Email Hosting

Individuals, start-up operations, small to medium-sized businesses, and even some Fortune 500 companies leave running and managing email servers to the professionals. By relying on professional email hosting service providers, companies and individuals benefit from specialized services that would be far too costly for them to provide for themselves. Think of the email hosting service provider as a utility. A large business (even an individual) could generate its own electric power, but it is far more cost effective to purchase power from the local power company. The same is true of email hosting. Unlike most utilities, however, when it comes to choosing a hosting service there are hundreds, if not thousands, of choices available to you.

For most individuals, ISPs are their primary providers of email services. Most ISPs provide eight to 12 email accounts and store all email messages on massive servers that are accessed by thousands of clients each day. Most also provide email related services that make managing email accounts easy.

Email Hosting Solutions for Businesses
Businesses, on the other hand, often need more personalized services than ISPs can provide. Professional email hosting companies not only provide businesses with the same basic services offered by ISPs, they also offer business-specific utilities that are critical for optimizing business communication through email. Administrative tools for provisioning users, back-up solutions for storing valuable email data, and specialized features (like a business-wide footer attached to all emails), are also standard services for businesses. Most importantly, these services allow a company to set their email addresses to include the company name (JohnDoe@JohnDoeCompany.com).

Just as businesses must choose between shared and dedicated servers when selecting a web hosting provider, they must also choose between shared and dedicated servers when selecting an email hosting provider. With shared hosting, a company's emails are stored on a large email server along with the email data of many other companies. With dedicated email hosting, an entire server in set aside for one company's private use. Dedicated server email hosting offers businesses added security and control over their emails in addition to all of the benefits included in shared email hosting packages.