Why Have Hosted Exchange?

An Exchange environment can be expensive to setup, support and maintain. We can give you all of the benefits without this expensive investment.

You will have no worries about daily maintenance, about hardware and software upgrades or patches, about user questions and problems, about e-mail downtime and scrambling to fix it (we guarantee you 99.95% uptime!), about tech support staff and their salaries, about hiring and managing a tech support team (how many techs can you hire from $4.99 - $29.99 per month?), or any other of the dozens of headaches that can come up!

We do it all for you and thousands of other clients every single day!

Here are some reasons why having Hosted Exchange is beneficial:

• Costs of Hosted Exchange
  
  Cost is the major reason why hosted Exchange is rapidly growing in popularity.
  
  Upfront costs are several thousand dollars for even the most basic setup, putting in-house Exchange beyond the reach of smaller businesses.
  
  Ongoing costs for in-house Exchange are also high. Either companies need to hire IT staff or pay consultants to fix each problem, adding thousands more in annual costs.

Cost Of	In-House Solution	Hosting.ca Hosted Solution
Servers/Hardware	$10000/one time - basic setup	Starting from $4.99/month
Data	$200/one time - single 500GB drive	Includes 250MB, with packages up to 4GB
Backup	$2000 for an LTO Tape Drive	Currently using CCR cluster mode
E-Mail Protection	$3799 for a Barracuda 400 Server	Included with all Exchange
Data/Internet Connection	$300/month for T1	Includes Redundant Internet Connections
Environment	$2000/month for office Rent	Includes Telco grade Data Center Environment

• Reliability of Hosted Exchange
  
  Having email and collaboration that always works is now essential to doing business - and downtime is unacceptable.
  
  In-house Exchange servers - usually in a basement or closet not designed for sensitive IT equipment - cannot match the reliability of hosted Exchange.
  
  Hosted Exchange companies like Hosting.ca manage servers in a large purpose-built datacenters with redundant backup power, redundant air conditioning and redundant internet connections. Below are the main threats to your email system:

Reliability Of	In-House Solution	Hosting.ca Hosted Solution
Servers	One mail server which everyone depends on a da	Cluster of servers - one breaks, the other keeps running
Data	Hard drives to store mail which everone depends on	Independent Storage on each server (CCR) - one disk dies, the other still runs
Backup	Manual, backup sometimes forgotten	Automatic, weekly to backup server
E-Mail Protection	Using antispam software on local computers	Protection by Barracuda Spam Cluster
Data/Internet Connection	Single data connection to the internet	Multiple internet connections
Environment	Office cabinet in room, to store servers	Tier 4 level data center (Telco grade)

• Features of Hosted Exchange
  
  Exchange is great because you can expand it with add-on features. However, this is difficult in practice with an in-house system, as each feature needs to be installed from scratch.
  
  With Hosted Exchange, all features are already installed and ready to 'turn on' if you wish to use them. Some examples of features would be: Office Communications server, voicemail to email, fax to email, etc.