E-mail has long been stripped of its novelty factor. Nowadays it is as important for an individual as is the need to dress up, or may be the analogy I chose was not appropriate, but what the heck…you got the idea, isn’t it?

The point is e-mail is important, and for businesses doubly so. But do you know how to shop for an e-mail hosting provider? In the paragraphs following this one, you will read about three things you need to look for when shopping for an e-mail host

Protection

This is important. This is very important. Do you want me to write the “important” phrase one more time before you will believe how much important protection feature is in your e-mail host, or will you believe me in just one reiteration?

Make sure the e-mail host you are going to use provide, virus (including malware, spyware, trojan, spyware, etc.) identity theft, privacy, and SPAM protections. Each one of them is must-have for an e-mail host, or else you will risk losing your important data.

Disk space

There are two sides to disk space. One is how much disk space you are getting per e-mail ID — go with the one that offers at least 1 or 2 GBs of space, and another side of disk space asks you to find out how many e-mail addresses you can open in one hosting account.

You should go for the one that gives you option to open unlimited e-mail accounts, each with 1 or 2 GBs of space. This will help you have different IDs for different employees, organization, function. Because of this feature you will not have to provide one email id (info@yourbusiness.com) for sales enquiry, support enquiry, price enquiry, and technical enquiry.

Price

If you thought this is not important than think over this twice. Price is very important, and more so is opportunity cost. If you can get all these features in $1/ month than why would you waste $5/ month? It does not need an Einstein to understand that the $4/ month saving could be used for better thing.

There are e-mail hosts that give you all the above features at as little as $1/ month. Don’t believe it? Check out: Gossimer’s e-mail hosting product and you will come to believe it.