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Whats the solution for your non-functioning Email Hosting?

admin — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:31:00 +0000

Many a times it so happens that you find your email hosting account not working when you actually need it. You may be expecting an important business email where the deal needs to be closed at the earliest. The sender might receive the message of bouncing back e-mail.

Its kind of frustrating, isn’t it? What can be done to overcome this problem?

Basically there might be many reasons for this malfunction.
The Email hosting comprise of three basic components:

Domain Registry Records
DNS Hosting
Email Hosting

Domain Registry Records

You should first of all check the domain registration. There are number of free web tools that can help you with this. You can check your domain records by using WHO Is services alike who.is, whois.net etc. This would provide you various information regarding your domain. Though if you have chosen to hide the details of your domain the you cannot view this information. In that case you should contact your domain registrar. Check if your domain hasn’t expired. Incase it is, then make sure you renew it as soon as possible.
What happens is, the SMTP servers try to deliver the emails for a period of forty eight hours, so if you want the important emails to reach you, its important to renew the domain immediately. By doing so, you’ve got a fair chance that the emails would reach your Inbox before it goes to the black hole.

DNS Hosting

Considering that your domain isn’t expired, but still there is a problem with the Email Hosting. Then there might be an issue with the DNS Hosting.

The Domain Name Servers play a vital role in the email delivery. The DNS contains the MX records, which is sent to the email senders server (Mail server). You can execute a DNS query to the DNS server for checking the MX records.

There are various online tools for nslookup. If you have a windows system, you can use the “nslookup” in its command prompt, whereas if you have a Linux system use “dig” to check the name servers. If the server does not return the MX Records, the try for “SOA” on the server for your domain. Incase you do not find any “SOA” records which clearly means that the server isn’t holding the dns records for your domain. Also, it may be a manual error caused by your web hosting provider. You domain name might accidentally get removed from the billing system. In such a case contact your web host asap. If this is the issue, then your problem can get resolved in no time.

Email Hosting

If your DNS records are correct and are pointing to the correct name servers and returning MX records, you need to check with the Email Hosting. It may so happen that the server isn’t accepting emails hence all the emails are being bounced back. Then you need to contact your Email Hosting provider. Usually, they might be aware of the problem and would be working on it , if someone else who is hosted on the same server has reported it. They would firstly check if your email account exists on the server.

Some prefer to temporarily redirect emails to any of your other email accounts such as Hotmail, Google Mail etc. There are various email forwarding services that offer such services for free. You simply need to sign-up with them, add your domain and set email forwarding for all your incoming emails. Then hit a query for the DNS server of that provider for MX records of your domain and set MX records of the existing DNS hosting.

Once the Email hosting provider checks and resolves the issue, you can change the setting back to the original one’s. This way you would be able to use your old email hosting service as normal.

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Importance of Email Hosting.

admin — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:36:06 +0000

Today, there is some or the other technological advancement seen with each changing day. Similarly, there has been a huge change in the modes of communication in the modern days.We are always on an hunt for newer and faster modes of communication.

Certainly, Emails are the latest and the most modern modes of communication.This is a mode on which we rely on the most. It is affordable, faster and reliable. Most of the business as well as personal communications take place with Emails. Rather, emails have become an integral part of everyone’s life these days. Also, emails prove to be a dependable and most preferred modes of business communication.

Due to there wide usage of this type of electronic communication, many new providers have emerged inorder to provide better and enhanced email services.Today many internet businesses have Emails as their foot-stone hence no one other than them can explain the importance of Emails. Similarly, almost all the hosts offer Email Hosting services to customers.

Anybody today can start their own online business. But for that, it is important for you to make yourself aware of certain factors related to it. There are actually lot of things that should be considered while debuting this business. With the availability of Email hosting services, things have become pretty simple. One can start with your own online business by leasing an email server. You can offer email hosting services to users. Email hosting can be described as another stream of Internet hosting which deals with the operation of Email servers.

There are many addition services that can be offered alongwith normal email hosting. Usually, email hosting packages are subscribed by businesses. You can have your customized email address by signing up for such a package. You are not required to order any web hosting package for this, neither do you need to have an eCommerce website. The only thing that needs to be done is to make necessary settings to your home computer so that it can send and receive the emails to and from your computer. By ordering an E-mail Hosting package from an Affordable Web Hosting provider, you have the privilege to manage your corporate emails conveniently.

Now, the most important aspect for this is, choosing an appropriate, reliable affordable web hosting service provider. What one can do is, jot down the requirements and shortlist few of the service providers. Now, the most critical part is the evaluation of these shortlisted Email hosting companies.Let each of them know your requirements, usually you will be offered the most appropriate solution that is most suitable for your requirements. Once you’ve chosen a company, you would soon realize the difference that they have made to your online existence. Now, you are no longer required to spend time on managing your emails, instead you can concentrate on the other aspects of your business.

