Email Hosting vs Web Hosting

Oct-10th-2008

Now this is an interesting debate that isn’t discussed that much. Email Hosting is certainly not as popular as normal Web Hosting, but people still use it.

Email Hosting is basically as it says - Its hosting your own Emails - So you aren’t using a free email hosting provider, you can make email addresses for your business or company. These sorts of email addresses are important for a business, free email providers look very unprofessional if you’re advertising them.

Obviously everyone knows what Web Hosting is - hosting for all of the website (Including emails, databases etc…). This probably isn’t anything new to you.

On the one hand, the Email Hosting is better because the price is more affordable generally - You’ll be paying less for the emails, and if you only need emails and not a website, then you would think that there would be no point in spending more on something that you don’t actually need, right? Email Hosting can be more reliable since there isn’t much storage.

On the other hand, the Web Hosting is better because even though the price will probably be more, you’ll probably end up with an unlimited amount of email accounts, and a lot more storage space. The best thing about this is that even though you’re only doing it for the emails, if you wanted in future, you could easily setup a website through it too, so it has more potential if you wanted.

In conclusion, Web Hosting is of a better value because you’ll have unlimited email accounts (Which some Email Hosting Companies don’t offer) and you’ll have a bigger storage space. Also, there are generally more reputable Web Hosting Companies than there are of Email Hosting Companies, mainly because Email Hosting is a lot less popular.

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