Runbox Medium, € 39.98/yr. on Linux Emails

Medium has been added on Aug 24, 2026, Aggregate Rating (5.2 out of 10 from 14 reviews)

💳 Payment Methods :	Credit / Debit / Prepaid CardsPayPalWire TransferBitcoin
🔨 Control Panel :	[In-house]
🔧 Category :	BackupGreen HostingFile Sharing
✍️ Support Options :	EmailHelp DeskForum
🌏 Server Locations :	Norway
⚑ Targeting :	AU CA DE NO UK US
💰 Money-back guarantee :	60 days

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📄 Editorial Review

Runbox is a Norwegian private-email, domain, and web-hosting service established in 2000. The brand is operated by Runbox Solutions AS, an independent employee-owned company in Oslo, Norway. The company itself was formed on 25 March 2011, entered in Norway's central register on 18 May 2011, and holds organisation number 996 877 027. Its systems-management partner, Copyleft Solutions AS, is also a minority shareholder. This keeps the core business and its operations within Norway while adding a local technical partner.

The company specializes in paid, subscription-funded communications that do not monetize customer data. It has served more than one million accounts in over 170 countries. The service includes personal and business email, accounts for teams or families, domain registration and transfers, DNS management, web hosting, file storage, calendars, contacts, and migration tools. Current activity is evident across the 2026 blog, status history, help centre, customer-support system, environmental policy, and account documentation. The platform is a good match for customers who want Norwegian jurisdiction and do not want third-party usage tracking, commercial profiling, or scans of their messages to target promotions.

Runbox supports secure webmail plus encrypted web, POP, IMAP, and SMTP access. Contacts use CardDAV and calendars use CalDAV, while file storage supports FTP. Runbox 7 works through a normal browser and as a progressive web app on mobile devices. Thunderbird, Apple Mail, Outlook, iOS and Android mail clients, and Unix-oriented command-line clients can use the standard protocols. All current plans allow messages up to 100 MB.

The security layer combines SSL/TLS with Perfect Forward Secrecy, full-disk encryption for stored email and files, two-factor authentication, application passwords, IP-based account restrictions, virus scanning, spam filtering, and unlimited custom filters. An account can consolidate other mailboxes, create aliases, and use plus-address variants. It includes 100 aliases on Runbox-managed domains and unlimited aliases on a customer's own domain. Runbox usernames and aliases supplied by the service are retained after cancellation rather than immediately becoming available to another customer, which protects long-used email identities.

Domain hosting and basic website hosting are part of the same account. Customers can register or transfer a domain, manage DNS and contact information, keep a current registrar and only change MX records, and configure SPF, DKIM, DMARC, and DNSSEC. The web-hosting function uses cPanel and supports PHP, MySQL, and web applications. This makes the service useful for a small organization that wants its branded email, domain, DNS, and website under one login. It remains an email-focused platform, not a retail VPS or cloud-infrastructure catalogue.

Sustainability is another distinct attribute. Email infrastructure runs on certified 100% renewable electricity, predominantly Norwegian hydropower, alongside equipment reuse and recycling, remote-first operations, and free subscriptions for qualifying environmental nonprofits. Runbox targets a carbon-negative operational footprint. Customers who consider location, privacy, and environmental impact together will find this a differentiated email service; buyers whose principal requirement is high-resource server hosting should focus on its email and modest web-hosting scope before choosing it.