Email Hosting Providers Comparison
In terms of features, deliverability, spam, reliability, uptime, ease of use, administration, support, pricing and any other criteria you deem important or relevant, in a head-to-head comparison between the following Email hosting providers, as well as any other such providers (to the exclusion of Google and Microsoft) that I missed or you are aware of or experienced with that you wish to add to this comparative review, how would you rate the following providers, compared to the others here?
Please add your detailed comments explaining why and how you rated each provider. And which features or other aspects, in particular, you are rating and comparing to their competition that you like or dislike.
IceWarp Cloud
Zoho
Fastmail
MXRoute
PurelyMail
Migadu
Mango Mail
Polaris Mail
Zimbra
Amazon Workmail
[Add any other providers]
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i will not comment on this. not commenting is comment enough. @Mumbly
I still prefer the one I prefered before
I mean I understand your point, just that I see things differently (won't go into details).
@Mumbly
That's a good thing.
these days i have been testing infomaniak (technically more like posteo.de, with costs and a free version also possible with infomaniak) and migadu (technically more like mxroute, with costs).
What are the differences between Infomaniak/Posteo.de compared to Migadu/MXRoute?
In my opinion, Infomaniak/Posteo.de offer ready-made solutions that specialise in the usual tools (mail, calendar, etc.). Migadu/MXRoute are one level below. they provide infrastructure and tools and you set up your system yourself (own domain(s) are a prerequisite).
i use my own mailserver
it just works
youtube.com/watch?v=k1BneeJTDcU
Liar
more or less
youtube.com/watch?v=k1BneeJTDcU
Used Fastmail for years and never had an issue as of yet. Had an account with Purelymail for a while and looking at trying that out a bit more!
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fastmail is solid but also solid prices. i do not renew my subscription with fastmail.
I've used/tested a few of them in the past.
Fastmail had the best webmail, one feature it had that I've not seem elsewhere if you use a catch-all on webmail and possible the app didn't test it you could set the from address when composing the email to any address of the domain and replying would automatically set the from address to the correct address, on other provider you would need to add a alias, didn't have issues with it.
PurelyMail: used it for one of my less important domain to test it, everything worked fine no real issues, I won't use it for anything serious since it a one man operation.
Migadu: Did use it for a bit in the past , the service it self was fine didn't have any issues with spam filtering or deliverability, the message limits were too restrictive, the cheapest plan is 200 in 20 out most days I don't send any emails so could live with a 20 a day limit, 200 in is problematic if you got busy inbox or multiple domains, the next plan up $9 a month is more costly than other provider so not cost effective for my usage.
Zoho: I use this for a few of my domains, it's priced per user since it only me that uses the domains it €1.2 eur vat included a month for 10GB Inbox, had zero issues using Zoho, spam filtering is quite decent
Zoho seems to have the best pricing, if you're looking to go with a per mailbox pricing scheme. $1 per mailbox, per month.
The issue with most of the services that price by total storage (with unlimited mailboxes) is that for those that use a substantial amount of storage, the per mailbox pricing are generally going to cost much less, since they include a large amount of storage per mailbox.
In my unbiased opinion I rate OnePoundEmail to be 100/10. MXroute I would give 99.99/10.
Michael from DragonWebHost & OnePoundEmail
can you add mine: xyamail.com
thanks for sharing the list.
Does your service support having multiple users/mailboxes?
It also seems that you need an invitation code to sign up.
I have been using MXroute for almost 5 years now.
Deliverability is awesome. I have used it for transactional emails and never faced any problems.
Uptime is great . @jarland moved the server i was on a while back and i didn't even notice.
If you have used webhosting panels before you already know how to use mxroute... administration is simple.
Another provider worth considering is WeDos. 1.46€/month for 5GB of storage and an unlimited number of mailboxes.
https://www.wedos.com/email-hosting/
Another is CloudCone. $2.99/month for three domains, 30 mailboxes, and 10GB storage.
https://cloudcone.com/email/#pagetitle3
A roll of the dice is 1dohost, which is a new hosting provider. They are a 20i reseller. You can order their standard, basic, web hosting plan for $1/year (yes, per year), which includes an unlimited number of mailboxes with 10GB of storage per mailbox. (20i plans include an unlimited number of mailboxes with this amount of storage each.)
https://app.1dohost.com/order-hosting
I found this Indian provider F60Host, selling services including in the US, offering Google Workspace at $1.20/month or at $10/year. I'm wondering how they could be pricing Google at this low point and whether it is reliable. Is anyone familiar with them?
https://f60host.com/
They're also, somehow, advertising on ProductHunt an offer of Google Workspace for a one time $69 payment for lifetime service:
https://www.producthunt.com/products...space-lifetime
They seem to be a subsidiary of Fourty60 ( https://fourty60.com/ ), which claims to be partners with some large international firms in the industry.
