Reduce Capital Expenditures with Hosted Email
Implementing an email service in-house requires capital hardware expenditures including:
- Hardware and software licenses for redundant email, anti-spam and anti-virus servers
- Additional web and application servers for web-based email
- Redundant (mirrored or RAID) storage for mailboxes, with sufficient capacity to meet near-term storage requirements
In addition, you will need the necessary data center infrastructure, including network bandwidth, power supply and rack space as well as monitoring/management software and security software and services.
Outsourcing email eliminates up-front capital expenditures for xcomputer hardware; you only pay a fixed service fee based on the number of mailboxes and features you need.
Subscribers expect email with bundled service packages. However, email may not be one of your core competencies. Running a highly available email service requires a good deal of dedicated staff time, including: Experienced email administrator(s) to set up and maintain the system Technical support staff to handle customer questions about email service Storage and system administrators to handle the infrastructure The fully-loaded costs of these personnel can be significant. Even if you are using existing staff to perform these functions, you will be diverting their time from primary business job functions.
If you choose to outsource email, the cost of email services is known, fixed, and predictable. It is also very affordable when compared with the true cost of providing email service in-house. It can be difficult to determine the actual costs of providing email service in-house. The Total Cost of Ownership includes:
- Up-front capital expenditures on infrastructure, service and storage
- Ongoing server and storage upgrades to support growing usage/volumes of data
- Ongoing staff costs in server, storage and email administration
- Ongoing staff costs in technical support
With outsourced email, your true costs are known and fixed. |
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We have a very large nationally distributed network infrastructure, allowing us to expand to our customers needs. Our Data Center Specs- high availability and utilization, off site back up and recovery.
- Network Infrastructure
- Located in a main Telco Hotel vault
- High level security
- Raised flooring
- Climate-control
- Dual power feeds backed up with UPS, Rectifiers, Batteries and Generator
- Fire suppression system
- Multiple redundant connections to major backbones such as Verio, Williams, UUNET, Level3, Genuity, Sprint and Verizon.
- Cisco routers and switches
- Staffed 24x7 by qualified system administrators and engineers.
- All servers are secured in a state of the art Smart POP; monitored by both on hand technicians, IP cameras and door security via Hand geometry reader
- OC3C connections are physically diverse and Sonet protected
- Industry-standard SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) providing round-the-clock monitoring of all hardware, including routers, switches, UPS systems, and servers.
- Monitors for power, environmental factors (such as temperature and humidity), generator status, and network connectivity.
- In both centers, all critical services/ports of our servers are monitored, including FTP, HTTP, SMTP, HTTPS, SSH and POP3
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Colocating the server gives you the greatest flexibility. You get to choose the hardware configuration of the server and the software that goes on it. The hosting company maintains the connection to the Internet and deals with environmental details such as uninterruptible power supplies (UPSs), fire controls, and air conditioning. On the other hand, you're responsible for that server's upkeep. |
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A dedicated server lets you lease an entire server not shared with anyone. Perfect for large websites, email systems or business applications that are large in size of require high levels of security or compliance.
Lower Costs
Leasing a dedicated server has a LCO (lower cost of ownership) than buying a server. Typically included with your dedicated server is the cost of all the overhead including electricity, security, back-up power and monitoring services. In addition all servers are stored at World Class Data Centers with fire supression, raised floors, security entry and more, something that can be costly for businesses to do inhouse if not already setup.
More Flexible
Having the entire server to yourself gives you much more flexibilty in the software applications you can run, operating system and the amount of usuage you can have on the machine. Partition it into several VPS (Virtual Private Servers) to run several business programs like email, website, billing, etc.
In some cases a dedicated server can offer less overhead and a larger return on investment. Our dedicated servers are located nationwide and provid redundant power sources and HVAC systems. In contrast to collocation, the server hardware is owned by us so your business does not have to cover the upfront costs for the hardware and infrastructure. |
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A virtual private server (VPS) is a method of partitioning a physical server computer into multiple servers such that each has the appearance and capabilities of running on its own dedicated machine. Each virtual server can run its own full-fledged operating system, and each server can be independently rebooted. Ideal for companies that wish to have multiple dedicated servers for a fraction of the price. |
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A shared web hosting service refers to a service where your site is held securly on one of our many servers. Each site is alotted it's own section on the server where is is accessable by you and the administrators. This is generally the most economical option for hosting as it offers lots of space for many sites so the overall cost of server maintenance is shared among all the sites.
Santa Clarita Web Services' Linux plans give you the security and performance of Red Hat Enterprise 5.0 Linux along with PHP and Ruby on Rails support. With ample disk space and monthly transfer, these plans are ideal for your personal or development website.
- Running Red Hat Enterprise 5.0
- Ruby on Rails Support
- PHP, Perl, Python, and CGI Support
- MySQL 5 Database
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