Email Hosting: Advantages and Cost

Going along with the advent of technology is the helpful and fast-reacting email services. There are actually two kinds of email services, one is the advertising supported email, and the other is premium email. The latter is widely used for hosting services and also is defined as a professional grade email providing services which requires fees in contrast to that of advertising support emails which are available for usage for free. Premium email is what email hosting primarily provide. Unlike the advertising supported emails, email hosting service providers caters the needs of demanding users who belongs to the bracket of Small to Medium Business (SME’s) because larger corporations do their email hosting themselves with the help of Microsoft Exchange.

Service providers do not only offer premium email but also custom configurations and large number of accounts. Hosting providers also manage user’s own domain name including the feature email authentication which some domain owners obliges to provide for a qualification and identification of genuine email senders.

The cost for email hosting services varies from service providers and the services and packages they provide. If you do plan for having a premium email along with its hosting services, the annual cost comes in the range of $24- $120. Some offer unlimited storage but some have storage quota going from 1GB- 100 GB, some offer Outlook connectors, and some have Outlook 2011 Support in their package. They also provide the basics of the email hosting process namely: IMAP, POP3 and SMTP (from support to security). It is also a need for every premium email owners to protect their properties enveloped in their respected emails from disturbances and viruses. So, hosting providers make sure that they have the latest and most robust spam and virus protection to prohibit unwanted infiltrations and corruption of files.