: Hosted Exchange Server and Legal Stealing
If you know anyone who loves the internet, than you know someone who knows how to pirate things online. Everything from movies to music to games can be found online, illegally, using pirated software. It may be tempting to think about getting a program for free, but in the end you can wind up in serious trouble for doing so. Many wonder how using a hosted exchange server can be considered legal, when many different people are getting to use the benefits of Microsoft Exchange at the same time without having to pay the full costs for it.
Using a hosted exchange server is sort of similar to the businesses that rent DVD’s or games. A company that provides hosted exchange is able to purchase the product for mass use, allowing a number of different companies and individuals to use Microsoft Exchange without having to pay thousands of dollars in order to implement the program, much less the tens of thousands that it costs to get your own server. The industry term for this is “Multi-tennant”, whereby the company can spread the cost of the servers and support over many customers and make it a viable business option. So a small company could in effect use a system that costs hundreds of thousands of dollars for a small monthly fee.
A hosted exchange server is often the perfect solution for smaller companies who wish to use the program but who do not want to have to pay the price, in any number of ways, to do so.