Fully managed email versus running your own mail server

You could run your own mail server, but for most small businesses it's a poor trade. Managed Email gives you the result without the burden.

What running your own server really involves: provisioning and patching the server, configuring the mail software, keeping SPF/DKIM/DMARC correct, building and maintaining spam and virus filtering, managing storage, arranging backups, monitoring deliverability and reputation, and dealing with it all when something breaks — often out of hours.

What Managed Email involves for you: asking. We build and run the whole service — the domain, the DNS and authentication, the 25 mailboxes, the MxGuard filtering, the backups — and adding mailboxes, resetting passwords, changing DNS and configuring devices are all things you request and we do.

The filtering is a genuinely business-grade gateway you'd struggle to replicate yourself, the deliverability is configured by people who do it daily, and the backups are encrypted and off-site. You get professional, reliable, protected email on your own domain — and you get your time back — for £12/month.