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Free Vs Paid Email Hosting

admin — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:18:42 +0000

In web world you will find 2 types of email hosting. One is Free Email Hosting services and second one is Paid Email Hosting. You can choose any one of them but before considering any email hosting services it is very necessary to check your requirements. You should check the services both types of Email hosting providers are offering.

You can consider Free Email Hosting, if one simply want to use it for personal email communication and just for being a member in various social networking sites. If you won’t require it for your business communication then there is no need not spend a lot. However, it will be a different thing if you will be using an email for business purposes. Ir-respect to how money-saving free Email Hosting is, your business will still definitely benefit from paid Email Hosting services. One of the major advantage that a paid Email Hosting can give you is a thorough security. As they are charging you some amount for their services, you will be sure that part of that amount will be allotted in enhancing your email’s security. Once you consider a Paid Email Hosting package you can remain hassle free means you need not to worry about viruses that would possibly infect your server and have an enhanced anti-spam features. The next advantage of Paid Email Hosting is it provides the bigger allotment of disk space for mails so that you can be sure to never miss any important mail. With such, you can also be sure that you will also have some extra copies of the most important mails that you will be receiving from your clients of business partners. Paid Email Hosting services also keeps you away from all the unnecessary advertisements that keep on popping up when you work in your email accounts. You can also be assured that your email page would load up faster if you would have the paid service. And last thing but not the least, you will get a more professional look and impact since you can personalize your business mail accounts by applying your business name in the email address itself. Surely, your potential clients would see you are more believable and would leave them an amazing impression that you are not a scammer. By searching online, you will find ‘n’ numbers of paid email hosting providers but if you are looking for Affordable Web Hosting then Eukhost is the best hosting company to go with. This is worth the investment especially if the success of your business would greatly rely on this.

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Affordable Web Hosting:Plesk Features

admin — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:01:23 +0000

Plesk is the most popular and widely used control panel for Windows Hosting or Linux Affordable web hosting plans.

Plesk offer you many features and functionality as compare to other control panels which had made it most best web hosting control panel .
*) You get number of professional looking skins for your Plesk control panel from which you can select which you like.

*) It’s very easy to learn as it’s interface is very easy to understand and is based on logical reasoning.

*) You can easily implement many advanced applications/features for your account just by few clicks of mouse.

*) Plesk is much reliable giving you much piece of mind so that you can concentrate on your business more.

*) Plesk is most secure and it keeps you away from threats and vulnerabilities, it is most stable and secure control panel.

*) Plesk effectively utilizes all your systems resourses giving you best performance.

*) Plesk has built-in features which handles all errors very intelligently and trouble-shoot then thus ensuring you a more reliable control panel.

*) Plesk can be customized with your local language so that you can efficiently work on it. Using Plesk language pack you can install Plesk with your preferred language. Most languages are supported with Plesk. eg : Chinese, French, Italian, Japanese, Spanish etc… This will help you to display messages, context help and other file in your preferred language which can be changed anytime.

If you are looking for a reliable and affordable web hosting or email hosting Plans then you should go with Eukhost.

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Hosting levels in Plesk Control panel

admin — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:25:36 +0000

Plesk is the most popular and comprehensive control panel which is widely used on windows hosting platform. You have different levels of logins under plesk control panel using which you can manage your shared, virtual and dedicated or small Business hosting account very effectively. Plesk is designed in such a way that will help you to manage and administer your website easily. Using plesk as control panel you can save lot of time for managing your website hosting accounts, you have many automated features using which service provider can reduce operating cost and resources thus increasing profit margin and customer satisfaction. Plesk offers you 4 different login levels viz Administrator, Client/Reseller, Domain Owner and Mail User. Each level have it’s own importance, role and responsibilities. Administrator level being the most highest level.

*) Administrator Level : – it’s the highest individual server level login usign which you as a website hosting account administrator to create and manage all system features. Using master level login of Plesk you can centrally manage multiple web hosting or Email hosting very effectively.

*) Client/Reseller Level :– It’s Second tier login account under which users can create domains and can manage them. System Administrator provides you all necessary rights which are required for creating and managing domains. you can easily administrator multiple domains using a single login under Client/reseller Level access of Plesk control panel.

*) Domain Owner Level :– It’s third tier of plesk controller. It’s an individual domain owner account with all predetermined permissions and interface which are given by system administrator. This type of control panel is mostly provided with Affordable hosting accounts.

