A company's online presence is really three services that depend on each other: a domain, a website, and business email on that domain. The right setup depends less on how ambitious the website is and more on how many mailboxes you need, how heavily the team relies on email, and who will look after it all. This guide plans the three together by team size, using the plan types listed on EngHosting's service pages.
Start with the domain, because everything hangs on it
The domain is the address of the website and of every email account, so it outlives any hosting plan you choose. Three rules prevent most of the problems companies run into later:
- Register it in the company's name, with a contact address that belongs to the company rather than to an employee or the web designer.
- Record where it is registered, when it renews and who can log in. A domain that lapses takes the website and the email down at the same moment.
- Pick the extension deliberately; our comparison of .com versus .eg for a business sets out the trade-offs.
Website and email: one plan or two?
Shared hosting plans include email accounts alongside the website, which is perfectly reasonable for a small team. A separate business email plan starts to make sense once email becomes the company's main working tool, for three reasons:
- Storage stops competing. Mailboxes grow every day with attachments. When website and mail live in one cPanel account, both draw on the same disk quota.
- Website work leaves email alone. Rebuilding the site, changing developers or moving the site to another server only changes the website's DNS records; the mail (MX) records stay as they are.
- Access is cleaner. The person who creates mailboxes does not need access to the website's files, and the web developer does not need access to staff email.
Options by team size
Count mailboxes, not people: shared addresses such as info@, sales@ and accounts@ need accounts too. The table pairs each team size with the matching options on the plan cards, either email inside a shared hosting plan or a separate email plan.
| Team size | Email inside shared plan | Separate email plan |
|---|---|---|
| Up to 5 | Personal (5 accounts) | Starter (5 accounts) |
| Up to 10 | Economy (10 accounts) | Advanced (10 accounts) |
| Up to 20 | Advanced (50 accounts) | Professional (20) |
| Up to 50 | Advanced (50 accounts) | Small Business (50) |
| Up to 100 | Business (100 accounts) | Large Business (100) |
Two details on the plan cards are worth weighing. First, backups: the Personal shared plan does not include the free daily backup, which starts from the Economy plan; among the email plans, a free daily backup appears from the Professional plan upwards. If the company would be in trouble after losing a week of email, that alone may decide the choice. Second, according to the email plan pages, the Professional plan lists a free .COM domain and the Small Business and Large Business plans list a free .com, .net or .org domain. Every email plan card also lists webmail access, IMAP/POP3/SMTP, spam filtering and connections encrypted with SSL.
Choosing the website plan by what the site does
- Company profile site: a few pages and a contact form fit shared hosting; the free daily backup begins at the Economy plan, which makes it the sensible minimum.
- Marketing site on WordPress: the WordPress plans add one-click WordPress install, and from the Advanced WordPress plan they add LiteSpeed, CloudLinux and Imunify360.
- Bookings or online sales: start on an Advanced-level plan or above, and plan the move to a VPS as traffic grows.
- Internal systems: accounting, ERP or CRM software that staff use all day belongs on a VPS, Linux or Windows depending on the application; our guide to which business systems run on a VPS covers the choice.
For HTTPS, the shared hosting and WordPress plan cards list a free SSL certificate. If you want the certificate itself to confirm the company's identity, the SSL certificates page offers OV and EV certificates, which validate the organisation behind the site.
Who manages what inside the company
- Name one owner for the domain, hosting and email, plus a deputy, so access does not depend on a single person.
- Open the hosting client account with a company email address, not an individual's.
- When someone leaves, change their mailbox password, forward their mail to a colleague and remove their access the same day.
- A VPS needs a named technical owner: EngHosting's acceptable use policy hands full responsibility for the server to the customer at delivery, and in-server management is sold as its own service.
A setup order that avoids surprises
- Register the domain in the company's name.
- Choose the email option and create the mailboxes, including shared addresses.
- Add the email DNS records: MX, SPF, DKIM and DMARC. Our guide to setting up business email walks through them and through connecting Outlook, Gmail and phones.
- Set up the website plan and confirm HTTPS works on every page.
- File the invoice with the company's records; see what an official hosting invoice contains.
The paperwork side
For a company, the supplier matters as much as the plan. On that front, EngHosting holds a registration with the Egyptian Tax Authority, bills in Egyptian pounds, takes bank transfer, InstaPay, Vodafone Cash and bank cards, and provides official invoices. If you are still deciding whether a local provider suits your company at all, start with what makes a hosting company Egyptian.
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