The Scalability Of Email Hosting

Scalability is a fundamental quality that email hosting, web hosting, and other IT products should have considering the speed by which technology changes. Each change brings about new features and better performance. Each change also brings new hardware requirements. Because of these changes, companies see a chance to become more competitive, and this increases customer satisfaction and attracts profits.

Scalability is available for email hosting accounts. Because of this, owners of email hosting companies can provide more space for their clients when they demand it. The addition of storage will not adversely affect the data processing in the data centers. In addition, clients enjoy flexibility and reliability in email processing. They can cancel any time they want because there are no plans that demand locked-in periods.

The infrastructure for email hosting is configured to provide lightning fast services. The software used for managing the system is agile enough to maintain normal operations even during maintenance periods. As a result, downtime is reduced and your data remains secure. With additional 24-7 monitoring, even during holidays, you can expect a team of server administrators to be more responsive to facility-related problems.

Syncing and Sharing: The Social Aspects Of Email Hosting

Emails are not simply vehicles of communication, but also virtual arenas for socialization. In the workplace, we are used to collaborating in projects with colleagues in the same department or company, or with consultants and freelancers. Because of the changing landscape of employment, which now includes remote workers and outsourced employees in other countries, collaboration has become a big hurdle to managing a workforce. Through syncing and sharing information in email hosting, employees in any location or time zone can participate in a collaborative project using the latest technology.

Sync and Swim: Carry Your Data Wherever You Go

Syncing refers to synchronizing, which is a vital process of managing information in this modern, fast-paced world. Aside from working with a desktop, we also work using laptops and mobile phones. Smart phones and tablets, in particular, bring together the convenience and power of a laptop and a mobile phone. Unlike a laptop, PC tablets or smart phones do not hamper movement. People won’t see you lugging around a laptop bag. In fact, you can surreptitiously put in extra work while enjoying a bottle or two of beer at your favorite bar with your friends after work.

Syncing in email hosting uses mobile push instead of the traditional IMAP, which is more common among desktop email clients. Mobile push takes advantage of its flexibility and compatibility with the Windows OS, Java, and most mobile devices. Synchronization of emails, contacts and calendar information is easy using mobile push, which effects a seamless connection between your mobile device and the World Wide Web.

Sharing Is Easy With Groupware

For colleagues working on a project, the contact information they have of each other serve as their lifeline to one another. Without this vital connection, the flow of communication is hindered and the sharing of ideas is affected. Projects that rely on brainstorming, analysis and feedback need this constant flow of communication between team members. Through email hosting services, your teammates become more productive.

Project managers share one calendar for all team members to use to keep track of the project’s progress and to schedule meetings where all team members are present. This global calendar automatically notifies each team member of important events. The same calendar can also be synchronized across different platforms, such as Apple iCal, Thunderbird, or Outlook.

In turn, employees can use the same calendar for personal appointments. They can customize their calendar’s privacy settings and share certain information with people they trust. This is especially crucial for high-level users whose personal information is as valuable as the company’s assets.

How does email hosting filter your emails?

Email hosting has its own stringent measures in fighting spam and protecting emails from viruses, malware and spyware. These measures include proprietary algorithmic software to mark an email as spam or not. The software uses stop words associated with spam and junk emails. If words, such as FREE, SALE and DISCOUNTS, deemed suspicious are in the email’s subject line or inside the body, then those emails go straight to the Spam folder.

However, users still hold the final decision whether to mark an email as safe or spam. All the senders whose emails were marked SPAM by email hosting users were included in a real-time blackhole list, which the email filter software uses to track spam activity. To strengthen the filter’s performance, email hosting makes use of other blackhole lists, such as SPAMCOP, to reduce the entry of spam.

Admittedly, some emails get binned because of a word or two, but these emails come from a safe and legitimate online business. These emails are false positives. To improve the performance of email hosting filters, reduction of false positives is called for. Through an advanced heuristics engine, which is part of the proprietary algorithmic software, each email goes under scrutiny, particularly focusing on its headers for signs of modification. The software also looks for repetition of words and compares emails with known formats of spam emails.

