What is Email Hosting?

E-mail is a vital communication tool for any modern business.

Our bespoke Prelude e-mail services can provide a complete package of features for you and your employees to correspond with clients, customers, suppliers, contacts and colleagues.

We host Microsoft Exchange

Microsoft Exchange provides a more sophisticated, integrated and synchronised communication platform for your team. We can host and manage your Exchange database including:

  • MX records configuration and maintenance
  • Mailboxes and distribution lists
  • Outlook Web Access (OWA) from any web browser
  • Mobile and tablet sync

What is included in Microsoft Exchange?

Exchange email is an protocol developed by Microsoft as an alternative to POP3 and IMAP. While fundamentally all three protocols are just different ways for a user to read their emails, Exchange email also allows for better integration of additional email features such as shared contacts and calendars. This allows a business to easily sync contacts, diaries, calendars, tasks, etc. with all of their employees. Exchange email can also be delivered to our customers as a part of Microsoft 365, though with less flexibility.

This extra data is stored on an Exchange server, so individuals can send requests to the server to, say, book a meeting and see, right from their email client, which of their colleagues are available to attend at any given time. IMAP and POP3 are just email protocols, so don’t allow for this extra functionality.

Cost-effective

Hosted Exchange lets you rent space in an email service provider’s datacentre, which for SMEs is a much more cost-effective method over having on-premises servers

No knowledge needed

Because you’re renting space in someone else’s data centre, it means that all of the technical aspects of managing an Exchange email server are taken away from you

Custom email address

Instead of having to choose from available @gmail.com or @hotmail.com addresses, you can use your website’s name in your email address, e.g. you@yourdomain.com

Email on the move

Unlike POP3 and IMAP, the Exchange protocol allows you to access your tasks, calendars and shared contacts while you’re on the move – from a phone, laptop or tablet

Send larger files

A hosted email solution will typically allow you to send larger email attachments than free webmail – great for sending those high quality photos and videos etc.

More mailbox features

An Exchange email solution includes a more advanced mailbox e.g. antivirus/spam, mailbox rules, forwarders/autoresponders, & backups/archives

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Email Hosting?

Email Hosting is a service that allows individuals and businesses to create, send, receive, and manage emails using their own custom domain name. It provides users with professional email addresses, usually ending with their domain name (e.g., yourname@yourcompany.com).

The Techy Stuff

  • 50 Gb mailbox
  • 50 Mb per attachment
  • Unlimited aliases and distribution lists
  • Advanced features, like backups, mailbox rules and antivirus protection
  • Volume discount for 5+ mailboxes

The Legal Stuff

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