Web Hosting Provider Intermedia.NET Announces Private Label SharePoint Hosting

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Monday, October 9, 2006; 01:22 AM

Intermedia.NET, the Gold Certified global leader in private label Exchange hosting, announced that it now offers resellers the ability to sell Microsoft SharePoint hosting as part of its private label Exchange service. Resellers can profit from the growing popularity of SharePoint by selling their customers the hosted online collaboration tool, completely under their own brand.

The base package for resellers includes 200 MB of disk space for just $7.00 per month as a wholesale rate. Private label resellers then mark up this price for their end customers, and keep 100% of the difference, which allows for significant profit margins.

"Together with our new 500 MB, 1 GB and 2 GB mailbox sizes, the addition of SharePoint hosting to our Private Label Exchange Hosting program extends our lead in this market," said Serguei Sofinski, CEO of Intermedia.NET.

Added Sofinski, "Since launching instant, free signup earlier this year, around 90% of all new resellers joining a private label Exchange hosting solution have chosen Intermedia.NET, thanks to our EMC SAN-based, clustered server environment. No other private label Exchange provider can come close to this level of robustness or reliability."

Microsoft SharePoint creates an online space where employees can log in and share information and documents from any place at any time. Version-control is no longer a problem with SharePoint, because changes are continuously saved to the SharePoint server as they’re being made. Further, SharePoint allows team members to send messages through a chat-like program in order to encourage true employee collaboration.

Intermedia.NET resellers can add hosted SharePoint to their Private Label Exchange account for just $7.00 per month and a one-time setup fee of $15.00. They can then mark up the price for their own customers and keep the difference. If clients need more space than the 200 MB included, extra storage can be purchased in 100 MB increments for $4.00 per month.

Intermedia.NET’s Private Label Exchange Hosting allows IT resellers and Web hosts immediate access into the growing Exchange market without spending $100,000 or more upfront on hardware, software, staff and training to deploy an in-house Exchange offering. With $5 million invested in our Exchange environment, Intermedia.NET Private Label customers have the advantage of reselling the world’s leading Exchange solution, along with the ability to offer customers substantial disk space at reasonable prices, while still making a significant profit.

Resellers sign up online, with no setup fee. Once registered, they can immediately resell an enterprise-class hosted Exchange offering, running on state-of-the-art SAN technology in multiple tier-1 data centers, with sophisticated backup and recovery strategies.

Because the entire offering is 100% rebrandable, our customers’ customers will never realize it is Intermedia.NET providing service. The service includes an advanced control panel they can customize with colors, fonts and their own logo, plus full support documentation and a suite of rebrandable marketing materials to jumpstart sales.

Resellers pay Intermedia.NET a low wholesale fee, from $7.50 for each mailbox, which resellers can then mark up to whatever price their customers will pay. This means that resellers control retail prices and define their own profit margins. Hosted BlackBerry, Good Mobile Messaging, ActiveSync, enhanced anti-spam, archiving and other services are also available to resell on the same wholesale basis.

Resellers provide level one technical support to end customers, which ensures they never find out that Intermedia.NET exists, with Intermedia.NET supplying complete level two support, 24x7, to resellers if needed. Private Label Exchange Hosting also includes tools – also 100% rebrandable – that let resellers provision accounts and bill their customers using their own logo and brand.

Other benefits to private-labeling Intermedia.NET’s Exchange hosting include free system upgrades, maintenance and updates, strategic advice on branding and a dedicated account manager familiar with a reseller’s specific concerns.

The company offers a wide variety of Exchange hosting and Web hosting plans, from the smallest businesses to substantial mid-sized organizations. Intermedia.NET retail hosted Exchange plans start at $9.95 per month for each mailbox. For further details on our private label exchange hosting, please visit www.intermedia.net/privatelabel.

Intermedia.NET (www.intermedia.net) is the US leader in Exchange hosting and Web hosting for small and medium businesses. A Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, we are committed to best-in-class 24x7 service. With three locations around the world, Intermedia.NET offers its growing customer base an outstanding technical team, guaranteed service levels, and ease of management through its unmatched HostPilot® Control Panel.