Email Hosting

Email Hosting

An email hosting service is an Internet hosting service that runs email servers.

Email hosting services usually offer premium email at a cost as opposed to advertising supported free email or free webmail. Email hosting services thus differ from typical end-user email providers such as webmail sites. They cater mostly to demanding email users and Small and Mid Size (SME) businesses, while larger enterprises usually run their own email hosting service. Email hosting providers allow for premium email services along with custom configurations and large number of accounts. In addition, hosting providers manage user's own domain name, including any email authentication scheme that the domain owner wishes to enforce in order to convey the meaning that using a specific domain name identifies and qualifies email senders.

Most email hosting providers offer advanced premium email solutions hosted on dedicated custom email platforms. The technology and offerings of different email hosting providers can therefore vary with different needs. Email offered by most webhosting companies is usually more basic standardized POP3 based email and webmail based on open source webmail applications like Horde or Squirrelmail. Almost all webhosting providers offer standard basic email while not all email hosting providers offer webhosting.

About Intermedia

Since 1995, Intermedia has been providing small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) with enterprise-strength hosted IT – at a cost-effective price. We are proud to say that we are the global leader in Microsoft Exchange hosting and Web hosting for SMBs.

We run the same robust IT that large corporations use, but delivered as a service over the Internet for a low monthly fee. With no large upfront investment, SMBs can enjoy the same business email and collaboration that Fortune 500 companies use, plus professional Web hosting and Fax via Email.

Our hosted Microsoft Exchange and Web servers are located in world-class datacenters, constantly managed by our highly-experienced specialist technicians and engineers. We deliver business email with no downtime, plus 24×7 customer support through our Microsoft Gold Certified staff.

Intermedia's years of experience and financial stability, along with our high-quality service, have made us a trusted partner to tens of thousands of SMBs worldwide. As business email becomes increasingly critical, these companies rely on our Microsoft Exchange hosting to provide them with 99.999% guaranteed uptime, something which would be impossible or unaffordable with in-house IT.

For more details, read about our hosted Exchange, Web hosting (including Windows hosting and ColdFusion hosting) or Fax via Email services.