Email hosting vs web hosting
 

I am evaluating different types of hosting providers and not sure what is best. I looked at rackspace, zoho, and fastmail for email providers. They cost about $40/yr/user for a medium level package. I have also looked at some web hosting providers like dreamhost, ipage, hostgator and others. These cost up to about $100/yr and offer unlimited users, storage, and stuff. Why would I not go with one of the latter from the web hosting group? Are there more feature rich options with the email only hosting services?

Don't use a web hosting as your email hosting, they suck.
There are the professional email providers here, including but not only:

• luxsci
• fastmail
• runbox
• pobox
• polarismail
• redpin
• rollernet

Email Hosting vs. Web Hosting
 

Most web hosting companies will only provide you with POP3 email hosting and also their spam/virus filtering may not be up to par with email hosting providers. Most email providers will offer both IMAP and POP3 email service along with a rich set of features.

You can experiment with some of the email services from web hosting providers and then compare them to some of the email providers to note the differences.

Thanks,:D

Opinion regarding email hosting and web hosting
 

I don't recommend you using the web hosting as your email hosting. You see they both have different set of features. You can easily find a list of reliable email hosting providers available on google. Similarly, for website hosting my opinion is to go with Cloudways hosting provider.

I wouldn't recommend a web hosting service as a primary email service either. However, to contradict myself, about 25 years ago I signed up with a web host for the sole purpose of installing Squirrelmail (http://squirrelmail.org/) for my own use. I was soon developing and maintaining several websites for some local bands and businesses, and I installed and used Dada Mail (https://www.dadamailproject.com/) to operate mailing lists on some of those sites. I still have an active mailbox with my web host (https://powweb.com/) but I use it very little. I now use the email service Fastmail (https://www.fastmail.com/), and have for nearly 2 decades.

- Bruce

Old thread revival! I agree with the last two--go with a specialist for email. There's actually a lot more to it than meets the eye, which you will soon find out if you use a provider that doesn't really, really know email. I suspect most web hosts have their focus on the web part of things and not the email side. On the other hand, it can be a cheap way to create a few email addresses for a web site and then forward them to a real email provider where you manage your email, though I prefer to create forwarding addresses at the domain host level if possible. It is nice to be able to segregate the tasks so that when one goes down for some reason it doesn't knock out your entire communications network.

Whoa! I didn't even look at the post dates of the first few posts, only the last. :eek:

- Bruce