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Email is an essential part of business communication today. It would be impossible for most companies to operate without it. Whether you’re a small or large company, email is most likely used in everyday business operations. However, the size of your company may determine whether you should host your email internally or externally.

Hosting e-mail internally does have significant costs associated with maintaining the e-mail servers, either with internal technical staff or a support vendor. You need to constantly install patches and maintain backups, as well as plan for disaster recovery. A small business with a limited to non-existent IT department often would have to rely on one internal person–who could get sick, quit or take a vacation–or an offsite consultant. At the same time, hosting internally does allow you to have more control.

However, hosting e-mail or applications externally allows you to transfer many of these costs and maintenance problems to a hosting vendor. Although, you then have to do your homework on that firm. When you use hosted e-mail, you’re dependent on both your vendor and your network connection. You also have to be comfortable having your data stored on someone else’s hardware. Therefore, if you have strict data security requirements, hosting your e-mail externally won’t work for you. Another issued with e-mail and applications hosting companies is that they have many restrictions on attachment sizes and storage space.

However you decide to host your email, you can always receive your faxes via your email using email fax from GoFaxer. Contact GoFaxer today for more information.