A quick
insight into email hosting
E-mail
hosting is where a hosting company offers to carry out e-mail functions for its
customers. These operations can be as simple as sending or receiving mails and
as complex as global searching and database processing. The hosting company
that provides e-mail hosting plans to its customers will ensure that mailboxes stored
on their servers are protected from viruses and hackers and also that they
guarantee as good an uptime % as possible.
Email
hosting is provided by all types of hosting firms both large and small. The
services being offered usually include:
Webmail: a basic email program
which enables clients to access their emails wherever they like, as long as
they have internet connection.
Microsoft Outlook: For customers who
want a more robust and feature packed email program, the email hosting company
will provide them with a mailbox which they can connect to using an email
program such as Microsoft Outlook.
Microsoft Exchange: This is where a company
has their own dedicated email server but it is housed at the hosting
company’s data centre and not on their premises. Should you choose this email hosting option,
the hosting company will custom design your email server to meet the exact
needs of your business, take care of its full operation and ensure its always
up and running. At Storm Internet, we
offer Microsoft Exchange for small to medium sized companies.
http://www.storminternet.co.uk/solutions_exchange.asp
Who benefits from email hosting?
Email
hosting is designed especially for businesses that do not have the time, money
or internal resources to build a suitable internal IT infrastructure for
handling emails. Therefore by outsourcing email to an external company, costs
are lowered and the employees get on with building the business safe in the
knowledge that their emails are being handled by experts.
Appropriate storage space
When
registering any e-mail account, you will be allocated a certain amount of space
for each inbox depending on the email hosting package that has been purchased. Some
companies will provide megabytes of space while others will provide gigabytes
for every mailbox. It is always advisable to choose a solution that gives you the
flexibility to upgrade your email hosting plan should your future storage
requirements change.
Virus and spam filtering
A
quality webmail hosting package will provide the user with the reassurance that
harmful mails will be obstructed before they even enter the network. This is
done through the installation of virus software and spam filtering. Spam
filtering techniques include grey listing, white listing and blacklisting.
