Comparison of Professional Email and Barracuda email - hosting.com

This article provides a side-by-side feature comparison between Professional Email provided by hosting.com and Barracuda.

Feature comparisons

The following tables compare features between email hosting from Professional Email and Barracuda Email.

Spam, security, and deliverability features

Feature	Professional Email	Barracuda Email
Inbound Spam and virus protection	Yes	Yes
Outbound Spam and virus protection	Yes	Yes
Data encryption	Yes - All data at rest is encrypted using AES 256 encryption. All traffic in transit is encrypted using TLS 1.2.	Yes
Spoofing prevention	Yes	Yes
Reputation loss and black-listing prevention	Yes	Yes
IP and content-based filtering	Yes - Advanced spam filters automatically identify and block spammy content.	Yes
Recipient filtering	Yes - Users can block specific domains and email accounts.	Yes
RBL and DNSBL support	Yes	Yes
Reverse DNS blocking	Yes	Yes
URL pattern and category blocking	Yes	Yes
TLS encryption policy	Yes	Yes
SPF support	Yes	Yes
Triple-layer virus blocking	Yes	Yes
Personal allow/block lists	Yes - Users can create custom blocklists and block specific email accounts and domains.	Yes
Guaranteed email deliverability	Yes - 100% of our IP addresses are whitelisted, ensuring guaranteed email deliverability.	No
Guaranteed email uptime	Yes - We offer an uptime of >99.9% ensuring your email service is never down.	No
High data durability and reliability	Yes - We offer 99.999999999% of data durability and 99.99% availability for stored data.	No
Superior disaster recovery mechanisms	Yes - We provide 3-way data replication. All data is replicated across multiple zones and regions, ensuring high recovery capabilities.	No
High redundancy	Yes - We maintain n+3 redundancy on each component and service across multiple datacenters. Any failure of any device, datacenter, or service does not cause downtime.	No
Custom DKIM support	Yes	No

Usability features

Feature	Professional Email	Barracuda Email
Rich webmail with integrated calendar and contacts	Yes	No
Dedicated mobile apps with advanced email functionality	Yes	No
Features to improve productivity and email response rates: Email templates Read receipts Follow-up reminders Scheduled sending	Yes	No
Advanced features: Contact groups Priority inbox Rich signature builder Send emails as alias Dark theme Advanced search with extensive filter criteria	Yes	No
Multi-account support with ability to add personal and professional email accounts	Yes	No
Catchall accounts	Yes	No
Internal forwarder accounts	Yes	No