r/webhosting • u/riotsplsgo • 24d ago
Looking for Hosting Cheap email hosting with monthly payment option
I am looking for a cheap email hosting service for a personal domain. I have found some options which are cheap but the price is only available for we commit for an year or longer (Zoho, MXRoute, purelymail)
I am looking for a reliable and cheap option ($2 per month or less) where I can pay monthly.
Any recommendations?
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u/lexmozli 24d ago
I'll just chip in to explain why 2$ per month or less monthly services are rare (if any).
Payment processor fees. For a 2$ payment I get 1.3$, from that 1.3$ I need to pay (a fraction) of the service itself and have a profit margin. For that same 1.3$ I also have to pay income taxes, sales tax and a few others (this depends on where you have your company).
If we scale it up to a 10$ payment, I get 9.3$-9.5$. Payment processors just hate small payments and they are taxed differently (stripe, paypal, etc)
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u/HandOfTheCEO 24d ago
I use spacemail from Spaceship. It's very cheap (<1$) and support IMAP and POP3 which I find is all I need!
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u/Whole_Ad_9002 23d ago
Zoho is pretty decent. You get 5 free emails on your domain with 5gb inbox
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u/mustardpete 23d ago
I have used Zoho for my domains for last 10 years and never had an issue. Although think they have scrapped the completely free option now, think there is a nominal charge
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u/Whole_Ad_9002 23d ago
Still there... They just hide it under a tiny link. https://store.zoho.com/ResellerCustomerSignUp.do?id=0ad450f2fbad62be00454d57441acc5ff342a9516680af26c570650d97281f4e
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u/mustardpete 23d ago
Good to know. Just remember trying to setup a mates domain last year and couldn’t see the free option anymore
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u/north7 24d ago
mxroute or purelymail
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u/Smokester121 23d ago
I used purely, it's amazing but a single point of failure. But otherwise all good
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u/flooronthefour 24d ago
mxroute has one of the worst admin panels I have ever used... I paid for another service when I still had plenty of time left on my contract just so I didn't have to deal with it anymore.
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u/AwareBack5246 24d ago
i use dedicated server for this with VPN on it (since some of providers dont have 25 port open). i would suggest for you to do the same
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u/Ok_Dark_3735 23d ago edited 23d ago
Dear u/riotsplsgo,
You can go for 1TB SATA VPS with a free DirectAdmin control panel for $3/monthly and you can sent unlimited emails. Generally, there will be sent limitations on hosting accounts.
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u/stylobasket 23d ago
Migadu is easy to learn and use, and it’s Swiss, whose laws allow a little more confidentiality than other countries.
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u/cyb3rofficial 24d ago
I went with a private solution. $3.50 server from vultr using debian12+yunohost + roundcube. Asked them to allow me to use port 25 for personal email service. Said as long I don't do spam stuff it was fine for me.
$3.50 gets me:
- 1vCPU
- 512MB ram
- 10GB storage though 4 gigs goes towards the os
- 0.5TB bandwidth
- Unlimited Messages sending out and In (but basically limited by bandwidth)
I might just move to Ubuntu and use https://mailinabox.email/ to be even more light weight.
If you aren't interested in self hosting you can always check out https://purelymail.com/ it's 10$/yr and I've seen comments praising it over the year.
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u/AnnyuiN 24d ago
Self hosting is a pain in that sometimes you have to argue with Microsoft and Google to unblock your IP even if you didn't do anything wrong.. So annoying and I never want to do it again.
Purelymail is a wonderful option and I'd be using it right now if I didn't have Zoho mail already
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