So I have researched about self hosting your own email server such as Mailcow but it seems pretty divided on whether or not you should do it due emails potentially not getting delivered due to spam filters and such. So I'm kinda not interested in self hosting so I'm wondering what is the next best option to get my own email ideally for free but maybe settle for really cheap?

Edit: I have my own domain already.

Edit2: Thank you all! I have my domain with Cloudflare so I have tried their email routing but would like to be able to send from it too. I'll check out some other suggestions.

Edit3: Wow this got a lot of replies. Again thanks all for the recommendations. I haven't had a chance to actually check any out yet (busy weekend) but I will get to it.

Edit4: So I've had a little time to look at some of the options and it looks like maybe Zoho, onepoundemail or PurelyMail. They are both fairly cheap and around the same price. Anyone know how they compare?

Edit5: I ended up paying for Zoho for $12/year. So far it's doing everything I wanted and more. Very happy with it! Thank you all!!!

I hope I am doing this right. I've never created a post before, only replied!

I recently bought an existing small business with a business website hosted by Wix, and our email host is iPage. I hate both of these hosting companies but the email is up for renewal. I kinda feel like I have been dropped in the deep end of the pool. I don't understand a lot of the terminology, so when replying, please act like I am a total idiot and explain the obvious!

Can anyone please recommend an email host that has great storage options and allows for spam identification? We mainly use email for new client submissions and a small amount of correspondence, but we don't send mass emails or anything like that. Because I have a "contact us" link on our website, I am inundated by spammers trying to get me to use their services to improve my search engine rankings, change my merchant service, and just about every other spammer/phisher ploy you can imagine. Ipage restricts submissions from Gmail accounts, which is very frustrating, and it doesn't allow me to block spammers. I need quite a bit of storage and the ability to have several different addresses all under my domain umbrella ([email protected], [email protected], my [email protected], [email protected], etc). I set up a yahoo account for my business just so that my customers can use that portal if they are unable to submit their paperwork through my recalcitrant iPage hosted address.

I am just completely lost and hope my fellow redditors are willing to educate me, since my Google searches have only served to confuse me more. Thank you guys in advance!