If you`re looking for a professional email service and you`re willing to pay a small amount of money for this service I think I can help you. I know, free email services sucks if you have the money and you want something that will load fast and it`s stable. I mean you`re willing to pay some money so it should be damn stable, you`re not going to loose your emails. There are a couple of alternatives but I am going to show you what I like and NO, nobody paid me for writing this article, I am going to talk only from my experience.
You could use your ISP provider email
Since you`re paying for an internet connection, most of the ISP will provide a free email address that should not contain any ads, if they run ads it sucks, I know. In USA I know about Comcast, Earthlink, Juno, NetZero ( same thing with Juno - it`s the United Online company I guess ), Road Runner ( RR ), Cox and there are many others but I am not going to list all of them here.
If you already tried your ISP email and you don`t like it then move to the next option
You could purchase a domain name with an webhosting package
Yes, this could be an option especially when you could pay around $ 100 or less / year for your own website with your own email. Your email could look like this :
john@johncompay.com or john@mycompany.net etc...
It would look good but it depends if you need such an email. If you intend to run a small business this would be one of the best things to do.
From where ? There are a lot of webhosting companies with low prices such as :
godaddy.com
hostgator.com
bluehost.com
inmotionhosting.com
aplus.net
Those are only a couple of them with affordable prices ( make your own research and read reviews about them before buying anything from them - don`t say that I didn`t warned you )
If this is not a solution for you just check the last option.
You could purchase an email from a company that provides only paid email addresses.
My favourite company that provides paid email services is FastMail.fm although it was aquired by those from Opera.com and I don`t know if this will change their quality. Yes, I have one email address at them and I am using it since 2003 which means for almost 8 years...Fastmail.FM never dissapointed me, imagine that back then in 2003 I was using a dial-up connection and when I was logging in their email it was fast, very fast compared with other email providers.
This is their address: https://www.fastmail.fm/
They have a lot of features and a lot of services. I would recommend you to signup as a free user and see if you like what you see. If you like their email you may want to upgrade this email address or create a new paid one from the start. It will work both ways.
For business emails you would have to choose from 3 plans ( you will use your existing domain if any or buy one ) :
Basic $ 14.95/year Email Size:250M Files:2M
Standard $ 29.95/year Email Size:1500M Files:100M
Professional $ 59.95/12m Email:15000M Files:500M
For personal emails you would have to choose from 3 plans ( you don`t need any domain names, you will use one of them ) :
Level Cost (US$) Username Mailbox Bandwidth
Ad-Free $4.95 per year 5+ chars 100M 640M/month
Full $19.95 per year 4+ chars 1000M 1200M/month
Enhanced $39.95 per year 3+ chars 10000M 4000M/month
I was using them as I said for 8 years and I still use them. I hope they will never change. This is the best email service that I know and when I said that, I was talking about a company that exists since 1999 which is something. I wouldn`t consider a company that has 1-2 years old in this niche. Everyone could buy a webhosting package and install a mail application, there are a lot of them. After that create a website and tell them that they are a reliable email provider. NO, I am talking here about these guys because I was using them since 2003 and they never dissapointed me, not even once. As I said, they were aquired by Opera.com and I don`t know if this will be something good or bad but at this time, they worth a try. Try a free user, check all of their features and services and see if you like them. If it suits your need then go ahead. Also, you can pay monthly so you have nothing to lose. It`s exactly what I did and that`s why I was thinking at this article.
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