webhosting

Practical guide to web hosting

One of the most basic reasons in taking the assistance of a web hosting service provider apart from developing your website is to get access to your personal email. Depending on how much you are willing to spend the host providers will offer you one to more than 1000 email accounts. Large corporate houses believe in setting up numerous email accounts. With the help of POP3 or Post Office Protocol 3 you can create number of email accounts. POP3 is the standard protocol to receive email. It can be termed as a client/server protocol. The email is received and is stored on the server.

Once the user downloads the email the POP3 deletes the mail on the server. There are some tools used by web hosting service providers that can save the email for a considerable number of time on the internet server. Most popular email products like Outlook express and Eudora use POP3. In other words POP can be referred as a ‘store and forward’ service. POP works fine in offline environment based on the client’s configuration. It also works perfectly well when connected to the internet but with some caution. The most important advantage of POP3 is the folder organization. Messages are separated into folders on the server for easy access.

POP3 can function perfectly with Windows Server 2003. Depending on the number of users and the disk space the server hardware size is determined. The mail store is formatted using NTFS file system. The job of POP3 service is to download the messages and send messages on a Windows based server. The request handling is done as per POP3 protocol. Clients can download the email once the delivery service moves the mails to the POP3 mail storage. In simple words POP3 service offered by web hosting service provider enables the client to host email accounts, provide tools to administer the server, mail box and the domains.