Surely it’s more efficient to manage our own email servers?

Not at all. Managing an email and spam/virus server in house requires additional resources that could be better employed on other work. Forefront Online will require significantly less admin time than any other software/hardware solution.

Will our emails be less secure on Microsoft servers?

Since most appliances require a connection to vendors’ operations centres via the internet, not only is there room for the vendors to view email, any hacker on the internet has the ability to view email as well! Our servers are more secure than most – and you can always choose not to have your emails stored on our servers.

Another point worth noting is that mail records will point to our global datacenter network – your IP address is masked. By removing any reference to your organisation’s in-house mail servers, you are reducing the risk of your network being brought down by buffer overflows, DoS, and other critical attacks.

How reliable is the service?

Try 99.999% uptime! Forefront Online offers a worldwide distributed network of redundant datacenters with global load balancing – and we have never gone down.

What are the set-up costs?

A minimal one-off set up fee of just £100. Whereas the cost of setting up an in-house appliance solution can be significant – network infrastructure preparations, setup and training all add up quickly. All Forefront Online asks of you is to change an MX record.

What about maintenance costs?

Compared to hosting an appliance in-house, Forefront Online is extremely cost-effective. Your monthly costs are agreed in advance, and you don’t have to deal with product upgrades or upgrading to a bigger server as your business grows. EHS will keep your organisation’s services running 99.99% of the time and provide additional services to you without any additional administration and network burden.

How long is the migration period?

Contact us now and we’ll have you up and running within five working days ­– with no disruption to service, no hassle at all.

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