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Most of the start ups and SME companies resort to the third party servers to stay away from the upfront cost incurred towards having a dedicated server. They know to have a dedicated server they need to outlay a good amount of budget to manage maintain it. This needs a dedicated person to manage it and security solutions in order to keep it intrusion and threat free. The rising costs discourage them to own a server but the flip side is that they open their data base and critical information if they outsource a server. If by change the server is down they do not keep their business continuity intact and if the information is leaked they suffer huge dollar in a long run and at times they become liable to the judiciary.

In this write up, I would like to highlight the merit of a dedicated affordable server from the cost and performance perspective. The reference is about Plustek MFA1000S, which is absolutely targeted at the SME organizations.

What is MFA1000S?

MFA1000s is a complete multi server solution focused at the SME companies to run their critical applications on day to day basis. It reduces cost to the company by bringing in the entire security solutions integrated into this platform.

How MFA1000S is an all-in-one solution?

The USP of MFA1000S is that it is not a single server but a multiple servers with in one chassis. It might look deceptive but the compact design of the multi server can be used as a Web Server, FTP Server, Firewall Server, DHCP Server, DNS Server, NAT Server, Samba server, VoIP Server, Printer Server and Mail Server. Its inbuilt antivirus, firewall, anti-spam mechanisms offer stable connectivity and secure mail and messaging services.

What is the USP of MFA1000S?

Easily fitted to the bill of SMEs, it provides a host of applications. First and foremost is it comes with FTP solution, using which the customer can upload 100 of websites with upto 500 pages of content.

They can run e-Service applications like e-paper, shopping cart, etc., for the benefit of their clients. It comes with Moodle for the e-learning. This comes as handy for academies. If the organization is a retail chain or consumer facing organization, they can upload the commodities available in visual format. There is no constrains of storage space compared to the free servers or ISP servers, you have constrains of space and you need to pay a good amount as annual renewal fee.

MFA1000s, once purchased, does not require any renewal fee for the life time. As long as it is active, you need not worry about patches or updates. Automatically, through web, the server keeps on getting updates.

Acting as a mail server, it allows to open 500 mail accounts with a considerable space for each of the account as the server comes with 1.5 TB of space unlike other third party service providers (paid or free) who provide very marginal space – may be up to 1GB.

Since MFA1000S comes with all the security protocols l, it could prevent any intrusion and hacking. Its simple user interface allows it to be easily installed and managed without the help of any expert. The user does not need any formal training. With a modicum of knowledge s/he can manage it for life time.

If you save a lot in the CAPEX and OPEX from MFA100s, why would you go for free servers or ISP Hosting services? So think prudently, you will arrive at a solution.