Any recommend for a new e-mail/web hosting provider please

Simon D

Simon D

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I have just be informed by TsoHost that they will be migrating my Lite cPanel-based shared hosting packages to the latest cPanel-based hosting platform from 30th August 2023

" The reason why we're carrying out this migration to offer our customers a better experience."

All I can see is this is going to cost me a lot more as the package will move from £24 biannually to monthly of fee of £6+. The only benefit is for them to get more money from me.

I am looking for any recommendation for a e-mail/web hosting company that does not cost the earth that has good customer phone support if required.

I have two domains (.co.uk & .uk) but only have one active with them and I use this just for e-mail hosting with office 365 outlook.

Thanks

Simon
 
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If you use iCloud or Google, you could host the email with them (for a fee) and the register the domain name with Cloudflare.
 
I’m obviously missing something because if your email is handled by Office 365 and you don’t have a website then why are you paying for web hosting?
 
Caged said:
I’m obviously missing something because if your email is handled by Office 365 and you don’t have a website then why are you paying for web hosting?
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We are just using outlook as a e-mail client to receive, so may need support for office 365 by the e-mail/web host
 
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the-evaluator said:
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If you're using Office 365 for email and don't need a website then you don't need web hosting.

You do need someone to run your DNS though, who are your domains registered through?
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My domains are registered with TsoHost.

I am using a desktop version of office 365 with outlook does this make a difference?
 
Which Microsoft 365 product have you actually bought? Are you just subscribed to Personal to get the software and OneDrive?

www.microsoft.com

Buy Microsoft 365 Personal (formerly Office 365) – Subscription Price | Microsoft Store

The Microsoft 365 Personal subscription includes powerful productivity apps, premium features, extra cloud storage and advanced security. For PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad and Android. Learn about features, pricing and how to buy.
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Caged said:
Which Microsoft 365 product have you actually bought? Are you just subscribed to Personal to get the software and OneDrive?

www.microsoft.com

Buy Microsoft 365 Personal (formerly Office 365) – Subscription Price | Microsoft Store

The Microsoft 365 Personal subscription includes powerful productivity apps, premium features, extra cloud storage and advanced security. For PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad and Android. Learn about features, pricing and how to buy.
www.microsoft.com
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I am subscribed to the Family edition for 6 users and I host 4 individual e-mail addresses from my domain. I buy the 1 year software when on offer to get the best price.

I have been looking around at different web hosting companies including both Microsoft and Google and found the pricing to be very comparable over £4+vat for a basic plan, all seem to be based on monthly subscription now.

if I go with Microsoft I can get the software as well now.
 
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I'm also with Tsohost and got the same email. I'm probably going to cancel my account with them as I'm paying £40.80 + VAT every 2 years so about £48.96 which is £2.04 a month. The 'new' cheapest plan is £3.99 a month + VAT or £4.78 which comes to £114.91 over the same two year period. This is over double the previous cost. I was barely using the storage so I guess this is the kick up the backside I needed to get rid of the Tsohost package.

I have my domains registered with namecheap.com and they offer hosting too. They have a 'Stellar' package which is the closest equivalent and offer it for £2.03 a month if you pay for 2 years up front with a 53% discount for the first two years so its quite similarly priced to the Tsohost package I'm on.

www.namecheap.com

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As others have said, you are right to move away and you if don't need web hosting, it should hardly cost anything these days.
I'm paying something like £9 a year for a domain with Ionos, the rest is managed by O365.
 
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I am in the same boat. Have TsoHost for some casual sites.

My main site it with 20i.

20i give you inboxes and a little webspace free with your domain.

.co.uk are £5.99 a year.
 
Any progress or other provider reccomendations on this? I don't want to go to Microsoft, my domain is already managed elsewhere.
I am in a similar situation, need to move away from TSOHost, only using one domain with a couple of (important) email accounts and about 10gb of emails (that want to keep) stored away in IMAP. It looks like the "email only" providers all seem to cost as much as my full WHM/Cpanel hosting!
 
Phrozenpenguin said:
Any progress or other provider reccomendations on this? I don't want to go to Microsoft, my domain is already managed elsewhere.
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What do you mean by 'managed elsewhere'? Other than changes to MX records (which will need to be made whoever you move to) there's no other DNS requirements when using ExchangeOnline.

ExchangeOnline is inexpensive and works extremely well. It's my go to when people asking about email hosting.
 
the-evaluator said:
What do you mean by 'managed elsewhere'? Other than changes to MX records (which will need to be made whoever you move to) there's no other DNS requirements when using ExchangeOnline.

ExchangeOnline is inexpensive and works extremely well. It's my go to when people asking about email hosting.
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By "managed elsewhere" I mean my domain registration and DNS is not managed by TSOhost therefore I am able to move without further inconvenience.

ExchangeOnline looks to be GBP4/month/user so nearly GBP50/annum. That doesn't seem inexpensive when we were used to paying GBP60/annum for a full reseller account with as many websites and email accounts as required within our space and bandwidth limits (which were plenty). I'm also not a great Microsoft fan, and no Microosft devices / systems will be accessing this, so I would prefer something independent and standards-compliant (e.g. IMAP).

I am also a Mac user, so exploring the iCloud+ email option, given I already pay for iCloud+.

Fastmail was the Gmail alternative years ago, looks to be about the same price as ExchangeOnline, so I think that would be my preference if we end up spending that.
 
Phrozenpenguin said:
By "managed elsewhere" I mean my domain registration and DNS is not managed by TSOhost therefore I am able to move without further inconvenience.
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You'll have the same challenge irrespective of where you go to as MX records will need to be changed.

Phrozenpenguin said:
ExchangeOnline looks to be GBP4/month/user so nearly GBP50/annum. That doesn't seem inexpensive when we were used to paying GBP60/annum for a full reseller account with as many websites and email accounts as required within our space and bandwidth limits (which were plenty). I'm also not a great Microsoft fan, and no Microosft devices / systems will be accessing this, so I would prefer something independent and standards-compliant (e.g. IMAP).
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It's all a matter of opinion, but I do think £50/year is inexpensive for a product the quality of ExchangeOnline. Show me somewhere else that'll give the level of resiliency as WOL including geographically diverse failover for that amount of money. But if cost is too high then the cost is too high.

EOL is fully IMAP4 and POP3 compliant but if you're not a fan of Microsoft then ok.
 
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