Email Hosting

Email hosting services provide and operate servers that are leased to users, (usually businesses), for their email needs. These services are normally premium services which offer advanced email solutions that differ from the usual free web mail options like Gmail and Yahoo. Email hosting providers operate infrastructures that can handle the demands of high email traffic from big enterprises or small-to-medium sized businesses.

It is possible to host your own emails but if you’re a small-to-medium sized business, it is recommended that you buy an email hosting plan. This is because setting up and maintaining your own email server requires serious investment in IT and a whole department dedicated to it which may drag the resources you need to manage your business.

Email hosting involves using your domain name for your emails. This means that your email address should look like xxxx@yourdomainname.com instead of xxxx@gmail.com. The email hosting provider is responsible for providing spam and virus protection, backup service, as well as other advanced solutions to keep your email running. Most web hosting providers offer email hosting as part of the entire hosting package.

If you’re operating a business, it is never recommended that you select free webmail services like Google and Yahoo, as its very easy for your customers to not trust you. Anyone else could register a free account that is very similar to yours and take money so your customers and other industry players will not take you seriously. Although some email hosting plans with your domain name come free of charge with web hosting, you may need a premium plan if you want:

a)       Better authentication schemes and higher security

b)      Higher server package that can deal with high-traffic

Professional email hosting comes with benefits that cannot be enjoyed through free web mail services. Some of these benefits include:

-          Virus and spam filtering

-          Adequate storage space

-          Shared address book

-          Secure POP3 and IMAP access

-          Encrypted web mail access

-          Reliable backup service

-          Brand image enhancement

-          Redundancy and scalability

We have a number of step-by-step email setup guides for different programmes and devices. Visit our Help Centre here.

Discount Domains provides comprehensive email security protection from Spam, Viruses, Trojans, Phishing and unwanted content.

• Two Anti-Virus engines including ClamAV and Kaspersky Labs.
• Multi layered Anti-Spam analyses resulting in 98% plus Spam detection.
• Less than 0.03% False Positive Rate.
• Content Filtering.

Through your web hosting, you can handle your business email in different ways. You can set up your email on an exchange server if you’re running a windows hosting account, use your control panel to set up different IMAP email addresses or run your email through Google Apps which will require you to tweak your DNSMX record.

ActiveSync is a synchronisation method that uses direct push technology to ensure changes in email, calendars, contacts and collaboration items are automatically recorded on the mail server and the smart device in real-time. Synchronising your Discount Domains Mail with smart devices is quick, easy and automatic with ActiveSync.

Simply visit our Help Centre for answers to more of your questions or contact our support team.

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