SPF, which abbreviates Sender Policy Framework, is a certification system that is aimed at protecting against the so-called e-mail faking. In simple terms, it indicates sending some message from one email and making it appear to be sent from another with the objective to scam in some way the individual opening it. When the SPF protection is running for a domain name, a record that includes all of the mail servers authorized to email messages with addresses part of the domain is generated. The record is kept on all the DNS servers that route the web traffic around the world, thus they all can identify whether an e-mail message originates from a trustworthy server or not. The verification is conducted at the very first server where the e-mail goes through and in the first case the email message is forwarded, but in the second one it's discarded and it never reaches the intended recipient. Employing SPF records for your domains will stop any unwanted people from using your emails for malicious purposes.

SPF Protection in Shared Hosting

SPF protection can be enabled for every domain hosted in a shared hosting account on our cloud hosting platform with no more than a couple of mouse-clicks. The option is accessible in the Emails section of our revolutionary Hepsia Control Panel and what is needed to enable it is to select one of your domain names from a drop-down list and to enter the hostnames plus the IPv4 or IPv6 addresses of the email servers which will be certified to send messages from your email addresses. As an additional option you can even restrict the e-mails to be sent from your domain only if it includes our MX records, in other words if our servers handle the emails for it, not some third-party supplier. This solution provides you with the best degree of protection, but it is not applicable in case only your website is on our servers while your emails for the domain name are handled somewhere else. Regardless, our SPF protection service will keep your emails secure from being used for spam and scam purposes.

SPF Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The SPF protection feature is available with all Linux semi-dedicated hosting packages, so when you host your domain names in an account on our cloud hosting platform, you'll be able to use this particular service without difficulty for all your domain names. The Hepsia Control Panel, which comes as standard with the semi-dedicated accounts, offers a really easy to use interface, so you won't have to be tech-savvy in order to secure your email addresses. You'll simply need to type the hostname and the IP of each mail server that you'd like to be authorized to send e-mails from your addresses and immediately after that the updated record will be active for the domain that you have chosen. As an additional option, we'll also allow you to restrict your outgoing emails and protect your mailboxes even further by permitting emails to be sent only if the domain name in question features our MX records i.e. the emails for the domain should be taken care of on our end and not by another provider. By doing this you'll get even superior control and there will not be a chance for anybody to counterfeit your email addresses for harmful purposes.