Links in emails are also circumspect and automatically scanned for suspicious activity, such as redirects to virus-laden sites. The antivirus software scans each email based on a virus definitions file, which receives updates as often as 24 times each day. Scanning happens the moment you received the email to ensure that whatever virus is contained in that message will not get past the security measures. Users can confidently open any email they want without fear of contaminating the system.

Benefits Of Becoming An Email Hosting Reseller

Email hosting is a good way to get the best of email for your business. Unlike the free email services, which most spammers and scammers use to fool people, a legitimate email address that uses your business name as domain reflects a professional image. In business, a professional reputation plays an important role in building trust with customers or clients. However, another benefit with purchasing an email hosting account presents an opportunity to become an email hosting reseller.

An email hosting reseller can make use of the extra number of email addresses in his account. Each email address can fetch a dollar or more for each month when someone rents them. For example, as an email hosting subscriber, you have the privilege to create up to a thousand email addresses in your account. If you needed only half of that, then you’ll be paying for the rest of the service. If you resell the half of your account to another person, then you will be sharing the payment for the whole email hosting account.

Aside from saving money in email hosting, becoming a reseller also brings a few other benefits. Resellers enjoy discounted rates for their own email hosting account, which could bring down costs to 30% of the standard mailbox pricing. Mailbox count, storage size, features, contract type, infrastructure, and support level affect the pricing. An entry package for email hosting resellers usually starts at half a dollar per mailbox for a minimum number of inboxes.

Although email hosting provides standard software for email management and security, resellers have the choice to use their preferred software, especially open source programs, such as MailWasher, which protects your email server from viruses, malware and phishing attacks. Te email hosting reseller also has the option to suggest an email client, such as Zimbra aside from Microsoft Outlook. In the same vein, resellers can configure their email hosting service to be compatible with iPhones and iPads through the Microsoft Exchange application.

How Email Hosting Differs From Free Email Services

Although email hosting and free email services offer the same basic features, the quality of service you receive differs greatly. Mainly, paid email services exist because the privilege of owning unlimited storage and using mobile technology to access one’s emails cost a lot to maintain and update. Not only that, the prices of email hosting packages differ greatly across various alternatives, such as in the case of Google Apps For Business and Mail Circuit.

Looking at an overview of their respective services, Google Apps for Business and Mail Circuit both offer the same features of a paid email service for companies. However, Google costs at least $50 per user every year, whereas Mail Circuit charges at least $1.50 per mailbox each month for up to 100 accounts. In a year, for a hundred users in a company, Google Apps costs $5000 while Mail Circuit only costs $1800, which is a great difference for small businesses who want an affordable email host.

If a small business has less than 50 people, including the owner, then the free Google Apps provides basic services, such as the use of messaging and collaboration apps as well as a blogging platform, a web album service, and a feed reader. However, if 50 accounts is not enough and you require more storage for each email account, then paying for an email hosting service is highly recommended.

Aside from additional space, email hosting also offers compatibility with email clients, such as Microsoft Outlook, and with mobile devices, such as Blackberry. No software or hardware is needed to use a web client. Users can access their email hosting account through the web using any Java-enabled browser, such as Opera or Firefox.

More importantly, nearly all services for email hosting provide 99% uptime, contact and calendar synchronizing, advanced spam and virus protection, flexible plans, and carrier-class infrastructure for reliability and scalability. They also follow the standards of network security, such as data encryption and SSL connections. Lastly, in the event of technical problems, users can rely on guaranteed assistance from a trained tech support team 24 hours a day every day of the week.

Why Mailcircuit?

Mailcircuit has been a trusted email hosting and Anti-Spam Brand for over 11 Years.

  • Uptime of 99.99%
  • Unlimited Storage
  • Less Spam
  • Easy To Use
  • Cool Webmail
  • Excellent Support

We Take Spam Mighty Seriously…

Mailcircuit revolutionized the anti spam industry with the first 100% Spam Free Email Service using the Challenge and Response technique.

Today we pride ourselves on utilizing leading edge systems that deliver less spam and with less hassle for the average email hosting customer.