Every year around Christmas time, the amount of spam email traffic would increase by huge amount. A lot of people may experience delay in receiving emails due to mail servers being overloaded with spam. Last year, the web hosting company that I used to work at, had spam emails increased by over 500% than normal volume. The firewall servers were busy scanning all the incoming emails, causing delays up to 12 to 24 hours. This was very annoying especially for the business clients who rely on email extensively.

Testing Email Service

So this is the time for the real test to the web hosting companies. If you are still receiving emails in a timely manner at this time around, then your web hosting service provider should be doing pretty well in managing its email service. This blog is being hosted by Bluehost. I am going to test its email service by sending some emails to a lebokov21.com email address from my personal Gmail, Yahoo, and Hotmail accounts.

Bluehost Passed

I have sent three emails from each of my Gmail, Yahoo, and Hotmail account. All emails from Gmail and Hotmail were received instantly at my lebokov21.com account. Two of the three emails from Yahoo were received instantly. The other email from Yahoo didn’t arrive at all. (When I was working in the web hosting company, It has often happened with emails from Yahoo being lost if emails were sent within short amount of time to the same address. There seems to be some rules on Yahoo’s side governing this.)

From the tests, it seems that Bluehost’s email service is doing pretty well even during the spamming season. I wonder if other Bluehost users are experiencing the same. How is your email service doing from your hosting service provider?