Email server
Host your emails on a reliable and secure infrastructure
Manage your messaging with OVHcloud Eco dedicated servers, and get dedicated resources for smooth exchanges as well as advanced threat protection – all while reducing your environmental impact.
Reliable, cost-effective email server
An effective messaging solution should be based on a suitable hosting plan, capable of ensuring the continuity of your email exchanges and the confidentiality of your data. With OVHcloud Eco Dedicated Servers, you retain total control over your environment, without relying on a third-party service. You get a high-performance, scalable infrastructure, designed to optimise your costs while being more environmentally-friendly.
The advantages of Eco servers for email hosting
Reliability and consistent performance
Dedicated servers with up to 24 processor cores and 1 TB of RAM, guaranteeing smooth email management even during high traffic times. Access to dedicated resources ensures optimal availability and fast send and receive processing.
Optimum security and connectivity
Dedicated bandwidth of up to 2 Gbps and unlimited traffic to ensure fast and continuous exchanges. The available IPv4 addresses and IPv6 subnets give you complete control over your messaging infrastructure.
Cost control and sustainability
Designed to offer excellent value for money, Eco servers are an effective alternative for hosting your emails at no extra cost. They are based on an optimised and sustainable infrastructure, combining reliability with cost-effectiveness.
Most common use cases
Private email server
This architecture is ideal for individuals, freelancers or small businesses looking to host their own email service without relying on a third-party provider. It offers enough capacity to manage regular messaging, while guaranteeing full control over account management and email flows. It’s easy to use, helps ensure data privacy, and allows you to customise settings as needed.
Features included:
- A private email solution hosted on an Eco dedicated server, with performance adapted to the volume of emails sent and received.
- Advanced spam and intrusion protection.
- IPv4 addresses and IPv6 subnets for refined management of access and routing rules.
- Root access and a simplified management interface to configure your server to suit your needs.
- Creating and managing mailboxes can be automated via API.
- Fast backups and optimised storage space to guarantee data continuity.
Multi-domain messaging
This architecture is ideal for companies and IT providers wishing to host multiple email domains for their teams or customers. Thanks to an optimised distribution of resources, it can manage a high volume of emails, ensuring stability, speed and high availability. It offers a scalable infrastructure, meeting the needs of growing organisations while centralising its administration.
Features included:
- Hosting multiple domains and managing multiple user accounts with dynamic resource allocation.
- Root access and advanced management via API to automate the configuration and deployment of new email addresses.
- Strong protection against cyber threats, including spam filtering and secure exchanges.
- Regular backups and the ability to expand storage to ensure data is preserved.
- High bandwidth ensuring fast transfers and smooth access to inboxes.
Eco servers recommended for email hosting
Explore our selection of Eco servers adapted for email hosting. Securely manage your emails with a reliable infrastructure, dedicated resources, and advanced protection.
The Eco range
Services and associated products
Included with Eco servers
Low latency
Accessible Eco servers, designed to offer minimal latency anywhere in the world.
Anti-DDoS protection included
Protect your infrastructure against attacks with permanent anti-DDoS protection.
Unlimited traffic
Get unlimited traffic on all of our servers, with bandwidth options ranging from 500 Mbps unmetered to 1 Gbps unmetered and guaranteed.
Storage space included
Each So you Start and Rise server includes 100 GB and 500 GB of secure storage for your backups, respectively, which can be scaled up as an option.
24/7 technical support
Support via email and telephone for all technical questions.
Service Level Agreement (SLA)
99.90% availability to ensure service continuity.
Your questions answered
Why choose an Eco dedicated server for an email service?
With a dedicated server, you can host a powerful, secure and scalable email service, without the limitations of shared solutions or external cloud solutions. It guarantees full control over the configuration, security and deliverability of your emails. With OVHcloud’s Eco dedicated server solution, you get a reliable infrastructure with a wide choice of configurations to suit the needs of businesses, service providers and organisations handling high volumes of emails. Root access allows advanced server management, while ensuring that exchanges remain confidential. If you would like a more flexible alternative, a VPS can be a good option for hosting lighter email services, or for testing different configurations before a large-scale deployment.
Which configuration is recommended for an email server?
Your ideal configuration will depend on the number of users and the volume of emails sent. For a medium-sized business, a server like OVHcloud’s KS-3 is recommended to ensure fluidity and reliability, which comes with a powerful processor, 32 GB of RAM, and SSD storage in RAID. Adding additional IP addresses optimises deliverability by segmenting email flows. Generous bandwidth ensures fast exchanges, even during busy periods, while redundant storage helps ensure service continuity.
How do I make my dedicated email server more secure?
To ensure the security of an email server, it is important to properly configure authentication protocols such as SPF, DKIM and DMARC, which prevent identity theft and improve message deliverability. TLS encryption is also essential for protecting exchanges from malicious interception. OVHcloud’s additional IPs offer valuable flexibility in the event of an incident, or to better distribute traffic. Finally, a well-configured firewall, regular updates and active log monitoring help to anticipate and counter potential hacking attempts.
How do I monitor my email server’s activity and performance?
Surveillance is essential to detecting any delivery issues or attempted cyberattacks. Tools such as Grafana and Prometheus can be configured to visually monitor performance, such as traffic, server load, and send failure rate. It is also a good idea to set up alerts to detect any unusual activity, such as a sudden increase in sent emails or suspicious login attempts.
(1) Excludes datacentres in the Asia-Pacific region.