Most of our hosting plans allow unlimited email accounts, capped only by total storage. A few entry-level plans cap account count specifically.
Where the limit lives
For each hosting plan:
- Account count — usually unlimited; specific tiers may cap at 50, 100, etc.
- Total storage — your hosting's overall disk quota, shared between files, databases, and email.
- Per-account quota — what you set when creating each account.
The math: total storage is the cap. You can have 1 account with 50GB or 50 accounts with 1GB each, or any mix.
How to see your plan's limit
Your service detail page in Services → click your hosting → look for Plan limits or Resources.
Or check your plan's spec sheet on Marketplace — search for the plan name and look at the email-related row.
When unlimited isn't really unlimited
"Unlimited" plans still have practical limits:
- Total storage cap — disk space is finite. 5,000 email accounts averaging 100KB each = 500MB; 5,000 accounts at 1GB each = 5TB and you'd run out of plan storage.
- Inode limit — each email message is one inode. 100GB of small messages might be a million inodes; some plans cap inodes around 200,000–500,000.
- Server resources — at the extreme, hundreds of accounts hitting IMAP simultaneously could strain a shared server. Realistically, this only matters for large team setups.
For typical small business use (10–50 accounts, modest mail volume), unlimited works exactly like you'd expect.
When to think about upgrading
If you're routinely:
- Hitting per-account quota and need to raise it but have no room in total storage.
- Adding new email accounts and running into a hard plan cap.
- Seeing inode-limit warnings.
Time to upgrade your plan to one with more storage and unlimited accounts.
Forwarders count differently
Email forwarders (addresses that forward to other mailboxes) don't count against the account limit because they don't have local storage. You can have many forwarders even on plans with capped account counts.
Useful pattern: one or two real mailboxes (team@yourdomain.com) plus many forwarders (info@, sales@, support@ all forwarding to team@). Lots of public addresses, low storage cost.
Mailing lists, autoresponders, aliases
These are configurations, not accounts:
- Mailing list — a single address that fans out to multiple recipients. Counts as a forwarder, not a mailbox.
- Autoresponder — extra setting on an existing mailbox; doesn't create a new account.
- Alias — same as a forwarder; not a separate account.
So you can have unlimited variants of these even on capped-account plans.
Power-user note
For really large team setups (hundreds of users), Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 typically scales better than hosting-based email — both for reliability and for management tooling (admin consoles, shared mailboxes, distribution groups, retention policies). At that scale, the per-user pricing pays back in operational simplicity.
For our hosting email, the sweet spot is 1–50 mailboxes — small businesses, personal projects, small teams. Beyond that, look at dedicated email services.