The network server, simple easy and affordable anyone could do it.
Depending on your network platform and work load and planning, setting up and building your own server is very cost effective, in most cases its free, you cannot buy better value.

I did find myself in court over this matter a few years ago with backward companies that say its a liability, doesn’t work, and require lots of extra work; Then I opened the whole ball game to the IT community which found the reasoning behind these company extremely funny and stupid. So be advised your best IT company who provides your services will not tell you or help you in this matter.
But here is the real world sense and requirements to build your own fully functional server that rock steady and more functional than your current system, and less costly.

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Spam emails are not only annoying but costly Spam  involves nearly identical messages sent to numerous recipients by e-mail. A common synonym for spam is unsolicited bulk e-mail (UBE). Definitions of spam usually include the aspects that email is unsolicited and sent in bulk. E-mail spam has steadily grown since the early 1990′s. Botnets, networks of virus-infected computers, are used to send about 80% of spam. 

Since the cost of the spam is borne mostly by the recipient,  it is effectively postage due advertising and companies make a lot of money sending spam or creating it on forums and places where they can post on-line.
The legal status of spam varies from one jurisdiction to another. In the United States, spam was declared to be legal by the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 provided the message adheres to certain specifications. ISPs have attempted to recover the cost of spam through lawsuits against spammers, although they have been mostly unsuccessful in collecting damages despite winning in court.  

Privately owned computer resources without the owner’s permission counts as illegal under computer crime statutes in most nations. Deliberate spreading of computer viruses is also illegal in the United States and elsewhere. Thus, some common behaviour of spammers are criminal regardless of the legality of spamming per se. Even before the advent of laws specifically banning or regulating spamming, spammers were successfully prosecuted under computer fraud and abuse laws for wrongfully using others’ computers. 

The use of botnets can be perceived as theft. The spammer consumes a zombie owner’s bandwidth and resources without any cost. In addition, spam is perceived as theft of services. The receiving SMTP servers consume significant amounts of system resources dealing with this unwanted traffic. As a result, service providers have to spend large amounts of money to make their systems capable of handling these amounts of email. Such costs are inevitably passed on to the service providers’ customers 

Spammers collect e-mail addresses from chat-rooms, websites, customer lists, newsgroups, these types of media should be avoided if possible and you should not make your email address public in such places. Some spammers use special software called email harvesters which scan web pages for email addresses. Common targets for email harvesters are message boards and social networking websites.
Viruses which harvest computer users’ address books, and are sold to other spammers this may also attack Email servers which may be unprotected out of date as we found with a few of our clients. They also use a practise known as “e-mail appending” or “epending” in which they use known information about their target (such as a postal address) to search for the target’s email address. 

 Spam averages 78% of all e-mail sent; A 2004 survey estimated that lost productivity costs Internet users in the United States $21.58 billion annually and the worldwide productivity cost of spam has been estimated to be $50 billion in 2005 since then the cost of spam has grown. 

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Apache web server is one of the most widely used  website server in the world and  designed for UNIX and ported to window OS’s  Apache makes a flexible and affordable  choice for hosting websites.

Apache  can host a number of website from a single server and this is know as virtual hosting or aliases. For example the National photographer website has sub websites, so you have www. Domain.com and you can have flowers.domain.com.

You may also want to host a number of websites on the same server, so you can have two websites such as www. domainone.com and www. domaintwo.com that are both hosted on the same single server.

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For the past few days we – GTWCMT, City photography and Grafixphoto has been experiencing an issue with our out going mail services.

For those using our spam protected mail services you may have noticed that some of your email were being returned, this issue has now been resolved.

- Cause.

3rd party suppliers terminated their name server without giving notice.

Clients who have installed  our business mail servers have been updated, if you are not a managed service holder, please contact us for the changes to the systems.

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While reading around at jobs for IT Backup, Storage, Infrastructure Engineers who are paid in excess of £35,000 I find this backward job roll  and I must say it was very entertaining, it lacks motive and innovation for the solution.

One of the clear problems that come with this role and what makes it so funny is that the job role is obsolete and has been for many years.  The role of the ‘job’ is  is simple and it would sound like the person posting the job has very little intelligence as much as the company requiring such a person for a phantom role within there company.
I would think the the internal IT team or external team are creating the job as they are not innovative and stuck in a rutt, But we can see the Cost being less that the employers national insurance contributations for finance this role.
 The post reads:

Backup Service Engineer will provide the necessary knowledge, expertise, and drive to deliver a professional high quality service in the delivery of the backup solutions. The role will range from simple backup tasks, Disaster Recovery planning through data restores, up to new solution implementations and support.

Job Requirements

-To build out servers/systems as defined by the backup solution implemented.
-Assist in the support and management of existing backup systems & services as deployed.
-Comply with all current processes and procedures within Service Operations.
-Understands the business platforms and the impact that any backup service may have on the performance, availability and functionality of the systems.
-Requires a good working knowledge of industry standard backup solutions, services, software, networking and DR methodologies.
-The ability to work and communicate at all levels within Service Operation and interface with relevant Service Line teams.
-Must demonstrate a can-do/will-do attitude, is professional, strong minded, yet responsible and delivery-focused
-Ability to manage own workload and without direct supervision.

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