{"id":1497,"date":"2023-12-13T14:47:27","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T11:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailsafi.com\/blog\/?p=1497"},"modified":"2024-07-22T10:14:55","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T07:14:55","slug":"benefits-of-cloud-or-hosted-email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailsafi.com\/blog\/benefits-of-cloud-or-hosted-email\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Benefits of Cloud Email Hosting for Business"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For most businesses, email is one of the primary services supported by IT. Traditionally, managing email on on-premise servers and shared hosting platforms have been the default choice for most organizations. While it is possible to run your own internal email server, it is often not the best option for many reasons. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you haven\u2019t already read the reasons why, please see our article on the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mailsafi.com\/blog\/on-premise-email-server-challenges\/\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">Challenges of Running On-Premise (Self-hosted) Email Hosting<\/mark><\/a><\/strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">.<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These challenges can result in major descriptions in email delivery due to spam, blocking and\/or blacklisting by the recipient&#8217;s servers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the past decade, there has been an upsurge of organizations moving to cloud-based email &#8211; as it should be. Businesses can derive many benefits by ditching the on premise hosting and switching to cloud-based email services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-layout-1 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-vivid-cyan-blue-background-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mailsafi.com\/business-email-hosting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sign up for Cloud Email Hosting Today!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_49 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"ez-toc-toggle-icon-1\"><label for=\"item-69d40dc74ae73\" aria-label=\"Table of Content\"><span style=\"display: flex;align-items: center;width: 35px;height: 30px;justify-content: center;direction:ltr;\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/label><input  type=\"checkbox\" id=\"item-69d40dc74ae73\"><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/mailsafi.com\/blog\/benefits-of-cloud-or-hosted-email\/#Benefits_of_Cloud_Email_Hosting\" title=\"Benefits of Cloud Email Hosting\">Benefits of Cloud Email Hosting<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3'><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/mailsafi.com\/blog\/benefits-of-cloud-or-hosted-email\/#1_No_large_capital_outlay\" title=\"1. No large capital outlay\">1. No large capital outlay<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/mailsafi.com\/blog\/benefits-of-cloud-or-hosted-email\/#2_Improved_security\" title=\"2. Improved security\">2. Improved security<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/mailsafi.com\/blog\/benefits-of-cloud-or-hosted-email\/#3_Easy_to_scale\" title=\"3. Easy to scale\">3. Easy to scale<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/mailsafi.com\/blog\/benefits-of-cloud-or-hosted-email\/#4_Improved_up-time\" title=\"4. Improved up-time\">4. Improved up-time<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/mailsafi.com\/blog\/benefits-of-cloud-or-hosted-email\/#5_Simplified_administration\" title=\"5. Simplified administration\">5. Simplified administration<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/mailsafi.com\/blog\/benefits-of-cloud-or-hosted-email\/#6_Remote_access\" title=\"6. Remote access\">6. Remote access<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-8\" href=\"https:\/\/mailsafi.com\/blog\/benefits-of-cloud-or-hosted-email\/#7_Continuous_support\" title=\"7. Continuous support\">7. Continuous support<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-9\" href=\"https:\/\/mailsafi.com\/blog\/benefits-of-cloud-or-hosted-email\/#BONUS_Team_Collaboration_Tools\" title=\"BONUS! Team Collaboration Tools\">BONUS! Team Collaboration Tools<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-10\" href=\"https:\/\/mailsafi.com\/blog\/benefits-of-cloud-or-hosted-email\/#Conclusion\" title=\"Conclusion\">Conclusion<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-11\" href=\"https:\/\/mailsafi.com\/blog\/benefits-of-cloud-or-hosted-email\/#Are_You_Interested_in_Cloud_Email\" title=\"Are You Interested in Cloud Email?\">Are You Interested in Cloud Email?<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Benefits_of_Cloud_Email_Hosting\"><\/span><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">Benefits of Cloud Email Hosting<\/mark><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Now you probably know why you shouldn&#8217;t host your emails on-premise. Let us now discuss the benefits of the alternative, cloud-based email hosting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a cloud environment, a third-party <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mailsafi.com\/business-email-hosting\">Business email hosting provider<\/a> hosts all your emails for you. As with other cloud services, the advantages of adopting cloud email are often realized in reduced costs and increased operational efficiency. We discuss these as well as other non-monetary benefits of cloud-based email hosting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"1_No_large_capital_outlay\"><\/span><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">1. <strong>No large capital outlay<\/strong><\/mark><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote is-style-default\"><blockquote><p>With a cloud-based email solution, your company will have no capital expenses for email management.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> There is no need to purchase additional hardware or software unless you are looking for <a href=\"https:\/\/mailsafi.com\/blog\/email-hybrids-benefits\/\">hybrid redundancy<\/a>. Your email lives in the cloud. Therefore, it is still backed up there even if one of your systems goes down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mailsafi.com\/blog\/on-premise-email-vs-cloud-email-hosting\/\">Cloud-based email hosting<\/a> is a subscription service model that provides significant cost savings to implement and maintain the environment. By switching to cloud-based email, you eliminate your large capital outlay and convert your email to an operating expense. With this model, expenses are paid for either monthly, quarterly, bi-annual, or annually. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Electing to host your emails on the cloud means you don&#8217;t have to worry about hardware maintenance and upgrade costs. With a cloud-based email solution, your company will have no capital expenses for email management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For organizations that plan aggressive expansion on a global basis, the cloud has even greater appeal. It allows you to connect with branches, customers, suppliers, and other businesses anywhere with minimal effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is also no need to hire or outsource specialized staff to manage internal servers.  