A frequently asked question we get, and the reason why we wrote this blog post is: “Why are some web hosting services more expensive than a cheap 3rd party service I can get from well-known web hosting companies, and why should I choose the more expensive option?”

Sending automated emails from your website sounds simple, but if you run your own website which uses this functionality a lot, you may well be familiar with the dreaded problem of SPAM filters.

We've hosted websites for over a decade, managed from Northern Ireland and hosted on servers in the UK, France, Germany and the USA. We've been a customer ourselves of web hosting companies for even longer, almost two decades. We've gained a lot of experience in that time and we want to share some of that experience in this blog post.