Business Email Hosting solution: A Smart Choice for SMEs

We are living in the age of fast changing technology. In such a scenario, email hosting has become an imperative solution for corporates. It is one of the important ways of facilitating communication as well as establishing and maintaining professional contacts. Hence, businesses of all shapes and sizes are making a shift to Zimbra email hosting solutions.

Corporate email hosting is increasingly becoming popular among enterprises across the globe. In particular, a large number of small-to-mid size enterprises (SMEs) are adopting e-mail hosting over the traditional on-premises servers.

Let's take a closer look at various attributes, which makes it a perfect communication platform

Better Security: A service provider offering corporate e-mail hosting delivers additional security as a part of this solution. This is generally clubbed with various other features offered, including e-mail virus protection, firewalls, spam filtering, data back-up, disaster recovery, and regular monitoring of your servers.

• Firewalls - Business email hosting solution brings together multiple qualified professionals as well as in house security administrators, without incurring expenditures on human resources. The dedicated firewalls are best suitable for SMEs, who are on a constant run to save their money without compromising on their performance. It is maintained & monitored around the clock by security engineers. 
• Virus Protection – A service vendor scans all the messages in your mailbox for any virus/spyware and install latest antivirus updates on your system so that you work and operate in a highly secured environment.
• Spam Filtering – This enables organizations to filter spams before delivering the information. This keeps away junk emails and avoids wasting of resources. 
• Regular Monitoring – The regular monitoring of messages ascertains that all your operating systems, servers, and applications are running accurately as well as are delivering the best services to the client. 
  

More Reliability: Even though the actual downtime is relatively difficult to measure, migrating from an in-house email hosting environment to managed hosting can significantly decrease the downtime in three possible ways: 

• Redundant networks, continuous power supplies, and skilled technicians to promptly resolve issues
• Regular monitoring of the hosting environment and proactively identifying the potential issues
• 99.95% guaranteed uptime, as per the vendor’s service level agreements

To conclude, Zimbra email hosting is an enterprise-grade email hosting solution that enables businesses to enjoy more reliability, better functionality, and improved integration as compared to the conventional email services. 

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How To Choose An Appropriate Business Email Hosting Package

Some years back, choosing an email hosting provider was a cake walk. One would just have to go through the service level and gather client feedback and the job would be done! Today, it's a completely different story altogether. Sadly, it is not the same story now.

Such time worn measures of choosing an email hosting provider do not work anymore. Several factors beyond uptime and service levels influence the decision of choosing an appropriate email hosting package. These aspects have been discussed below:

• Money Back Guarantee – Many providers provide this guarantee.
• 24x7 Technical Support – It is and is provided via voicemail/email round-the-clock.
• Control Panel – It helps to manage email accounts, read statistics as well as configure auto responders. In such cases a hosting company provides a centralized control panel with a user friendly GUI.
• Website Statistics – It is important from a marketing perspective so that you can keep a track of data in a readable format. Ensure that these statistics are regularly updated and the display gets configured properly. 
• CGI – Common Gateway Interface is a protocol of server for script and web page interaction. Many a times you will be allowed by a hosting company to install and run CGI scripts on your account. Many business email hosting companies provide pre-installed CGI scripts free of cost as part of the hosting package.
  
• POP Email Accounts – Post Office Protocol email account is hosted on your site. You can have >1 POP account to set up email addresses and forward emails. 
• Auto Responders –They allow users to send emails to specific email ID's and receive auto replies. 
• SSL Secure Server – Secure Socket Layer is a protocol that enables encrypted transmissions on the World Wide Web.It is handy for transmission of sensitive data (such as credit card information and e-commerce transactions).
• Multiple Data Center Locations – Your email company must have backup sites across multiple locations.
• Hard Disk Space – Your Microsoft Exchange email hosting provider should have ample hard disk space to cater to all business critical needs.

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