Vancouver, B.C. - (Website Hosting Directory) - November 1, 2006 - One of Canada's leading web hosting companies, Canadianwebhosting.com, has begun to utilize Spam Firewall from Barracuda Networks, reporting that, as a result, up to 95% of the more than 1,000,000 messages processed by Canadianwebhosting.com each day is being blocked as spam.

Implementation of Barracuda Network's Spam Firewall was completed, in order to scan all inbound and outbound emails, after installation began in late September. All customers on the shared hosting plans will be automatically added to the email spam firewall free of charge.

Canadian Web Hosting is now processing more than 1,00,000 emails each day, blocking up to 95% of the messages as spam per day. The Barracuda Spam Firewall provides comprehensive protection against the most current email-borne threats, including:

• Anti-spam
• Anti-virus
• Anti-spoofing
• Anti-phishing
• Anti-spyware (Attachments)
• Denial of Service

Alex Zarud, Senior Systems Administrator for Canadianwebhosting.com remarked, ''Our customers are very happy with this service. They don't need to worry about getting spam in their inbox anymore. This saves time and money for our customers as well as our company. We reduce the number of support calls regarding spam problems. Spam Firewall also provides us with a way to find email issues. Its extensive log allows us to follow routing paths and find out the cause of email problems on the network.'' Mr. Zarud is confident Canadianwebhosting.com chose wisely when choosing Spam Firewall, continuing, ''Our company has definitely made the right choice in selecting this product as it is easily scalable to our growing needs.''

Founded in 1998, Canadianwebhosting.com is a privately held web hosting company providing customer support 24-hours a day, 7-days a week through toll-free telephone service, e-mail and live online chat. The Vancouver, BC based company's mission is to keep customers up to date with the ever-changing Internet and bring them the latest in hosting technologies.

Headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., Barracuda Networks is a primary vendor of enterprise software for email protection. Barracuda supplies products, including Spam Firewall, to some of the United States most prominent companies, including Adaptec, Caltrans, CBS, Georgia Institute of Technology, IBM, NASA, Pizza Hut, Union Pacific Railroad Company, and the U.S. Treasury Department. Currently, the company has eight locations worldwide.

For more information on Spam Firewall, please visit: www.barracudanetworks.com.

To learn more about Canadianwebhosting.com, please visit: www.canadianwebhosting.com.