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Bluehost Puts Two-Factor Authentication on the Paid Tier
Most reasons to look are ordinary — per-user pricing, a renewal step, tiered features. One is not. Two-factor authentication sits on Professional Email Plus, so the cheapest plan is the one where a leaked password is enough.
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Alexey Bulygin
If Your Practice Needs a BAA, Stay With Hushmail
Hushmail sells HIPAA-compliant email with a signed Business Associate Agreement included. If your practice needs a BAA, stay — we do not sign one, so choosing on cost here would be choosing a compliance problem.
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Alexey Bulygin
HostGator Sells Titan Under Its Own Name
HostGator does not make an email product either — it resells Titan, the same platform GoDaddy sells under its own name. That is the third reseller in this series, and it means the limits are set by a company you are not buying from.
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Alexey Bulygin
The Squarespace Free Year Covers One Person
Squarespace gives a year of Google Workspace Starter to eligible website customers, then it renews at Google standard rates. Two details do the work: the offer covers one user per website, and the product was never theirs.
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Alexey Bulygin
DuckDuckGo Email Protection Was Never Meant to Be Your Mailbox
Email Protection is free, strips trackers out of your mail and forwards to an inbox you already have. What it is not is a mailbox: nothing is stored, addresses end in duck.com, and there is no custom domain.
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Alexey Bulygin
Runbox Alternative: Closer to Our Model Than Most
Runbox does not price per seat. It prices an account — storage and a domain count together — with unlimited aliases on every plan. That is the same shape we sell, which makes this a comparison of rungs rather than of models.
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Alexey Bulygin
Hover Sells a Terabyte for $40, and It Belongs to One Mailbox
Forty dollars a year for a terabyte is genuinely unmatched here, and their $5 forwarding solves a problem people routinely overpay for. The word doing the work is a — the terabyte belongs to one mailbox.
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Alexey Bulygin
Mailfence Gives Away Encryption and Charges for the Domain
Mailfence gives away the part most providers charge for — encryption and digital signing on every plan including the free one. What it charges for is the custom domain, which is the thing that makes an address a business address.
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Alexey Bulygin
DreamHost Charges a Fair Price, Once Per Mailbox
DreamHost sells standalone email at $1.67 a mailbox with 25 GB each, full IMAP and no ads, and you do not have to buy web hosting to get it. That is better than most of this bracket, so the argument is about the shape of the meter rather than the rate.
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Alexey Bulygin
Stalwart Is the Best-Designed Mail Server You Still Have to Run
Stalwart is the most modern thing in the self-hosted category: one integrated server for mail, calendars, contacts and files, with JMAP alongside every older protocol. Which is exactly why the argument here is not about the software.
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Alexey Bulygin
SimpleLogin Needs a Mailbox Behind It
SimpleLogin creates aliases and forwards what arrives to a mailbox you hold elsewhere. That is the product, not a shortcoming — but it means the bill is never your only mail bill, and the comparison is between two different layers.
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Alexey Bulygin
StartMail Alternative: Private Email Priced Per Person
StartMail is built for one person at a time, and that shape holds however many you add. They do two things the privacy tier usually gets wrong — real IMAP and unlimited aliases — so this is not a takedown.
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Alexey Bulygin