Hi folks,

I need an email host. Web hosting as well, but the email is more important at the moment. I've used Network Solutions, Go Daddy, MyDomain, etc. I'm just wondering if there are any new providers people like.

Thanks.

Firstly, register a domain name. Anything you publish to the world (your e-mail address, you web site) will be "under" that domain name. Unfortunately, sigalert.{com,net,org} all look like they are already registered, but be creative, there are now many of top-level domains, and the squatters can't afford to cover them all. For example, sigalert.me appears to be available.

Is this for a personal e-mail account, or are you looking for a corporate/company server with multiple identities under a single domain?

If the former, I have been very happy with ProtonMail, there are plenty of others. Your web hosting does not have to be from the same provider as your e-mail hosting.

If the latter, I'd suggest setting up your own server machine, either with on-site hardware, or a virtual "cloud" host ala AWS, OpenStack, etc. If you don't have an on-site facility, or don't want to inves in the connection bandwidth, many co-location providers are happy to house your hardware. By controlling your own hardware (or virtual) you can add function whenever and however you like.

The providers of e-mail account services such as Google, MS365, etc. all start to get relatively expensive when the multiples of $ per user per month start increasing.

In IT for a number of years so have good experience with multiple hosts over the years for general websites - as well as hosted internally for work - finally settled on Hostgator for the last few years for our work websites as well as a couple of personal ones. We use WordPress for the sites and Hostgator is pretty great with their use of it. They also have ecommerce options etc - it would really depend more on what exactly the hosted website needs to truly determine the right host

Also for email - Hostgator does host email as does most webhosts - but if you need a feature rich version and not just POP or IMAP based email - I recommend you consider email through Microsoft Office 365

What I use for my IT clients is:

Network Solutions - Registrar (Domain Name)
ZoneEdit - DNS Hosting
MX GuardDog - Spam Filter
WIX - Simple Web sites
Email - MS O365
NOIP or DynDNS - Dynamic DNS
MXToolbox - IT email troubleshooting

You can get most all of these under one roof now.
I like to have control and it is better for me to have diversified membership by using different companies.
I would advise AGAINST Go Daddy for their kommie anti-2A policies but they are popular.

I use IONOS to rent my domain "LMNOP.ICU"

I think it was $4 to get the name and $2 a month for the email service. They have a browser email client and I've configured AOL, GMAIL, and Outlook to send and receive emails.

They host websites but I've not needed it.

If you have used or like Gmail, they do email hosting. I've been pleased with them for my small business.

I’m happy with InMotion Hosting. Exemplary customer service. If they offered Python on the tier I have they’d be perfect.

For domain registrar I am on Epik.com. Unfortunately they were recently hacked by the leftist group anonymous but they did the right thing by admitting the problem right away and gave everyone Experian identity monitoring.

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Originally posted by mark123:
I’m happy with InMotion Hosting. Exemplary customer service.

I am also an InMotion customer. What Mark says about customer service is 100% correct.

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Originally posted by henryaz:

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Originally posted by mark123:
I’m happy with InMotion Hosting. Exemplary customer service.

I am also an InMotion customer. What Mark says about customer service is 100% correct.

Ah, yes, henryaz turned me on to inmotion. The host I had before had been sold to a huge conglomerate and their CS went overseas. They just stopped helping when things went bad. They stopped caring so I went to inmotion.

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Originally posted by mark123:
Ah, yes, henryaz turned me on to inmotion. The host I had before had been sold to a huge conglomerate and their CS went overseas. They just stopped helping when things went bad. They stopped caring so I went to inmotion.

All of my pix are hosted there, but historically served via http. When we had the http/https issue here with displaying pix, I called them up, and within 10 minutes (while I was still on the phone, testing), they had set me up with a free certificate, and dropped .htaccess files into the root of my 4 web sites. In one case, they edited/added on to an existing .htaccess file I already had in place. All requests to my pix coming in as http (as they would be for years of pix I have posted here) are now converted to https requests, and all of my old links work. Excellent customer service.

I have a Gmail business account and it is something like $6.00 a month....had it probably 10-12 years and has not been down 1 time that I can remember and run my business through it

I switched from pop3 to IMAP about 10 years ago and took a bit to get used to but it really helps me keep track of emails from different devices better.

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Originally posted by SummersAtTheLake:
I have a Gmail business account and it is something like $6.00 a month....had it probably 10-12 years and has not been down 1 time that I can remember and run my business through it

I switched from pop3 to IMAP about 10 years ago and took a bit to get used to but it really helps me keep track of emails from different devices better.

When having issues with my previous host, I did switch to gmail business for $6/month. Unfortunately, my emails began getting marked as spam so I went to InMotion so that I could be in control of it myself.