Email Hosting vs Gmail/Google Workspace

Free Gmail with a @gmail.com address is not professional for business. Clients trust info@your-company.com more than yourcompany123@gmail.com. Google Workspace lets you have email on your own domain, but it is more expensive than email hosting. For a small company with 5 employees, email hosting costs around €5 per month, while Google Workspace costs around €30 per month.

BeoHosting email hosting starts from about €1 per mailbox per month. The price depends on storage and the number of email accounts. Most BeoHosting hosting plans already include an unlimited number of email accounts on your domain. Google Workspace starts from about €6 per user per month (Business Starter), which is significantly more for companies with several employees.

Yes, email hosting supports IMAP and POP3 protocols, which means you can use Outlook, Thunderbird, Apple Mail or any other email client. You also have access to webmail (RoundCube or Horde) to read email from any browser. The SMTP protocol lets you send email from desktop and mobile apps.

Migrating from Gmail to email hosting is relatively simple. You can use IMAP sync to transfer all existing emails, or the BeoHosting team can help with the migration for free. The most important step is changing the MX records on your domain to point email to the new server. During migration, the old and new email run in parallel so you will not miss any messages.

Yes, BeoHosting email hosting includes professional spam protection via SpamExperts, which filters 99.98% of spam before it reaches your mailbox. Antivirus protection via ClamAV is also included. Google's spam filter is also excellent and uses AI for detection - this is one of the few criteria where Gmail is slightly better.