Webhosting1st.com has invested over a million dollars in its spam and virus filtering technology, and is the only major hosting service to offer an enterprise grade filter on all accounts, free of charge. The reason is simple: the amount of SPAM being transmitted has reached record levels, and can cripple the ability of a website owner to process legitimate email. Since our goal is our customers’ success – SPAM becomes our problem, regardless of its origin.

Stopping SPAM isn’t easy. We start with the standard filters and flags that identify typical unsolicited emails – which is about the level that most other providers go to, if they offer SPAM protection at all. However, most savvy SPAMers have elevated the practice of defeating filters to an art form. That’s where we’re different. We actually have a 24x7 team that monitors email activity on over one million “dummy” or “probe” email accounts. Since these accounts are bogus, ALL email received by them is flagged as SPAM. We then write new filters in real time to block the same unsolicited message from being delivered to any of our real customers email boxes.

Through Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam™, multi-layered spam protection leverages over 17 different filtering technologies, including spam signatures, heuristics, reputation filters, language identification,and many proprietary methods while minimizing false positives (99.9999% accuracy rate). An amazing 80% of all email traffic sent to website owners is SPAM. Imagine how much time and effort the filter has saved our customers.