Email Hosting

Email evolved 40 years ago and has become one of the greatest inventions in the 20th century. Email and internet are two inseparable entities which are the main pillars of communication. Email is used for business and entertainment, governmental communication and personal issues. Currently email is changing its face, but still the essence remain the same.

Email web hosting is the main service which provides the possibility to send and receive email
messages using two protocols – POP and IMAP. POP protocol is used when email messages are downloaded to the computer immediately. When IMAP email is used, the user sees only headlines and downloads messages on demand.

Email hosting is one of the most important features of web hosting itself. Usually the website takes little space in comparison to the email mailboxes. It is important to plan the email usage and adjust hosting plan to the email more than to the websites.

Email hosting also includes another important service. Webmail is the application which is used to read the POP email online wherever the user can connect to internet. It has fewer features than software, but the main advantage is that it can be used from any computer.

Email hosting also has another features which are less important, but sometimes they are really useful.

Spam is the greatest enemy of email. Web hosting plans include the special email protection tools
such as spam filters. They are used to create special rules which help avoiding some unwanted emails getting to the inbox. Email uses lots of disk space; therefore the plan with unlimited disk space is recommended.

How Email Web Hosting Works

Email webhosting works quite simple. The email management application is also for setting the limits of the mailboxes. Once the mailboxes are set the automatic user access points are created. Now email addresses are already created and POP and SMPT servers can be used. Usually email host has two servers, one called a SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) server, the other one called a POP3 (Post Office Protocol ) server. The SMTP server listens on port 25, a standard port for email transmission, while POP3 listens on port 110. Whenever you send email, your email client contacts the SMTP server to send the email. Usually SMTP server is one for all the hosted emails, for example smtp.domain.com. POP server is already the customer’s server pop.yourdomain.com. This makes easy management of the emails which are sent out and received. Also this helps server to fight the part of spam messages which are sent daily.

Email management application is also used to set such setting like message size. The 10MB message is downloaded quite fast while 25MB messages can use some of the bandwidth, therefore the limitations are applied.

Email hosting is a management of some secret information, therefore sometimes it is highly recommended to purchase a simple and inexpensive SSL certificate for email access. This prevents from losing the private data from email. If more security measures are required, the extra encryption tools should be used which are not in the hosting, but used in the computer instead.

Email hosting is an essential application which can be managed by everyone. No extensive system administration knowledge and experience is needed.

Host1Plus Features Using Email Hosting

The main email hosting features provided by Host1Plus are the following:

• Unlimited disk space (in case Maxi shared web hosting plan is ordered or any VPS hosting plan). Host1Plus provides the generous hosting plan which allow having mailboxes of unlimited size.

• Easy to use email management application with the graphical interface. It allow managing the emails with simplicity and without any stress as everything is clear and intuitive.

• Webmail applications. Usually Host1Plus provides at least two webmail applications, which can be chosen either by the system administrator by user himself. Webmail applications are free of charge.

• Auto-responders. The special rules for all incoming email, which allow an automatic reply to every received email with a pre-set message text.

• SpamAssasin and anti-spam filters. Host1Plus provides the special spam protection tools such as filters and SpamAssassin application for filter management on server.

• Email backup. One of the most important features is the backing up all the emails. This is needed not only when emails are being transferred from one server to another, but on regular basis to protect them and archive for future references.

• Support. Host1Plus has a great support which will be delighted to help with any email hosting issue which may occur. Support is working 24/7.

Unlimited Email Hosting

Email hosting is based on how many email addresses one domain has and what are the mailbox quotas. For example, if the company has 100 employees who need an email for their everyday work and each of the mailboxes has got 5 GB quota, which means Medium shared web hosting plan with 500 GB of space is not a good solution.
Email may use all the disk space and there will be some problems cleaning the mailboxes.
That’s why it is highly recommended using the Maxi shared hosting plan with the unlimited disk space and the bandwidth. Unlimited disk space means that there is no limitations to the disk size and the data transfer rate.

Host1Plus provides unlimited email hosting for the customers who order at least Maxi shared hosting plan or any VPS plan of 20.

Shared web hosting has got lots of limitations pre-installed applications, while VPS hosting allow managing own applications and resources, which are dedicated to the email. VPS hosting is actually a cloud VPS hosting. Cloud technologies allow easy allocation of unused spaces in different servers, therefore the email boxes can be unlimited size.

Email Marketing

Email marketing requires specific tool which allow sending the newsletters to the customer base. Sometimes mailing lists are not very big, but sometimes they contain thousands of emails in text and HTML format. There are some open source and free applications which can be installed with Softaculous auto-installer, which is provided in shared web hosting plans:

• Webinsta Maillist

• poMMo

• ccMail

• OpenNewsletter

The VPS hosting does not contain the special mass email applications, but they can be installed on demand.

The special application is needed in order to create and manage the email databases and connect them to the websites using API. This can be used for any informational websites which have email subscriptions of daily or weekly newsletters. Email marketing option is very important to the email web hosting as lots of online tools sends thousands of emails a day. The special software is used because it has some guarantees that sent emails will not be considered as spam ones.
Email marketing can be used in small, medium and large online tools and services. Maxi plan of web hosting or Cloud VPS plan is used for email marketing campaigns and features. This feature needs some knowledge of system administrations, because few different applications are used simultaneously and exchange the data.

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