{"id":8283,"date":"2022-11-15T12:30:45","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T12:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/truehost.com\/support\/?p=8283"},"modified":"2024-06-07T12:38:17","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T12:38:17","slug":"why-a-mail-server-is-better-than-shared-hosting-emails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.truehost.com\/support\/why-a-mail-server-is-better-than-shared-hosting-emails\/","title":{"rendered":"Why a Mail Server is better than shared hosting emails"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Why go for Mail Server than Shared hosting Mail?<\/strong><br>Email hosting is a service that runs email servers and provides email service for individuals and<br>businesses that allows you to send, receive, and store emails on a server provided by a company<br>while Email shared hosting is a hosting in which you share resources with other websites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Mail server hosting is<\/strong> <strong>scalable<\/strong> and can grow with your site while in shared hosting your<br>website gets to use very limited resources on shared hosting. So, if you try to add some<br>resource-intensive functionality to your website<\/li><li> In mail server hosting you can<strong> increase the security of your inbox <\/strong>while shared hosting is<br>vulnerable to security issues i.e. If any website on a server gets hacked, then other<br>websites also come under potential threat.<\/li><li><strong>Uptime guarantee-<\/strong> Another benefit of using mail server hosting is that you are likely to <strong>have a guarantee when it comes to uptime<\/strong> whereas in share hosting mail reliability is not guaranteed to lead to downtime<br>sometimes.<\/li><li><strong>In mail server hosting, users have unlimited privileges to install software of their own choice<\/strong><br>whereas in shared hosting there are limitations on what you can install. If you need to install<br>anything outside that list, you might be out of luck.<\/li><li><strong>Mail server hosting allows you to easily manage multiple addresses<\/strong>. For instance, you could have<br>accounted for marketing, support requests, and general contacts. This way, consumers can get in<br>touch with the right member of your team, unlike shared hosting which has poor support this<br>sheer lack of good support is a big disadvantage of shared hosting.<\/li><li><strong>Mail server hosting has root access<\/strong> unlike shared hosting which requires one to request the hosting<br>company but most shared hosting companies do not provide that<\/li><li>Since an email based on a shared web hosting plan shares a server with a lot more<br>websites, its speed may be affected by the traffic and resources used by all websites in that network. Their server response time may be slowed down by a variety of other issues<br>which contrary to email hosting which has no speed restrictions.<\/li><li><strong>In mail server hosting, no migration is required<\/strong> while on shared hosting, email hosting migration is<br>necessary. This task may come with many technical challenges which when you think<br>about it, could be avoided if there was a separation of your email hosting.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why go for Mail Server than Shared hosting Mail?Email hosting is a service that runs email servers and provides email service for individuals andbusinesses that allows you to send, receive, and store emails on a server provided by a companywhile Email shared hosting is a hosting in which you share resources with other websites. 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