Commercial Internet Solutions
Today in History : *1876 – Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call by saying "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you."
Commercial Internet SolutionsToday in History : *1876 – Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call by saying "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you."
CIS hosts websites and offers various email hosting solutions. We maintain 2 sets of infrastructure, our main site in East London, South Africa and backup equipment in Blue Square, Maidenhead (near London in the United Kingdom).
Our current infrastructure allows us to route up to 2Mb/s onto SAIX's backbone from East London, or up to 100Mb/s burst into LINX from London. Whatever your web hosting requirements we will be able to meet them.
All our webservers run Apache 2.0 or 2.2, we offer suexec for CGI security and use numerous methods to ensure our mod_php is as secure as possible.
Charges for hosting a commercial website start at R150pm.
CIS is able to offer a number of solutions, all of which use our (proven)*1 anti-spam solution developed and refined over the last 5 years using mainly open source technologies.
Spam/Virus/Malware filtering by the ISP eliminates spam messages flooding the user's inbox and prevents all that traffic going over our clients' internet connection.
Every 10 spam messages we prevent getting to you saves around 1c. With the current spam:email ratio this translates to a saving of 1c for every 2 valid emails of actual cost of bandwidth, this doesn't include the cost of anti-spam, anti-virus software, and the hassle and cost of keeping these up-to-date.
This tends to be the norm. Your email is received by our server and stored until you ask for it. This solution is more advisable the smaller your staff and the less email you receive. A POP3 mailbox is included in our dialup connection and is available to ADSL customers at R50pm.
You will need to dedicate a PC to act as a server (specification depends on your needs) and permanent (most likely ADSL) internet access as well as your own internet domain. The advantages of this are:
This solution should be considered when you have 5 users, and is easily justifiable after 8 users.
We have recently launched a solution that fits in between the 2 mentioned above. You will not need an onsite server, rather accounts will be stored in and authenticated from an LDAP directory for your domain.
CIS has developed a product that uniquely meets small to medium email marketing needs.
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Most service providers either use a 3rd party for email clensing (leaving them no direct control over what is included/excluded or how it's done) or attempt to do it themselves using one or more paradigms/technologies. CIS uses 8 rejection systems spread over 4 paradigms/technologies. Our solution is used in over 30 domains containing thousands of email addresses jointly receiving over 12000 emails per day.
