What you can send from OceanicHost mailboxes
All outbound mail goes through Mail.baby, a third-party relay switched on by default, because OceanicHost's offshore IPs have no sending reputation. Port 25 is blocked, and the email plans are for personal or legitimate small-business mail through webmail, IMAP or POP3 only. Newsletters, bulk mail and PHP mailers such as WordPress notifications are excluded.
You must use OceanicHost's nameservers to set SPF, DKIM, DMARC and MX records, and domains on Cloudflare DNS are not supported for mail. Inbox placement is not guaranteed, especially for new domains. Member newsletters for an adult site need a dedicated sending service.
OceanicHost email plans and prices
The entry plan gives 5 mailboxes and 5 GB for EUR 2.99 a month, the second 50 mailboxes and 25 GB for EUR 4.99, the third 100 mailboxes and 50 GB for EUR 6.99. All include webmail, IMAP and POP3, cPanel, SSL/TLS, virus and spam filtering, and unlimited devices and forwarding. Prices are listed in euros on the order form.
Paying a year upfront costs EUR 29.99, 59.99 and 79.99 respectively. That saves money on the smallest and largest plans, but on the 50-mailbox plan twelve months upfront cost EUR 0.11 more than twelve monthly payments.
No backups on OceanicHost email
OceanicHost does not provide a backup service on any plan, and offers no restore or recovery. A lost mailbox is gone, so run an IMAP client that keeps a local copy or back up to another service. The agreement targets 99.9% monthly network uptime, but excludes mail daemons from the SLA, so a mail outage earns no credit.
Paying for OceanicHost without ID
OceanicHost takes cards, PayPal, crypto (BTC, LTC, XMR, DASH, DOGE, USDT), PerfectMoney and wire, and converts crypto payments to Monero on receipt. No ID or KYC is required for email hosting, and support runs through tickets, in English only. Refunds are the exception: for email, only within 72 hours if OceanicHost failed to deliver the service, minus a 1% fee with a EUR 2 minimum. Servers sit in the Netherlands, Germany, Lithuania and the Seychelles.
Strengths and limits of OceanicHost
Strengths
- Low prices, EUR 2.99 a month for 5 mailboxes.
- No ID and crypto payments.
- Outbound relay switched on by default.
Limitations
- No backups.
- No newsletters, bulk mail or WordPress mail.
- OceanicHost DNS required for mail.
- Refunds only for non-delivery.
OceanicHost vs UnderHost
UnderMail, UnderHost's email service, starts at $4.95 a month, includes mail backups and sells a separate SMTP relay for campaigns. OceanicHost is cheaper and asks for no ID, but backs nothing up and bans bulk sending. For discreet contact addresses, OceanicHost is enough. For mailboxes you can't afford to lose, UnderMail is the safer pick.
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