Thanks to the bombardment of spam that is levied towards business and consumer inboxes it is becoming increasingly difficult for legitimate marketing and transactional email messages to reach the hallowed inbox. XLHost gets questions frequently regarding email delivery and I want to share with you some best practices I have learned and free tools that you can use to ensure that the email you send from your dedicated servers gets delivered to the inbox.

First, let me welcome you to the new XLHost blog and introduce myself. I am Drew Weaver, Chief Technical Officer at XLHost. If you're a customer of XLHost we have most likely interacted at some point in the past. I have been with XLHost since 1999 and it is basically my job to oversee the operation of anything that has a blinking light and make sure that our amazing technical support staff continues to be the best in the industry. My posts will likely tend to skew towards technical matters so bare with me if my geekness shines through. (I will try to keep it in check)