Why Keep hosting and email Separate?
These days it is quite common for hosting companies to include free mail boxes when you sign up for website hosting.
While this may seem to be a win, it may not be the best option to use for website email. Read on to find out why you should keep hosting and email separate.
There are more than a few reasons why.
- Website hosting is for websites, not email. support provided for email is secondary. Hosts throw in email because it’s a cheap enticement.
- Hosting your email on your website host, uses up space in your hosting database.
- Hosting email software is lacking. If you’re used to something like Gmail or even yahoo mail, you will be very sadly disappointed.
- Website hosting is not 100% reliable. Fairly reliable, but not 100%. Email is critical to stay in contact with followers and customers. If your website goes down, you still need to be able to contact everyone to let them know you will be up and running again soon. This is something to keep in mind. Don’t lose your followers through losing contact.
- Integration with other services is often lacking and you need to custom design it.
- Website hosting for email locks you in. If you find a better deal for hosting. Migrating a website is simple. Migrating email can be tricky. Better if your email was stand alone. (this is also true for buying your Domain name)
How do we keep hosting and email separate in real life?
So firstly understand that your WordPress installation can is perfectly capable to handle this with the necessary plugins.