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 Email Hosting Services
Free email hosting services have quite a few limitations. While free services do offer a fair amount of disk space--especially compared to a small business's server capacity--there are a number of reasons that a free service should not be used. Free email services are sufficient for most individuals; a business needs to use a business-oriented outsourced email service.
Does it make sense for a business to use a free email account with a generic domain name? Plainly, it looks unprofessional. Even if the free account can handle your level of incoming and outgoing traffic, your business will not be taken as seriously as it would with a unique domain name. In addition, free email services are not nearly as adept at filtering out spam, viruses, and spyware as a dedicated email hosting service.
Another major reason to use an email hosting service is both the size of one's inbox and the size of outgoing mail. Free services cannot handle very large emails. As technology grows, it is becoming more common for emails to include pictures, graphs, audio, and even video, especially in the business world. Many free email services cannot handle this kind of load--either incoming or outgoing.
An outsourced email hosting service, on the other hand, can provide adequate space for growing businesses, and can promise stability. However, not all email hosting services are created equal, and some have been known to suffer major outages. LoadMail avoids any sort of service interruption, as its servers are monitored 24 hours a day. At Load.com, for a low monthly fee, you get a number of services that aren't offered by free email services.
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