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Nowadays, we hear different types of web hosting services and they vary from email hosting to blog hosting. But have we ever properly explored the domain of email hosting as this is one of first hosting services available for internet? Let’s try to briefly understand what email hosting really is and how the service functions.

Basically, in email hosting services, the email servers provide the email facility and other related facilities to customers. There are two distinct categories of email services: premium emails and free emails. Users will have to pay for premium emails as they carry additional advantages as opposed to free email services. Free email services are supported by advertising and are not a personalized service. Most free webmail service providers do not let users, use offline mail clients to manage the email unless they upgrade their free account to a premium account.

When it comes to email hosting services, they differ from typical end-user email providers such as webmail sites. Usually the email hosting services provide services to small and mid sized businesses. Sometime they may provide services to large scale businesses but most likely large businesses run their own email servers.

You may think that in the process of receiving an email from a friend, there is only one or two email hosting services involved. As an example, if you receive an email to your emailhostone.com account from a friend who uses a emailhosttwo.com account, you may think only two email hosting services are involved in the whole process. But there are chances that you may be wrong. There are other number of service providers involved in the process where they perform various tasks such as spam filtering etc.

Most email service providers customerizes the email solutions offered for organizations. The technology and the platform will be decided based upon the requirements of the client. Depending on the security requirements needed by clients, email hosting companies may have to take extra measurements on handing the emails.

Usually, all email facilities offered by web hosting companies are standard POP3 based email and open source based webmail applications such as Horde. If you watch closely, you will see a common trend among almost all the web hosting services offering email facility to their end-users.