Hostinger email review | TechRadar

Hostinger is one of the best email hosting services on the market today, but that should come as little surprise because Hostinger also excels in terms of the other solutions it offers. In terms of relaibility, collaboration tools, security and more, this is a great choice for businesses.

The affordability of Hostinger’s email hosting also can’t be overlooked. If you’ve decided that your business is lacking the sense of professionalism that you only get by moving away from a generic Gmail or Outlook address, then you could do a lot worse that Hostinger. Make your brand instantly look more credible without crippling your IT budget by signing up for one of Hostinger’s email hosting plans.

Hostinger: Plans and pricing

Hostinger keeps things simple, offering just two business email hosting plans: Business Starter and Business Premium. Business Starter costs $0.99 per mailbox per month, based on a 48-month contract. Note, that if you renew this plan, the price does increase slightly to $1.59 per mailbox per month. While this is still pretty affordable, the lengthy contract terms may put some businesses off – even though they’ll still only be forking out $47.52 per mailbox for an email plan that will continue to function for four years.

The Business Premium plan, meanwhile, will cost users $2.99 per mailbox per month – again for a 48-month term subscription. This works out to be $143.52 over the course of the four years for each mailbox required. Again, there is a small price increase should you choose to renew after the four years are up, with fees going up to $3.99 per mailbox per month.

The prices offered here are very affordable. For instance, the Business Starter plan offered by Neo is more expensive at $1.75 per month for one user. However, it’s worth considering that the Hostinger prices quoted above are those offered at a discount by Hostinger. The website admits that this is 66% less than the Business Standard plan’s normal price and represents a 40% reduction for Business Premium. It’s good to keep this in mind when comparing Hostinger’s prices and those of other email hosting services.

Features

Whether you choose between the Business Starter or Business Premium plans has a significant impact on the features you’ll have at your disposal, but either way, Hostinger provides a good range of functionalities.

With Business Starter, you get 10GB of email cloud storage, access to 10 forwarding rules, 50 email aliases, and cloud-based infrastructure. Among the benefits for Business Premium subscribers is the way that Hostinger takes things up a notch. They’ll receive 50GB of storage, the ability to set up 50 aliases and create 50 forwarding rules.

In terms of the email management features provided, Hostinger customers also get autoresponse, email forwarding, and filter rules. This means the platform makes it easy to implement the kind of automation features that could result in your employees’ productivity levels increasing substantially.

You’ll also encounter an email hosting service that is intuitive and easy to setup with autoconfiguration for third-party mail clients, such as Apple Mail, Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird and others. Integration with the likes of Gmail is also straightforward.

As you might expect, given the prevalence of hybrid work, Hostinger’s email hosting works just as well on smartphones on as it does desktop computers, so you can access your email via your iOS or Android mobile devices.

Support

Hostinger’s support for its email hosting services is very reliable and includes 24/7 multilingual chat support and email assistance. There’s also a comprehensive knowledge base, complete with resources on some of Hostinger’s other services, like its website builder, file manager, database, and more.

Regarding its email hosting specifically, the knowledge base includes more than 100 articles, including around troubleshooting, migration, and anti-spam tips. This should mean that you hopefully won’t have to reach out to Hostinger directly for additional support – especially if the company meets its 99.9% uptime guarantee.

If you do need to reach out for email support, Hostinger promises to reply to your inquiry within one business day. However, in our experience, the company performed a lot better than that. We receive a response to our email configuration issue in just over 15 minutes – a very speedy response! So, although the lack of a telephone support option is somewhat unusually, the other support options more than make up for it.

Security

Hostinger’s email hosting offers some robust security, supporting DKIM, DMARC, and SPF protocols. You’ll also find built-in anti-spam and antivirus included within your email plan so there’s some solid protection for both your incoming and outbound email traffic.

Should anything nasty slip through and you find that you’re account is compromised or you’ve lost some important emails, Hostinger also comes with automated email backups for data loss prevention and disaster recovery. There’s also two-factor authentication and encryption.

In addition to the technical safeguards provided by Hostinger, there’s also a fairly detailed support page informing users of what they can do to secure their email account. This includes how to change your password, checking for unauthoruzed activity, scanning for malware, and other recommendations. These tips, combined with the approaches that Hostinger takes as standard, should keep your email account pretty well protected.

The competition

Hostinger’s email hosting stand out from many of its competitors because of its feature-rich nature, robust security and affordable pricing plans. For instance, it works out slightly cheaper than many other providers, such as Neo, although you’ll have to decide for yourself whether this means it is the best value for money based on your company needs.

Certainly, you won’t find many  other email hosting services that take security and support quote so seriously. The inclusion of various security measures, from encryption to multi-factor authentication should help It managers sleep a little easier. And, should anything go amiss, support is fast and reliable.

Hostinger: Final verdict

Hostinger’s email hosting is a great option for businesses that want an affordable, reliable plan. The fact that Hostinger offers various other service, such as shared hosting, VPS hosting, cloud hosting, and more is pretty appealing too and mankes this an excellent choice.