Thursday, March 11, 2010

DIY Email hosting


Easy to install DIY email hosting software

DIY Email hosting, how to make your own email hosting server.

The email system today is for the most part controlled by domains such as Google, Hotmail(MSN) and Yahoo. These domains provide free email hostings at no charges to the user, and are transforming the game of the email market. But one might ask, how is this making money? They're free! Well, If every one of these domains are doing this, there should be profit gained from hosting free email sites.

This brings us back to the days everyone hadto pay extra for their email accounts, and those email accounts contain only around few megabytes of capacity. One even have to pay more for the bandwidth and relays if it surpasses your plan! All that has evolved, today's web hosting; as well as server hosting is almost equal to the amount of money we used to pay for just email accounts. Bandwidth speed and total capacity has been ever since increasing rapidly, more and more information are now being distrubuted across the internet, the amount of people gaining acess to the Internet has multiplied to almost 380% from years 200 to 2009 based on the data provided by internetworldstats.com.

Now, if we take a look at the ways popular domains make money, we will soon come across "Ultra-Targetted Advertisements", exactly why Google, Yahoo, Hotmail are so successful is they often provide verydetailed advertisements to users who uses their search engine. Determined by the keywords you searched, they could create a summary of advertisement to show up while searching. It aids your search and simultaneously promotes products for the Advertiser, this method has genereated billions of profit for Google, Yahoo, MSN(Hotmail). The crucial role free email hosting plays in this part is, nowadays pretty much everybody has their email account. Often user might find generated advertisements on the sides or included in the signature, this yields even higher profits for all these domains.

So how does this all be relevant to the individuals? As free email hosting becomes more and more widespread, I've gottensimilar questions alot, "How can I make my own email hosting site?". I wondered the same myself, I pondered around on google, but all I found was pre-existing sites trying to sell me pre-registered email domains and it's still part of their system, there are limitations on what you could customize and do Is it really that hard to setup my own email hosting server? I then came across a site which claims they have a software that can easily create sites with the Google Mail interface, AJAX. At first this sounds impossible, but doing further research made me interested in this product, when I saw they are providing free trials I promptly signed up and was given a copy of the software. To my suprise the installation process was easy as they have a in-depth guide in PDF format as well as the entire layout of the site in a folder, all I had to do was upload it AS-IS onto my FTP server and go along with the PDF guide to configure it took me around 30 minutes and the site is running! If you ever have your dream of creating your own email hosting service I HIGHLY RECOMMEND to check out this software.

Easy to install DIY email hosting software