In-house Solution vs MailRoute Hosted Service – MailRoute Help Center

MailRoute Benefits In-house Solution

MailRoute Benefits	In-house Solution
99.999% uptime guaranteed	Limited uptime guarantee
3x redundancy – no single point of failure	Single point of failure
90+% reduction in traffic on your server, 99% of which is spam	In-house servers handle 100% of mail traffic
Reduce bandwidth	Paying for bandwidth to manage useless and dangerous email
Lower CPU and memory resource needs	Paying high CPU
Mailbagging and Disaster Recovery included	Bounced mail when your servers go down
100% cost-free Customer Support	Expensive, unavailable support from manufacturer
60 seconds to setup account; No hardware or software to install	Time to setup and test in-house
Meets industry compliance standards	Must navigate industry standards alone
Improves employee productivity; extra hands in IT	Expensive in-house labor to manage email filtering hardware/software
No need for costly upgrade and maintenance	Regular maintenance, upgrades and security patches
Low entry cost	Expensive systems that become obsolete
Risk-free implementation; platform-agnostic	Must commit to buying multiple pieces
Ongoing development of new features	Filters lose their efficacy over time
MailRoute is never obsolete	Hardware and software end-of-life