Enterprise or Dedicated Exchange?

A comparison of the main similarities and differences between Enterprise and Dedicated Exchange hosting.

Although Enterprise starts at 50 users and Dedicated at 30 users, IHSYSTEM generally recommends the following:

Enterprise Exchange hosting best suits companies with 40 to 125 employees, due to its high resilience SAN and clustered servers, and its attractive price point.
Dedicated Exchange hosting suits companies with either specific configuration needs or more than 125 employees, when it becomes more cost-effective than Enterprise plans.

Here is a head-to-head comparison of Enterprise and Dedicated Exchange hosting:

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Enterprise or Dedicated

Features	Enterprise Exchange Hosting	Dedicated Exchange Hosting
Server configuration	Clustered servers, optimized for seamless failover and maximum uptime	Standalone server with Intel Xeon® processor
Storage technology	Highly-redundant EMC CX500 storage area network	Disks in RAID array, locally within server
Disk space	All storage aggregated, can be divided among mailboxes however users wish	Disk space depends on installed hard drives
Additional disk space	Add disk space instantly on-demand for $4.95/100 MB	Add hard drive(s) to your server, lead time of 2+ days
Mailboxes	No limits on individual mailbox size No limits on total storage space	No limits on individual mailbox size. Total storage space determined by drive capacity
Additional mailboxes	$8.95 (includes additional 200 MB disk space)	$7.00 (uses existing disk space on server)
Bandwidth	Unlimited	40GB+
Sys-admin support	2 hours migration/setup time included. No remote administration included.	5 hours migration/setup time included. 1 hour+ of monthly remote administration.
Dedicated support, 24x7
IHSYSTEM SLA for 99.9% application and 99.999% network uptime
Backup frequency	Daily	Twice per week
Off-site backup	Not available
Anti-virus included
Anti-spam included		$1.49/month per mailbox
Includes HostPilot and MyMailboxManager
Free Outlook 2003 for each mailbox
Wireless messaging option (BlackBerry, GoodLink, ActiveSync)
Archiving option