Apollo Hosting Deploys CanIt-PRO Anti-Spam Software to 30,000 Customers Around the Globe

Released on = October 23, 2006, 2:12 pm

Press Release Author = Roaring Penguin Software Inc.

Industry = Telecommunications

Press Release Summary = "We love the excellent customer support that we got for
CanIt-PRO. We were using another anti-spam product and it could not handle the
load. CanIt-PRO handles our load fine! It\'s a great product and the support is
there to back it up." - Tamara Field, President, Apollo Hosting.

Press Release Body = Specializing in \'Total Solutions Hosting\' Apollo Hosting
provides everything their customers need to build, sell and market their websites.
Their web servers were processing over half a million unsolicited spam emails on a
daily basis. Apollo\'s Vice President of Operations, Don McLeman was I.T. Manager at
the time and oversaw the switch to CanIt-PRO. "We were fairly happy with our
anti-spam filter at the time, but they wanted to renegotiate the contract," McLeman
explains, "this would have been expensive for us and bad for our clients."

The hunt was on for another Spam Filter provider. McLeman jokes that "One of our
techs brought up Roaring Penguin\'s CanIt as a possible solution to our problem at
the time, but the way he described it didn\'t make it sound like the solution we were
looking for." Apollo went with another provider and quickly found that it required
too much effort. "...these products were good, but required constant checking, and
changing of settings to meet customer demands."

The \"Goldilocks Solution\" ...

Having tried products that were too expensive or too complex, Apollo was shy about
trying a third; but they knew they needed an anti-spam solution. The decision to
search for a third solution was prompted after Customer complaints and a systems
failure.

When the President Says "CanIt" , you CanIt!

The implementation of CanIt at Apollo Hosting began when company President, Tamara
Field saw CanIt in action for another company and decided to have another look at
CanIt. From there it was smooth sailing.

McLeman explains that they took full advantage of the 30 day trial period. "Once
Roaring Penguin\'s CanIt was running on our own systems we realized it was definitely
the right choice.... Before (switching to CanIt), 50% - 70% of my staffs\' time was
spent getting servers Whitelisted, etc., (and) handling Customer complaints in
regards to spam. 1.4 to 1.8 million messages a day are filtered. With a success
rate of 97%, (CanIt-PRO is) far superior to our old product."

The move was made to deploy CanIt across the board, providing customers around the
world with the most user friendly and cost effective anti-spam filter Apollo Hosting
has used. "At first people were miffed about the switch from another product to
CanIt-PRO," says McLeman, "but now I rarely, if ever, hear anything negative."

Not Too Hot, Not Too Cold, Just Right!

McLeman chose to run CanIt-PRO on Redhat Linux servers. On the client side CanIt
runs as part of Apollo\'s MailBoxCop spam and virus filter. Clients get MailBoxCop
for a small fee and it applies to all email addresses in each domain.

McLeman also appreciates the fact that there is not much tinkering required,
"Customers pretty much make all the changes they need to." Of course, Apollo
Hosting has some basic anti-spam settings in place across the board, but the browser
accessible control panel allows individual users to make their own settings.

Preserve Your Brand Integrity

Apollo Hosting was able to theme their implementation of CanIt-PRO to match their
corporate branding and colors. Branded as Mailbox Cop, a simple web page provides a
basic overview of the features available to the user and more complete user
documentation is available online as a PDF.


Web Site = http://www.apollohosting.com, http://www.roaringpenguin.com

Contact Details = Bill White
VP Sales & Marketing
Roaring Penguin Software Inc.
17 Grenfell Cres., Suite 209C
Ottawa, ON K2G 0G3 CANADA
613-231-6599
billw@roaringpenguin.com

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