Email Hosting | |
Whether you are looking for email hosting services for a small business, corporate office, or a large enterprise, Apps4Rent has the best business email hosting for you at a competitive price. For the price conscious buyer, our business email hosting plans with POP3/IMAP include essential email features for less than 50 cents/mailbox. At the other end of the spectrum, Apps4Rent's hosted Exchange email starting at $6.95/mailbox includes numerous high-end features for mobility, collaboration, automation, and integration with Microsoft business software. |
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For those looking for Exchange-like functionality at a lower price point, Apps4Rent offers MobileSyncEmail for only $1.95/mailbox. | |
| Business Email Hosting Plans Comparison | ||||||
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Business Email Hosting - What's included?- |
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Storage Space Each hosted mailbox is allocated storage space on the mail server according to the business email hosting plan selected. |
1 GB | 5 GB | Unlimited | |||
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Attachment Size Apps4Rent allows larger attachment sizes compared to other business email hosting providers. |
50 MB | 50 MB | 150 MB | |||
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Free SharePoint SharePoint offers advanced file sharing and collaboration features. |
No | No | Yes | |||
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Free Exchange ActiveSync Valuable Exchange ActivSync license is included in advanced hosted business email plans. |
Not Available | Yes | Yes | |||
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Backup of hosted email Daily backups ensure that your recent data is safe and recoverable. |
Daily | Daily | Daily | |||
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Mobile Access or Sync Exchange Activesync is an industry leading synchronization technology licenced by Microsoft to major technology companies such as Google, Apple, and Nokia among others. |
Mobile Access | Exchange ActiveSync | Exchange ActiveSync |
Anti-Spam An advanced Anti-Spam screener rejects suspected spam emails. |
Advanced | Advanced | Advanced |
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Anti-Virus A built in virus scanner keeps incoming and outgoing messages virus free. |
Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
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24 x 7 x 365 Support Worldclass support - Apps4Rent is Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and an experienced business email provider. |
Phone, Email, Chat | Phone, Email, Chat | Phone, Email, Chat | |||
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Consolidate other accounts such as Yahoo, Gmail MobileSyncMail allows other email accounts to be pulled into its Webmail interface. |
No | Yes | Yes | |||
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Web Based Control Panel Web based account administration for users and mail administrators. |
Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
Price and Payment Terms for Business Email Hosting- |
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Price per Mailbox - |
<$0.50/mailbox | $1.95/mailbox | $6.95/mailbox | |||
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Storage Space - |
1 GB | 5 GB | Unlimited | |||
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Setup Fee - |
None | None | None | |||
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30 Money Back Guarantee - |
Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
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Month to Month Billing - |
Yes - Minimum 20 mailboxes | Yes - Minimum 3 mailboxes | Yes - Minimum 1 mailbox | |||
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Email Hosting Annual Billing - |
10% Discount - Minimum 20 mailboxes | 10% Discount - Minimum 1 mailbox | 10% Discount - Minimum 1 mailbox | |||
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Credit Cards Accepted - |
Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
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Visa - |
Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
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MasterCard - |
Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
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American Express - |
Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
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Discover - |
Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
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PayPal - |
No | No | No | |||
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Google Checkout - |
No | No | No | |||
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Wire Transfer - |
Only over $1500 | Only over $1500 | Only over $1500 | |||
Support for Business Email Hosting |
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24 x 7 x 365 Support - |
Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
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Phone Support - |
Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
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Email/Ticket Support - |
Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
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Chat Support - |
Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
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Remote Control Option Our techs are able to access your desktop and troubleshoot by using a special application that you install. |
Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
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Web-based Knowledge Base for Hosted Business Email - |
Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
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Blog We maintain a blog that includes content on business email hosting. |
Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
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Migration Assistance We will assist you in moving from your currenting business email hosting provider over to Apps4Rent. |
Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
Domains and Business Email Hosting |
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Use Existing Domain You can use your domain name; to host your mail services with us whereas your other services for the domain name will continue to run from the current location/provider. |
Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
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Use Apps4Rent Subdomain - |
Yes - Free | Yes - Free | Yes - Free | |||
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Register Domain through Apps4Rent A new domain for business email hosting can be registered through us for Hosted Exchange. |
Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
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Split Domain If you have emails hosted on a POP/IMAP server and you also want some employees on Exchange. This can be achieved through split domain. |
Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
About Apps4Rent's Infrastructure- |
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SAS Certified Data Centers Our business email servers are situated in SAS 70 certified data centers with great connectivity to primary internet backbone. |
Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
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Multiple Data Centers for Redundancy Our key hosted email servers are replicated in multiple data centers. |
Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
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Reliability Cluster configuration improves reliabilty. |
99.9% | 99.9% | 99.99% | |||
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24 x 7 Monitoring and System Administration Experienced business email hosting System Administrators are available 24/7. |
Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
Desktop Mail Clients Supported- |
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Outlook 2013, 2010, 2007 Microsoft Outlook is the most commonly used desktop mail client software for accessing business email. |
Yes | Yes | Outlook 2007 or higher | |||
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Thunderbird Thunderbird is an open source email software distributed by Mozilla organization for accessing business email. |
Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
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Apple Mail Apple Mail is the built-in email software on Apple Mac computers for accessing business email. |
Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
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Entourage Microsoft Entourage is an Outlook version that works on Apple Mac for accessing business email.. |
Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
Mail Protocols Supported- |
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POP3 You can fetch/download your business e-mails by using mail clients like Outlook/Outlook Express/Thunderbird/Entourage and other such mail clients. |
Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
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IMAP Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) is a protocal supposted by advanced business email providers. |
Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
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SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is an Internet standard for electronic mail (e-mail) transmission across Internet Protocol (IP) networks. |
Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
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MAPI Support for Messaging Application Programming Interface (MAPI). |
No | No | Yes | |||
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SyncML |
Not Available | Yes | No | |||
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WebDav - |
Not Available | Yes | Yes | |||
WebMail Access for Business Email- |
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WebMail Software - |
Horde/Roundcube/SquirrelMail | SmarterMail | Outlook Web App | |||
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Internet Explorer - |
Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
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Safari - |
Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
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Mozilla Firefox - |
Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
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Google Chrome - |
Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
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Syncs with Desktop Mail Clients - |
POP3/IMAP | Yes | Yes | |||
Mobile Synchronization- |
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Exchange ActiveSync - |
No | Yes | Yes | |||
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iPhone - |
Access | Mobile Sync/Push Technology | Mobile Sync/Push Technology | |||
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Windows Mobile - |
Access | Mobile Sync/Push Technology | Mobile Sync/Push Technology | |||
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Android - |
Access | Mobile Sync/Push Technology | Mobile Sync/Push Technology | |||
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BlackBerry - |
Access | Full Sync (Extra Cost) | Full Sync (Extra Cost) | |||
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Nokia Symbian Phones - |
Access | Mobile Sync/Push Technology | Mobile Sync/Push Technology | |||
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Sync Email - |
Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
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Sync Contacts - |
No | Yes | Yes | |||
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Sync Calendar - |
No | Yes | Yes | |||
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Sync Tasks - |
No | Yes | Yes | |||
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Sync Notes - |
No | Yes | Yes | |||
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Can synchronize using SyncML protocol - |
No | Yes | No | |||
Collaboration Features- |
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Shared Folders Shared folder are used in emailing services, so that the same folder is accessible by more than one user. We also make extensive use of shared folders for contacts and mail. |
No | Yes | Yes | |||
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Shared Contacts Shared contacts are contacts which are accessible by more than one mailbox. Contacts can be shared directly or they can be added to public folder. |
No | Yes | Yes | |||
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Shared Calendar Shared calendar is shared among different users. |
No | Yes | Yes | |||
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SharePoint Sharepoint is a strong data collaboration application. People can easily connect and collaborate through an intranet, extranet, or through the web. |
No | No | Yes | |||
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Public Folders The Public folder is a convenient way to share information with others. Users can share, contact, files, calendars, etc. Public Folder is not available in Hosted Exchange 2013. However, with Dedciated Exchange Server this feature is available. |
No | No | Free SharePoint | |||
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Distribution Lists Distribution list is a term sometimes used for a function of email clients where lists of email addresses are used to email everyone on the list at once. |
Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
Automation Features for Business Email- |
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Alias An e-mail alias is simply a forwarding e-mail address, n number of aliases can be added to a primary email address. Alias share the same mailbox space with the primary email address. |
Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
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AutoReply AutoReply sends a pre-written responses to your incoming business e-mail automatically. |
Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
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AutoSetup The Auto-Setup Tool will automatically configure your hosted business email software. It can set up a new email account or adjust the configuration settings for an existing business email account. |
Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
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AutoComplete AutoComplete is a feature of Outlook and other mail clients in which the user is provided with the options of email addresses he has previously used. The AutoComplete feature gives suggestions for possible matches as a user types in. This feature can be enabled or disabled only by the user. |
Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
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Flagging A visual reminder for important business e-mails. You can flag an e-mail with various colors so that they are easily visible and can be searched easily. You can have different Flag colors for different types of e-mail so as to categorize them. |
Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
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Message Notification This feature allows you to get a notification when a new e-mail comes in. This can be activated from within your mail client. |
Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
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Link Email to Task This feature allows you to create a task out of e-mail. |
Outlook | Yes | Yes | |||
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Catch Alls Catch All is a default email box where mails for e-mail addresss which do not exsist for your domain gets delivered. |
Yes | Yes | No | |||
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Mail Rules This feature allows you to define rules in order to sort, filter, or redirect mail when received |
Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
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Forwarding Email forwarding generically refers to the operation of re-sending an email message delivered to one email address on to a different email address. |
Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
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Search Folders Search Folders are virtual folders that contain views of all e-mail items matching specific search criteria. |
Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
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Click-to-Map This touch-and-go feature creates clickable links from phone numbers, street addresses and email addresses that appear in messages, contacts, calendars, tasks and notes to show the location. |
No | No | Yes | |||
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Click-to-Mail This touch-and-go feature gives you option for email addresses that appear in messages, contacts and so on. For example hovering over an email address will give users the option to add/edit or email the contact. |
Yes | Yes | Yes | |||