Avoiding Digital Disaster; Florida Company Offers Free Emergency Email Backup; Service Available to Any Florida Company With Internet Domain Name.

GULF BREEZE, Fla. -- AppRiver, one of America's leading anti-spam providers, is offering its fellow Florida companies a free way to protect and preserve email traffic if their servers should succumb to natural disaster. The limited offer is available to businesses in Florida that have an internet domain name and request the service through the AppRiver.com web site - a process that takes less than 10 minutes.

"In the digital age, lost email can mean lost customers, lost revenue and lost opportunities," said Joel Smith, CTO of AppRiver. "We have seen the effects of lost email on business in our community and around the world and want to offer protection to other companies in Florida that may be especially vulnerable to hurricanes, flooding and other natural disasters."

Smith said that AppRiver's service routes incoming email messages through its servers - located in Texas, Virginia and England - where spam is filtered, viruses are held, and email messages are stored if the receiving server is down for any reason. The company will even forward email messages to a different server if the user requests.

To access the free service, businesses need only visit the AppRiver.com website and click the button marked "Free Disaster Preparedness Assistance" at the top of the screen. Users will be guided through a simple process from that point.

AppRiver, LLC is a privately held managed service provider, specializing in the elimination of spam and viruses for more than 4,000 clients worldwide. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Gulf Breeze, Florida.

NOTE TO MEDIA: At present, Hurricane Dennis is predicted to hit the Florida Panhandle as early as Sunday, July 10. Although AppRiver's Gulf Breeze headquarters could be affected, its servers are remotely located and set up for redundant operation. In the event the office is closed, customer service calls will be rerouted to AppRiver representatives working at remote locations.