Hosted email vs. email forwarding

Want to add a custom email address for your domain? We offer two ways to do it: Hosted email and email forwarding. What's the difference? Read on to find out!

Hosted email is an email inbox on our servers. You get a professional-looking email address of your choice, or you can purchase multiple inboxes to give everyone at your company their own address, for instance:

alice@mypretendbusiness.example

bob@mypretendbusiness.example

info@mypretendbusiness.example

Hosted email:

• Allows you to send an email from your custom address. With email forwarding, you can only receive emails sent to your custom address.
• Can be accessed via Porkbun's webmail interface at https://webmail.porkbun.com/, or via a different email client like Gmail, Outlook, or the Mail app for iOS devices.
• Has 10GB of storage capacity per address.
• Costs $2/month per address (billed yearly).

Sound good? Check out our article on how to get an email inbox for your domain:

How to Set Up Email Hosting Services

Email forwarding addresses simply forward mail to an existing email address. Any replies you send won't show as having been sent from your custom email address, they will have a "From:" address of the email address you forwarded to. However, email forwards are free! If an email forward is all you need, you get twenty free forwarding addresses per domain.

Sound good? Check out our article on how to set up your email forward address: 

How to set up email forwarding.

You can also purchase one hosted email account and forward several aliases to it. For instance, you could purchase support@mypretendbusiness.example and then use free email forwards to make tech@mypretendbusiness.example, info@mypretendbusiness.example, and jeff@mypretendbusiness.example all forward to support@mypretendbusiness.example.

Feel free to contact our support team if you have any questions or concerns about setting up email services on your domain.