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Can I migrate my existing emails to hostinger email hosting service?
Yes, you can. Once you’ve purchased a plan and created an email account, you can use our easy-to-use Email Import tool to migrate emails from your previous provider in a few clicks. No need for any technical know-how on your end. You can check this article to learn how to migrate business email services to Hostinger.
How Is Email Hosting Different From Web Hosting?
Perhaps surprisingly, web hosting and email hosting operate somewhat similarly:
Web servers manage the data transfers between IP addresses and domain names on the basis of DNS routing standards, while email servers use the same information to manage email message communications.
Both services can implement encryption on data connections using an SSL certificate with the browser or desktop client application.
Like I mentioned earlier, email hosting is often included as a free component of web hosting plans.
Email-only hosting plans support single, multiple, or unlimited email addresses on an email server without any web server functionality.
On these plans, you’ll typically find limitations for bandwidth and storage for each email account or on the monthly totals for all email traffic.
| Web and Email Hosting | Email-Only Hosting | Microsoft Exchange | Microsoft Outlook | Google Workspace |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $1 – $5 per month | $2 – $4 per inbox per month | $4 – $12.50 per user per month | $9.99 – $12.99 per month | $7 – $22 per user per month |
Unlimited hosting plans with web server and email functionality range from $1 to $5 per month with budget hosts, while email-only hosting plans are available from $4 or less per inbox at some brands.
What Is Email Hosting?
Email hosting allows you to create and manage email addresses on a web server. It’s frequently included as a perk in web hosting plans.
Email hosting uses three main standards for sending, receiving, and storing message data:
- SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol): Directs how emails move from your server to the recipient’s server and email inbox.
- POP (Post Office Protocol): Allows email recipients to retrieve messages from an email server and download them to their local computer. Emails are then deleted from the server.
- IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol): Emails remain on the server and can be accessed by the recipient’s email client. As such, messages can be accessed from any device or location.
Email hosting providers offer public services based on a combination of these standards, depending on the configuration of their data centers.
An email host should also offer multiple options for encryption across message transfers, which may also require the use of an SSL certificate for the domain.
Here are some of the different ways you can get email hosting:
I don't understand how a provider like Hostinger has such a weird setup regarding their email subscription. When you buy a hosting plan, you are limited in space 1gb and the number of email accounts you can create for your business on the free plan.
Then you have to upgrade to higher email subscription if you want more space to use for a certain e-mail account. After upgrade you get one account 10GB on "Hostinger Business Starter", you cannot then have several accounts and use 10GB on them, but you have to pay extra for them as well. You can't also create new account on 1gb.
This absolutely crazy, who will pay for over 60 email accounts? What if there are several companies you are working on? You therefore have to pay for all their email accounts? What?
At Siteground you only had to buy a hosting plan from them, you can create as many email accounts as you want and have a maximum of 10gb on each account, you can also adjust if you want less on some accounts.
The only reason we moved to hostinger was because we wanted everything in one place, domain, etc. Now that we've run into this problem, I'm hesitant to maybe move everything back again. 99% of the providers on the market offer exactly what they have on siteground, do not understand how "Hostinger" has confused this for themselves, it is very embarrassing.
I now have 20 more customers that I was thinking of moving to Hostinger, but after seeing this, it won't be until they maybe sort out this absurd email subscription.
Has anyone here solved the problem we encountered? We also do not intend to use DNS change for email.