Up up up from the dead
Considering moving away from PurelyMail (because 1-man-host, recent bugs, US-/AWS-hosted, etc.), what would be a feature-matching alternative (not aws, not us)? My use case: 1 user, 2 domains, some basic filtering/routing, dkim, catchall (+ ability to reply from any address at the domains), max 250 in / 25 out per month, less than 1GB stored. Costs me less than $5/yr, but willing to crank it up to 11 $10.
Unfortunately most sites listed in the OP lack features or are overpriced, or remain too vague in their product descriptions to be trusted.
Happy customer at AlexHost, AxusHost, Bakker-IT, Host-C, Ionos, Veesp + NanoKVM ftw.
For EU check inbox.org, but they are above your budget if you want a custom domain.
Yandex mail was free back in the days, can't tell about their current pricing.
★ 80–85% ↓↓ – NVMe(NL) from 1c EPYC/1G/30G/1T – $12/y (ref), codes: LETMINI80, LETSAILOR80 respectively ／ SSD(US) from 1c/2x256M/2x10G/256G – $5.4/y (ref), ×2 upg. via ticket, codes: SPECIALMINI85, LETSAILOR85, SEAMANSSD85
Would you mind telling what bugs? I thought to try it, just for fun, but if it's not worth it, I won't bother.
No drama, see their https://news.purelymail.com/ page for the recent issue(s).
& Some transient downtime of the webmail frontend, not sure why.
A new one-man-guy has taken over the one-man-company in 2025. According to the roadmap they've many things to improve/solve/implement...
Don't get me wrong, it's a nice features-packed service, especially at that price point ($0.30+/mth base price + pay what you use)
If you mean mailbox.org they're clearly overpriced (and I really don't need all the Suite & Whatnot bloat many of these 'email providers' invest in.) I used Yandex (with their free custom domain plan) in the past, but alas these days are now gone. Their new business plan is bloated and overpriced, while lacking some features of purelymail. The same with Infomaniak, btw. Tried Migadu too btw, but even their mini plan is too expensive and inflexible.
Happy customer at AlexHost, AxusHost, Bakker-IT, Host-C, Ionos, Veesp + NanoKVM ftw.
Might have meant inbox.eu ?
Thanks for the link.
Quite possible - I didn't look into EU mail providers for many years. That indeed might have been inbox.EU, but both have updated designs obviously, so hard to tell atm.
The one I recall was less fancy and had a navigation column at the left.
Another potential option is mailcheap.co, but they have moved the office to US, raised the prices, and I haven't seen any promos/discounts from them for a long while.
★ 80–85% ↓↓ – NVMe(NL) from 1c EPYC/1G/30G/1T – $12/y (ref), codes: LETMINI80, LETSAILOR80 respectively ／ SSD(US) from 1c/2x256M/2x10G/256G – $5.4/y (ref), ×2 upg. via ticket, codes: SPECIALMINI85, LETSAILOR85, SEAMANSSD85
Technicaly every webhosting package would do it, but i guess none wants a website with it.
I use Apple iCloud with custom domain, works great :-D
Amadex • Hosting Forums • root.hr
Gave Migadu a new try, they are now (close to) perfect. Will consider switching once my current email plan comes to an end (early next year)
Hopefully by then they will be running special offers to accommodate the masses of disgruntled non-US users of Murican services
Happy customer at AlexHost, AxusHost, Bakker-IT, Host-C, Ionos, Veesp + NanoKVM ftw.
200in 20out little low for sending. Not really likeing if that service grows fast and get hacked anytime in the future.
Can you live with only 20 emails out per day? (I would often exceed that.) And the larger plans are more expensive than for example MXroute …
Quotas are no problem (I never reach 100 in / 10 out in a month); the yearly pricing is (it's 4 x Purelymail). Call me LowEndCheapo
Happy customer at AlexHost, AxusHost, Bakker-IT, Host-C, Ionos, Veesp + NanoKVM ftw.