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Email hosting

Email on your own domain, in the panel you already have.

Mailboxes, aliases and shared access on the domains you already host here - set up from the same panel, with the DNS checked for you. Included on every paid plan.

14 days free. No credit card. No commitment.

Encrypted messages

Revocable, no account needed

Same price

On renewal, every year

99.99%

Uptime, last 12 mo

Daily

Backups kept up to 30 days

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210+

Tasks Ellie handles

What you get

Everything a mailbox needs, none of it extra

  • Mailboxes on your domain

    Real mailboxes at your own address, not forwarding into a personal Gmail. Webmail in the browser, and full IMAP for Apple Mail, Outlook or whatever is already on your phone.

  • Aliases that cost you nothing

    hello@, billing@ and sales@ can all land in one mailbox. Aliases and shared mailboxes do not count against your allowance, so you are not charged per address.

  • DNS set up and checked for you

    MX, SPF and DKIM with a live check beside each record. If your DNS is with us we publish them in one click; if it is elsewhere we give you the exact values and tell you when they land.

  • Two-step verification per mailbox

    Separate from your Hostney login, because a mailbox is how every other account you own gets recovered. Reset it from the panel if someone loses their phone.

  • App passwords

    A separate password per device, shown once and revocable from the panel. Lose a phone and you cut off that one device without touching the others.

  • Authentication reporting

    DMARC reporting shows who is sending mail as your domain and whether it passes authentication, including anyone pretending to be you.

Your mailboxes are shared across your domains

Most hosts count mailboxes per domain, which means buying an allowance again for every domain you own. Yours is per account: run all of them on one domain, or spread them across five. Aliases and shared mailboxes do not count at all.

Encrypted messages

Send something sensitive to anyone, and take it back

Normal email is a postcard. It is copied across servers on the way, it lands in a mailbox you do not control, and once it is gone you cannot recall it. Every mailbox here can send an encrypted message instead - and the person receiving it needs no Hostney account and no software.

They get an ordinary email with a link. They click it, we email them a six-digit code, and the message opens in their browser with its attachments. They can reply from the same page.

How we handle your data
Why it can be revoked
  • The message never travels over email - only a link does, so there is nothing in transit to intercept.
  • You can revoke it after sending. The link stops opening, even for someone who already has the email.
  • It expires on its own - two weeks by default, and you can set longer.
  • Only the addresses you listed can open it, re-checked every time the page is used rather than once at unlock.
  • They reply from the same page, and a message sent to three people is three private conversations.

AI features

Optional help with the inbox, off until you ask

  • Triage labels each new message as needs reply, follow-up, FYI or newsletter - by what it needs from you, not what it is about.
  • Nothing is moved or deleted. The labels are standard IMAP keywords, so they show up in your other mail apps too.
  • Summaries are on demand: open a long email, ask for the gist, and pick the language you want it in.
  • Both are off until you switch them on, per mailbox, from the control panel.

Most tools sort mail by topic, which tells you what a message is about - something the subject line already did. Triage sorts by what it needs from you, which is the question you actually have when you open a full inbox on a Monday.

We tell you where your mail goes

Switching these on sends the content of the messages being labelled or summarised to Anthropic, our AI provider. You are told that in the panel before anything is enabled, it applies only to the mailbox you enable, and turning it off stops it immediately.

Pricing

Simple, transparent pricing

Every plan includes managed WordPress, SSH access, daily backups, and enterprise-grade security. Start with a 14-day free trial.

Startup

Great for growing businesses

$7.99/mo

$94.99 billed annually

  • 1 website
  • 10 GB storage
  • ~10,000 visits/month
  • 5 MySQL databases
  • 250,000 inodes
  • 5 FTP users

What's included:

SSL & Domain

  • Free SSL certificate
  • Free starter domain

Email

  • 2 mailboxes
  • 3 GB per mailbox
  • Webmail, IMAP and SMTP
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Advanced

For professional websites

$14.99/mo

$179.99 billed annually

  • 5 websites
  • 20 GB storage
  • ~110,000 visits/month
  • 10 MySQL databases
  • 500,000 inodes
  • 10 FTP users

Everything in Startup, plus:

Email

  • 5 mailboxes
  • 5 GB per mailbox

Backups

  • 14 days of backup history

Performance

  • Memcached object cache
  • Redis object cache

Pro

Maximum performance and features

$22.99/mo

$274.99 billed annually

  • 10 websites
  • 40 GB storage
  • ~200,000 visits/month
  • 20 MySQL databases
  • 750,000 inodes
  • 20 FTP users

Everything in Advanced, plus:

Email

  • 10 mailboxes
  • 10 GB per mailbox

Deployment

  • 2 SSR applications

Backups

  • 30 days of backup history

Monitoring

  • 1 minute between checks

Get started

Put your email where your sites already are

Mailboxes, encrypted messages and two-step verification on every paid plan.
Start free for 14 days, no credit card required.

Questions

Frequently asked questions

Which plans include email?
Every paid plan. Startup includes 2 mailboxes, Advanced 5 and Pro 10. The Trial plan does not include email hosting. Your allowance is shared across all the domains on your account rather than counted per domain, so you can split it however you like.
Do aliases use up my mailboxes?
No. Aliases and shared mailboxes are unlimited - only real mailboxes with their own sign-in count against your allowance. So support@, billing@ and info@ can all deliver into one mailbox at no extra cost.
Can I use Outlook or Apple Mail?
Yes. Every mailbox speaks IMAP and SMTP, so any standard mail app works. The panel shows you the exact server settings. If you have two-step verification switched on, create an app password in webmail and use that in the app instead of your account password - IMAP has no way to prompt for a second factor.
What happens to my existing email when I move?
Your mail keeps flowing to your current provider until you change the MX record, so you can create mailboxes and test them first and switch when you are ready. Changing MX is the moment new mail starts arriving at Hostney; nothing is deleted at your old provider by us.
Is the AI reading my email?
Only if you switch it on, and only for the mailbox you switch it on for. Every mailbox starts with it off. When you do enable it, we tell you plainly that the content of the messages being labelled or summarised is sent to Anthropic, our AI provider, and processed on their systems, and you confirm that before anything is enabled. Turning it off takes effect immediately and never asks you to confirm anything.
How is an encrypted message different from a normal one?
A normal email is delivered into a mailbox you do not control, and once it is sent you cannot take it back. An encrypted message sends only a link; the content stays sealed on our server and opens in the recipient's browser after they enter a code we email them. That is what makes it revocable and expiring, and it means the content is never sitting on the servers in between. The recipient needs no Hostney account and no software.