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Guide to Email Hosting in Singapore

August 18th, 2008 • blog reactions

In context of the web world, email has become lifeblood of businesses having been the most obligatory connection between them and their clients. It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to assume that email has been the source of inspiration for many a business to operate courtesy websites.Looking at email hosting from an inquisitive perspective, one might question its importance in web marketing and doing business over the internet. Doing business on internet might leave you with several things to deal with but with the existence of email hosting, things have become lot easier. You may even start a business on web along with an email server devoid of full emailing proficiency. As much startling as that might be, it is solely email hosting deserving the credit.

Need more elaboration on email hosting? Putting it very simply, email hosting is basically the component of internet hosting service that deals with operating email servers. Users can send and receive emails and while you could find a lot of services catering email hosting packages, predominantly, the service is meant for support to big sized business concerns. Best part of email hosting - you get to have certified email addresses without being involved in the complexities of web hosting. There is absolutely no need to have an e-commerce site. All you need is a program on your computer to retrieve and send emails or any computer with an internet connection. There are no barriers on the number of emails you would want to send or receive. There is an obvious advantage of managing your corporate emails with expediency and convenience. A mere email could open your doors to an extremely successful business.

Then comes the big question as always - How to look for the most appropriate Singapore email hosting company? List down your requirements and begin the search. Evaluate what your short-listed companies have to offer you. Be clear in identifying your priorities. Once you hand over your emails to an email hosting company, you may be relieved on a major front unless you have picked up the wrong option. This way, you can concentrate much better on all the other aspects of your business that require your vigilance.

HostSG provides email hosting services to more than 20,000 business users in Singapore and Asia.

Advantage of Singapore Web Hosting and Oversea Hosting

August 4th, 2008 • blog reactions

Too often, customers asked what is the difference between Singapore web hosting and overseas (US web hosting). The pricing between having your web site hosted in Singapore and in US can be quite a big difference. This is mainly because in the United States, bandwidth is considered as local bandwidth, while bandwidth in Singapore is considered as international bandwidth.

Though with the price difference for web hosting plans, there are however many advantages of having your web site hosted in Singapore. Generally, when your audience is mainly based in Singapore, you would like to have local support from a Singapore web hosting company in the same time zone, which most Singapore businesses do not want to make an international call to their web hosting company in the United States just for minor issue such as password change that requires immediate attention. As of such, a Singapore web hosting company offers you better support needs in comparison to overseas hosting company.

Next, the speed access for your customers in Singapore would definately be faster when you use a Singapore web hosting company, due to the fact that they do not have to make additional internet connection hops to United  States when they surf your web site.

HostSG offers web hosting in Singapore since 1997 and is the leading choice of many MNCs and SME businesses. Our datacentre is located in Singtel Somerset Datacentre which provides the fastest and more reliable hosting service in Singapore.

All Businesses need a Preventive Maintenance Contract

July 29th, 2008 • blog reactions

Every businesses understand the frustration when your workstations break down, it stop work production and can drastically affects business revenues. Effective communication with your customers is badly affected. When such happened, it is time for you to consider taking up a preventive maintenance contract by outsourcing your IT support to a third party vendor. Read more…

3D Box Images - Great for web design product branding

July 29th, 2008 • blog reactions

3d package is a 3d-box graphic generator. 3d package lets you instantly create 3d-box images online, free!

Just upload pictures for cover and sides and then get 3d-box in you favorite image format (JPG, GIF, PNG supported). Useful for web site design requires professional product images in boxes.

Swift Mailer - PHP Mailer Library

July 29th, 2008 • blog reactions

email hostingSwift Mailer is a feature-rich PHP mailer library for sending e-mails from PHP websites and applications.Mail IconIt does not rely on PHP’s native mail() class which consumes high resources. Instead, Swift communicates directly with an SMTP server or a MTA binary to send mail quickly and efficiently.

Swift supports event-driven plugins which offer you the opportunity to really take control of the library and set this mailer apart from everything else that’s out there.

For HostSG email hosting customers, you can consider using Swift Mailer for your PHP email form function.

 

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