*) Mail User :– Last but not the least Plesk login level specifically for managing individual Email hosting account. it’s fourth tire individual mail account using which user can log into their mail account and can manage and set passwords, spam filters and anti-virus for their mail account. Mail User level of plesk login can be consider as most basic type of plesk login.

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Email Hosting-Mailing list using Plesk

admin — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:37:26 +0000

E-mails are one of the most powerful feature we had in internet world, today emails have become a integral part of our daily routine. Today the number of emails send are much more then phone calls made around the world, thus you can see the importance of email hosting. Thus for making most out of emails we have a feature called Mailing list. It’s a list made up of subscribers who have preferred emails as the medium of communication. You can consider joining a ‘mailing list’ is a way of saying “Keep me informed”;
Usually emails are considered as one to one communication activity but in mailing list you get in touch with hundred/thousands of people at a given point of time. Mailing list encourage us a greater and more varied amount of email activity as bothway communication to a full interactive open to public communication. You can restrict the list for private circles also. Usually emails are used for circulating announcements, newsletters and advertisements. You can classified mailing list in 2 different categories ‘ One-Way and ‘Two-Way’ mailing lists. In one-way mailing list either accepts or sends information, the user only interacting with the list server; and a two-way list creates interaction between sender and receiver. One-way incoming mailing lists are still used for sending announcements, newsletter etc. E-mail Spam is another example of a one-way outgoing mailing list. Using two way mailing list users can interact with other subscribers to that mailing list. Its based on subscribers and all users involved in it are requested for signing up for this service. Such list subscription can be open or public. If its open/public then anyone can subscribe to it and if its private then restricted or known authorities can subscribe to it. Almost all affordable web hosting service provider do support mailing list.

If you are worried about your business email accounts then Eukhost is the best option who keeps you hassle free. Eukhost provides managed Email Hosting accounts.

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How to setup an Email Account in Plesk control panel

admin — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:31:11 +0000

You can use Plesk to set up POP3 email hosting accounts for your domains just login to your Plesk as Admin and access domain administration page. You need to choose the domain for which you are looking for adding email accounts.

Please follow following steps for setting email accounts for your domains.
1. On the Domain admimstration page click on Mail Icon.
2. Under tools section proceed with clicking Add New Mail Name.
3. Set a proper name for this new email account.
4. You will need to enter new password for this new email account and you will need to confirm it.
5. If you wish to allow this mail user to access control panel then you will have to select check box ” Control panel access ”
6. Now check box for mailbox, you can also specify mailbox quota if you want to assign it.
7. Finally submit these setting by clicking OK.

You can customize your email hosting account any time using your Plesk control panel.

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Affordable Webspace Hosting

admin — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 10:00:24 +0000

Once you are ready with your website development you would need a reliable and affordable web hosting service provider who will host your website on their server so that your website can be accessible worldwide. You have two options , free webhosting and paid hosting, its always recommended to go with a paid hosting services if your hosting a large or Small Business web hosting website, as paid hosting will ensure you maximum uptime and better server resources as compare to free hosting. Once you decided for your webhosting service provider you need to look for what diskspace and bandwidth do they provide you. Webspace and bandwidth are most important features which are to be looked before paying to any webhost. You should have enough webspace and bandwidth at your disposal so that your website and email hosting could run smoothly. You should have enough diskspace so that you can upload all your webfiles, databases, graphics and multimedia files on your allotted webspace. Webhosting webspace is sometime referred as “ Diskspace”
You can consider web space as storage space which is assigned to your webhosting accounts its total amount of storage which you can use to store all data files, email accounts and other webfiles. You have different webspace slots which all depends on hosting plan you choose and may varies from webhost to webhost. To access your webspace your webhosting service provider will offer you some kind of control panel [ cPanel/Plesk] using which you can manage your hosting account, you can upload data/webfiles using your control panel or through using Client FTP program and can access your webhosting space.

If you choose some shared hosting package you may get less diskspace as compare to other higher hosting packages such as VPS, dedicated servers.
You can also use allotted webspace as backup webspace if you have opt for higher hosting plan in which you will have sufficient diskspace, if you are having dedicated server with RAID configured diskdrive you can use this space as a backup space and can keep or take backups of al your webdata. You can access your webspace from any location provided you have all login details for your server/hosting account thus you can upload data anytime and from any part of world.

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Change Login lock time in Plesk

admin — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 18:29:59 +0000

By following the below steps you can simply change the login lock time in Plesk control panel:-

*) Open your browser and log in to your email hosting Plesk control panel as Admin

https://[IP-address]:8443

*) CLick on server from menu on left side.
*) Click on Login Settings under control panel section.
*)You can enter new login lock time in textbox for Session idle time or Invalid Login Lock time.
*) Click OK and that’s all.

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