Outsourcing specialized staff to manage internal servers can lead to unpredictable and exorbitant recurrent operating costs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"2_Improved_security\"><\/span><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">2. Improved security<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>While your in-house server may have a local antivirus running and a <a href=\"https:\/\/mailsafi.com\/blog\/15-benefits-of-email-archiving-for-business\/\">backup plan<\/a>, it is still incredibly vulnerable. For instance, backups may be forgotten, or they may exist but are never tested. Or, virus definitions may be outdated. Also, you\u2019re lucky if your on-premise server can survive a fire or flood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When you use a third-party email service provider (not shared hosting), your corporate emails reside in offsite, highly-protected data centers. Effectively, this makes it more secure than hosting on-premise. Cloud-based providers can devote more resources to securing their servers because this is their core business. This translates to your hosted business emails being more secure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, most cloud-based email systems are always up-to-date&nbsp;with the latest security patches and email security features, including spam filters. Your business emails are therefore <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mailsafi.com\/email-spam-filter\">protected from spam, viruses, malware, phishing, or spoofing threats<\/a>. Therefore, the decision to switch to a cloud-based solution is a step in the right direction in improving your organization\u2019s email and data security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"3_Easy_to_scale\"><\/span><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">3. Easy to scale<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>With the advancement of email as the primary business communication over phone calls and meetings, the volume of information exchanged via email is staggering. As companies grow, their need for more storage space for emails may increase gradually over time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cloud-based solutions are easier to scale. You can increase storage space at a lower cost, unlike on-premise servers that are often limited in hard drive space. Businesses that need to increase their storage space often have to incur high costs to purchase additional storage. Conversely, as email hosting is the specialty of many third-party email providers, they have access to resources at a cheaper cost. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Therefore, hosting your email with a third-party makes it easy and significantly cheaper to increase storage capacity without having to make any changes to your environment. This ensures businesses only pay based on overall usage, user requirements, and company growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"4_Improved_up-time\"><\/span><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">4. Improved up-time<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Because your data is stored in the cloud, your organization will also have better <a href=\"https:\/\/mailsafi.com\/blog\/a-resilient-backup-strategy\/\">disaster recovery <\/a>response times than organizations with on-premise or shared hosting solutions. This is because managing emails is the core business of third-party email service providers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many cloud-based email providers invest in replicating their servers in multiple sites for redundancy. For this reason, cloud-based emails have proved to offer a significant reduction in email downtime compared to on-premise or shared hosting solutions. These usually come with up-time guarantees that let your business get on with essential tasks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"5_Simplified_administration\"><\/span><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">5. Simplified administration<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Cloud email hosting simplifies the administration of your organization\u2019s email management. Your business and IT team(s) will not need to worry about version control or server maintenance issues as a third-party provider handles these.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"6_Remote_access\"><\/span><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">6. Remote access<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Users or employees can access their emails remotely wherever they are, making them more productive. There has been an increasing trend of employees working from home, mobile or remote working. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cloud-based email supports this model as email is accessed anywhere and anytime. When out-of-office, workers enjoy the convenience of accessing their email from different devices (tablets, phones, or personal laptops).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"7_Continuous_support\"><\/span><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">7. Continuous support<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Cloud solutions are service-oriented models. They are not the typical \u201csell and forget\u201d software or hardware. You have access to support services from your provider as long as they are hosting your emails.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-vivid-red-color has-text-color\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"BONUS_Team_Collaboration_Tools\"><\/span><strong>BONUS! Team Collaboration Tools<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>An additional benefit of cloud email hosting is the availability of team collaboration tools such as a calendar for scheduling appointments, an address book for saving and sharing contacts with others in the organization, file sharing and synchronization, instant messaging tools (chat), video and audio call\/meeting tools. Read more on the <a href=\"https:\/\/mailsafi.com\/blog\/benefits-of-digital-collaboration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">benefits of team collaboration tools in the workplace.<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Conclusion\"><\/span><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">Conclusion<\/mark><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Owing to the advantages discussed above, it is no surprise that third-party or <a href=\"https:\/\/mailsafi.com\/email-hosting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">cloud-email hosting<\/span><\/strong><\/a> has grown in popularity over the past decade. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Its allure and promise offer newfound flexibility for businesses\u2014everything from cost saving, improved security, time-saving to improved scalability and agility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s consensus among many business decision-makers that it is important to leverage <a href=\"https:\/\/mailsafi.com\/email-hosting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">cloud email hosting<\/span><\/strong><\/a> to achieve their business goals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Relying on a third-party email service provider is one of the best investments a business can make for a smoother, faster, reliable, and more organized emailing experience leaving the organization to focus on its core business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote is-style-default\"><blockquote><p><strong><em>You are better off paying a third-party cloud-based email provider and having peace of mind.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Are_You_Interested_in_Cloud_Email\"><\/span><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">Are You Interested in Cloud Email?<\/mark><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-light-green-cyan-background-color has-background\">If you would like to enjoy all the benefits of cloud email discussed in this article, please <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mailsafi.com\/contact-us\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">contact us<\/span><\/a><\/strong> today. You may also sign up for a trial to see if it is a good fit for your organization. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-layout-2 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-vivid-cyan-blue-background-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mailsafi.com\/business-email-hosting#pricing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sign up for Free 30-day Trial<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-light-green-cyan-background-color has-background\">Take advantage of our <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mailsafi.com\/subscribe\/create\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">MailSafi Trial<\/span><\/a><\/strong> program and move a pilot group of your users to <a href=\"https:\/\/mailsafi.com\/email-hosting\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\"><strong>MailSafi <\/strong><\/span><\/a>(i.e., move your first <strong>30<\/strong> mailboxes from your existing environment to the cloud). 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