Things You May Want To Consider When Deciding On Email Accounts You Need

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By Lara Church


When you are deciding on particular fully managed servers, you will need to inform your managed hosting service of how many email accounts you want on the managed server. There are several things to bear in mind when deciding how many accounts you will need.

You need to consider how many people will be using email on your uk managed hosting account. The number of email accounts on the managed server will have to be sufficient enough to meet the demand. The exact number will vary depending on if everyone who will be accessing their emails requires an individual account on the managed server or whether multiple users will be accessing one email account.

With most managed servers the host will allow you to create numerous email accounts. On your managed hosting server you can choose to utilise a mail client like Microsoft Outlook or a webmail provider. Different operating systems have different mail clients so if you have a favourite mail client, bear this in mind when choosing an operating system for your managed hosting service. You should be able to access pretty much any webmail provider on managed servers regardless of the operating systems they utilise. You can choose from a variety of webmail providers who will not charge you for setting up email accounts with them.

It is important to remember that the emails you send and receive are counted as part of your managed hosting disk space quota. Webmail providers provide a set amount of disk space for accounts so you wouldn't need to worry about emails using up managed server disk space. A great benefit of webmail is that emails can be checked from any computer provided there is internet access and a web browser, whereas with a mail client you are restricted to using the computer it is installed on. A disadvantage of webmail is that the webmail provider has complete control of your emails, only allowing you access to them as opposed to you having them and this access can be denied at the discretion of the webmail provider.

You are required to be online to compose, edit or just generally access your emails in a webmail account, whereas a mail provider does not have this restriction. There are also potential security issues as webmail providers store private information which may or may not be accessed by others.

In summary there are several key aspects to consider in relation to the number of email accounts in your managed hosting service. The users on the managed server may only need one account each or they may need several per person. Also remember that emails via a mail client use up part of the allocated disk space of managed servers. In order to conserve disk space you can utilise webmail instead which has disk space allocated to it by the provider and which can be easily accessed from any computer that is connected to the internet. The drawbacks of webmail however include controlled access by the provider and the necessity of being online to access, edit and compose emails.

By utilising a mail client over webmail on your managed hosting server, you have the freedom to compose and access stored emails offline and they are not under the control of a webmail service provider.




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