The advent of electronic mail has bought a whole new era of communication. With it, the life of common man has greatly changed. Electronic mails have made it possible to communicate with anyone in any part of the world.

1. Email hosting service: The new era of communication:
An Internet hosting service that is in charge of operating email servers is called an email hosting.
Company having large server resource provide Email Hosting service. There are several types of
services that an email hosting package offers but majority of services is cater to provide assistance to
large scale businesses that includes access to custom configuration, an assortment of accounts, and
utilization of own domain designation.
Email hosting solutions provides you with a number of other features that includes setting up
email aliases, setting up a catch all email account, forwarding emails, email distribution list set-up,
marketing feature etc.
There are two types of service provider- a free service provider and a paid service provider.
When you create an email id with a free service provider, the domain name of the service provider with
be the domain name of your email ID whereas a paid service provider will allow to put the domain
name of your business thus creating an identity of your business. Many businesses often ignore the
significance of email hosting till there is a need and then they start looking for an email hosting
service provider by spending extra money.
Benefits of Email Hosting:
Secure Webmail Access:
it has the ability to track each and every transition that happens from the moment user sign in to the
moment user signs out. the Email host companies equip their servers with a 128 bit industrial
encryption for secure webmail access. Webmail access will let you access your mail irrespective of the
time and the place you are in. All you need to have is a laptop or a computer or a phone and you can
reply to all your mails.
IMAP/POP and SMTP Access:
An Email can be access and read with the help of protocols such as IMAP and POP. SMTP is used to
send mails. So before you choose a service provider make sure it provides the protocols that you need.
Adequate Storage Space:
When creating an email hosting account a service provider will provide storage space where thousands
of mail can be stored. This storage space is either offered be in Mbs or Gbs. With the help of a flexible
hosting plan a user can either upgrade or downgrade the storage limit.
Shared Address Book:
Email hosting solution also offer private and shared address books that can be used with any mail client
that supports LDAP directory services.
Email Filtering:
This feature allows you to customize and organize mails and prioritize them as well in case you get lots
of mails.
Spam and Virus Filtering:
This feature provides spam filtering, anti-virus check, firewall protection etc. This ensures that

2. potentially harmful mail is blocked before it comes into your system. Thus it provides a hassle free
email experience.