because a free service would never give you the level of security, customer support, features and scalability you need to ensure long term business growth.
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