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Why Host with AppRiver?

Customers who outsource their Exchange solution to AppRiver can administer their Exchange environment in minutes instead of hours with AppRiver's innovative Shoreline™ management interface. In addition, SecureTide™ spam and virus protection is embedded for easy, effective inbound and outbound email security.

• 30-Day trial period can be set up in less than an hour and run in parallel with existing email infrastructure.
• No binding financial agreements.
• Unlimited Mailbox Storage
• Outlook; Outlook Web Access; Outlook Mobile Access; ActiveSync; Blackberry Enterprise Server and GoodLink are available.
• Unicode support for multilingual needs.

Management and Administration

• Innovative Shoreline™ interface eliminates the difficulty of installing and maintaining Microsoft Exchange.

Spam and Virus Protection

• Inbound and outbound email is protected with AppRiver's popular managed security service, SecureTide™, which eliminates up 99% of unwanted email.

Certifications and Licensing:

• Microsoft Gold Certified Partner
• Microsoft Service Provider Licensing Agreement (SPLA)
• Includes Outlook server and client licensing

Infrastructure:

• Proven Exchange environment with clustered and redundant architecture
• Clustered and redundant architecture eliminates opportunity for single point of failure
• Exchange hosting facilities are SAS 70 Audited

Operations:

• 99.9% service level agreement (SLA)
• Parallel environment available for evaluation and testing
• Microsoft certified staff onsite

Backup and Recovery

• Daily information storage backups
• Deleted mailboxes stored for 30 days
• Deleted items stored for 30 days – recoverable directly from Outlook

Exchange Hosting with AppRiver removes the complexity and difficulty of a typical installation.

An average Exchange server installation is a 10 step process:

1. Buying server-class hardware
2. Installing and configuring Windows Server
3. Installing and configuring DNS and Active Directory
4. Installing additional Exchange prerequisites (IIS)
5. Planning and installing Exchange Server
6. Managing Active Directory accounts with Exchange mailboxes
7. Handling Exchange Information Store growth
8. Securing SMTP and other protocols
9. Implementing an Exchange Backup and Recovery solution
10. Writing scripts to manage needs not available with current admin tools

By comparison, use of Exchange with AppRiver requires only one step:

1. Log into the Shoreline control panel from a web browser.

Additionally, many Hosted Exchange providers require support tickets or additional communication to accomplish the built-in features that Shoreline provides.

"AppRiver is our choice for hosted Exchange and SPAM filtering. Outstanding customer service, transparent and reasonable pricing, and easy to use administration tools made the decision to partner with AppRiver a no brainer. Keep up the good work!"

Scot Flewelling
Director of Information Technology
Interlude Home, Inc.