If you already have e-mail accounts from other sources (perhaps through your ISP or from a free service like Hotmail or Gmail) you might be wondering why you should bother with more e-mail accounts.

Here are a few of the many reasons:

• Give your communication a more polished appearance: This is especially important if you are running your own business. If you sell products online and then ask people to contact you at an AOL or Hotmail e-mail account, they may wonder if your company is real. With e-mail coming from your domain, you can give the impression that you are a large business even if you're just running it out of your basement.

• Complete control over your e-mail: You can forward e-mail to one or more people utomatically, create or remove extra e-mail addresses whenever you want, forward all mail sent to your domain to another domain altogether. The choice is yours. You're only limited by the disk space and features permitted in your hosting plan.

• Improved anti-spam features: You have complete control over the advanced spam ighting technologies cPanel offers. Several of these features are of the sort you find in expensive commercial products, but you get them all for no additional charge (depending on your web host).

• Wide range of choices concerning how to access your e-mail: Access your e-mail from any web browser securely, download it to your local computer or manage mail both locally and on the web at the same time.

 

Although the freedom managing your own e-mail gives you is a wonderful thing, this doesn't mean you should completely abandon all other e-mail addresses. You should keep at least one other e-mail address that isn't part of your hosted domain (even the free e-mail services will do). The reason for this is unless you have a dedicated server, there may be times (exceedingly rare times) when your hosted domain may go down or perhaps you run out of disk space or bandwidth. You do need to have an alternative e-mail address where your web host and other people can get in touch with you if your domain isn't working.