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In-House Solution VS PacHosting Hosted Exchange
Cost is the primary reason why hosted Exchange is rapidly growing in popularity. Several thousand dollars of upfront costs for basic setup, high ongoing costs to hire IT staff or pay consultants, In-house solution is expensive to buy and run. PacHosting Hosted Exchange enables business better communicate with partners and customers, and boosts employee productivity without the high cost. Small to medium companies as well as large corporations are switching to PacHosting Hosted Exchange service. | In-house Solution | 
PacHosting Hosted Exchange Plus+ |
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| Cost | ||
| Cost of software | Exchange 2010 Server license Bandwidth |
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| Cost of hardware | Front-end server Exchange server hardware Backup Domain Controller |
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| Deployment | Average 30 days | Instant |
| Administration time for deployment & maintenance |  |
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| IT resources | Dedicated and technical. Need to employ IT Experts. | All system management is performed by PacHosting. |
| Reliability & Maintenance | ||
| 24 x 7 maintenance & support | Unlikely | 24 Hours Hotline Technical Support |
| Contract guaranteeing email 'uptime' | Unlikely | 99.99% Service Uptime Guarantee |
| Servers | One server with the risk of single point of failure | Redundant Servers & Datacenters with Auto Failover The others take over if one stop working |
| Regular Backup | Manual, often slips due to time pressures | Automatic & Frequent |
| Data Storage | All emails depend on one or two hard disks | Storage Area Network (SAN) Large clusters of drives which automatically share workload if one fails |
| Data Connection | Single data line to the internet | Direct Multiple Connections to Hong Kong (HKIX), China Telecom, China Netcom & International |
| Security | ||
| Email Security | Insufficient updates | Continuous 24 x 7 updates |
| Anti-virus, Anti-spam | Constant effort to combat viruses and spam | Protected by Barracuda Anti Spam Firewall – 12 defense layers Spam /Virus Protection |
