PolarisMail

Infobox Website
name = PolarisMail Inc
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caption = PolarisMail
url = http://www.polarismail.com/, https://www.polarismail.com
commercial = yes
type = Business E-mail Hosting
registration = Yes
owner = PolarisMail Inc
launch date = March 2003
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revenue =

PolarisMail offers for-fee E-mail Hosting to small, medium and large businesses. E-mail accounts come with several features, including: POP3, IMAP and SMTP access, Spam and Virus protection, e-mail forwarding, e-mail extensions, vacation messages and an Ajax based Webmail interface.

Although it is a young company, PolarisMail has managed to attract and maintain its clients by providing a very reliable service [ [http://www.realmetrics.com/r/email-hosting RealMetrics e-mail monitoring] ]

PolarisMail was founded by George Breahna in 2003 and is based in Montreal, Canada. The servers are colocated in a Peer1 Networks [ [http://www.peer1.com Peer1 Networks] ] datacenter also located in Montreal.

ervices

E-Mail hosting

PolarisMail offers business e-mail hosting for companies of all sizes. The standard service comes with a 100% uptime guarantee, 24/7 support, unlimited storage and an advanced Spam and Virus filter.

Newsletter service

PolarisMail offers the possibility to keep in touch with your users through its Newsletter service.

E-Mail relaying service

PolarisMail offers the possibility to customers to relay e-mail messages through its servers. This service offers volumes of up to 10 million e-mails per day.

Private labeling

Customers of PolarisMail can customize all interfaces visible to the end-user with their own logo and name. This feature is offered free of charge.

Infrastructure

PolarisMail manages a very high service uptime due to its fully redundant and load balanced infrastructure. The servers are located in a datacenter fitted with redundant climate control systems, backup UPS and a backup diesel generator. The servers are equipped with RAID storage and redundant power supplies from SuperMicro. Furthermore, there are several fail-over connections to the Internet

Within the internal network, the e-mail services are provided by a load-balanced cluster of servers which ensure the uptime of a service despite a server being offline.

With all these provisions PolarisMail has maintained an impeccable service record, often surpassing many bigger competitors. For the first half of 2008 PolarisMail averaged an uptime of 99.9995% which translate to roughly 77 seconds of downtime. [ [http://www.realmetrics.com/r/email-hosting RealMetrics e-mail monitoring] ]

ee also

*Comparison of webmail providers
*Redundancy

References

External links

* [http://www.polarismail.com/ Official site]