With rising volume of spam e-mails that drain a substantial amount of companies financial resources and eat bandwidth, outsourced hosted server could give them freedom from this headache and increase their productivity.

Internet is a necessity and an inevitable part of day-to-day activities but when it becomes a source of unsolicited junk e-mails or spam, then it could be very annoying and distressful to both the network administrators and those who own or manage a company.

The world wide web continues to spread out and becomes available to more and more people – young and old – spam follows this spread out trend resulting in increasing time and finansial resouces spend on filtering junk mail from legitimate mails. Uderestimating the cost of removing junk e-mails is very common – people tend to believe that removing a spam e-mail just takes a couple of seconds. However, suddenly unwanted e-mails appear in huge numbers on a daily basis consuming valuable time and user’s concentration.

Unwanted e-mails do not just play the role of being annoying, they have a major side effect on the performance of an entire organisation ocuupying network and abusing bandwidth. Every unsolicited message delivered uses bandwidth and in some cases spam account for nearly 50% of the entire network.

Organisations – from big corporations with internal dedicated department handling IT security to small and medium companies, that only use a small share of the yearly budget on online security – are suffering from a slow and unproductive network Furthermore, governments at all levels – local and regional – have tried to implement legislation aimed at spammers, unfortunately this has not helped fight spam sufficiently as spammers are able to continue their criminal activities using the latest and most advanced technologies.

Spam e-mailers have formed their own underground community equipped with networks of hosted computers and innovative attack methods. Analysis shows that spam drain both time and financial resources and organisations face security issues because they expose their internal network to e.g. malware, spyware and trojahns.

Such security threats stress the need to implement advanced unwanted detecting on hosted email servers to decrease the cost of operating and protecting the internal network from collapse. Businesses can better guard themselves against online threats by hiring services of outsourced hosted servers.

One strong feature of employing outsourced hosted server is time saving as companies do not need to be worry about hardware/software integration and maintenance of installed equipments. Professional personnel monitor their systems day and night and makes sure every single unwanted mail is blocked and quarantined passing only legitimate e-mails to the the end users’ inbox.

The hassle of clearing user inbox everyday rests with the outsourced hosted server, which also provides valuable information that makes the process understandable to less tech-friendly users.

Author:Martin Faklor