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Technical features at a glance

Worry-free administration of MS Exchange
There's no need for you to worry about administration because we manage it for you. While you and your colleagues take care of driving your business forward, we take care of server maintenance and updating. You also benefit from the latest in security technology — all important security updates are taken care of meaning your data is protected against loss or malfunction. Your connection to the server is simple via Microsoft Outlook. This allows you to access your emails, contacts and appointments from all your devices via apps and the browser anytime, anywhere.

You can easily connect both existing and new email accounts with the Hosted Exchange email server in just a few clicks. Since the IONOS Exchange solution is a flexible and easily scalable product, you can add more email accounts and mailboxes at any time. As your business grows, your hosted Microsoft Exchange environment grows with you. All you need to do is purchase another license and add it to your existing account. This way, you can ensure in the long run that every new employee receives their own email address and an individual domain.

Exchange native data protection
We uses Exchange native data protection architecture. This design deploys multiple copies of the mailbox database on multiple servers, providing you with high availability, fast failover time, and disaster recovery.
No single point of failure
Each mailbox database has 4 copies, 2 in each data center. All copies remain isolated, so there’s never just one single point of failure.
High availability setup

Three databases run in an active-passive, high availability setup. One database remains active, while the 2 passive databases contain up-to-date copies which become active during fast failover.
Recovery mechanism
The 4th database is configured as a lagged copy, based on a rolling time point scheduled 7 days later. This allows for effective platform-level recovery in the event of catastrophic logical corruption.
No traditional backups needed
The platform design used in combination with other Exchange features (which retain deleted items / mailboxes for specific time periods), makes traditional point-in-time backups unnecessary.

Microsoft Preferred Architecture
The design of the platform closely follows the Microsoft Preferred Architecture for Exchange, which is the best practice recommendation for optimum deployments.
Georedundant setup
Microsoft Preferred Architecture provides a highly available, fully georedundant setup within the data center. It also ensures site resilience between 2 redundant data centers and fast failover times.
Multiple domain controllers
Each data center deploys multiple domain controllers so that there are local and site redundancies in the event of server or site failure.
BGP routing
Client traffic is split using BGP routing between multiple load balancers within both data centers. This traffic is then load balanced onto Exchange Mailbox Servers with per-service health checks.
Professional administrative access

The active directory is configured and managed using a tiered administrative model that meets Microsoft Privileged Access best practices.

High density storage servers
The platform is built using Dell R740XD2 high density storage servers using a design that has been vendor certified prior to purchase.
Tiered storage mechanism (MCDB)
A new tiered storage mechanism (MCDB) built into Exchange 2019 is used on the platform. It allows the combined use of SSD and HDD storage to improve the user experience, making login, search, and email access more user-friendly.
Faster searches and logins
Boost searches and logins by up to 50%. The hardware features a fast layer of tiered storage featuring multiple SSD architectures on each mailbox server.

Always up to date
All security patches are applied as soon as they are available.
24/7 platform monitoring
The operations team monitors the platform around the clock.