Webmail.us Launches Open Source-Based Webmail Service

Email hosting provider Webmail.us (www.webmail.us) demonstrated its industry presence with the its new, open-source-based webmail service that guarantees 99.99% uptime.

Built on the company's third-generation platform, the enhanced service provides small business customers with enterprise-class hosted email, an Outlook-style webmail interface, a choice of 100MB or 1GB email boxes, POP3, IMAP, dual-scanning virus protection and spam filtering, among other in-demand features.

"We are very excited about the customer responses to our upgraded services," commented Patrick Matthews, chief executive officer of Excedent Technologies and Webmail.us.

Webmail.us provides more than 3,500 small businesses with enterprise-class, email hosting - protected from spam, computer viruses and other security threats facing corporate email systems.

It provides small business customers with a powerful email service that contains all of the features found in commercial enterprise packages - all for a fraction of the cost of purchasing and managing the solution in-house.

Webmail.us manages and maintains this critical communications infrastructure, freeing up personnel resources and eliminating the need for small businesses to purchase email-related hardware, software and security services.

Small businesses can sign up for domain-based email hosting services at Webmail.us and have their accounts active within minutes. The email hosting platform is housed in redundant, carrier-grade data centers that ensure customers' privacy, uptime and security.

Webmail.us's Secure Control Panel provides small businesses with a secure control panel for online administrative access to all customer accounts. The control panel allows email administrators to add and delete mailboxes and aliases, change passwords, allocate storage space, download statistics, adjust spam filtering settings and update account information.

The third-generation Webmail.us service offering is currently available to small businesses and organizations. For single box accounts, 1GB of mailbox storage is $3.00 per user per month.

Multi-user plans have a choice between 100MB mailboxes for $1.50 per user per month and 1GB mailboxes are $3.00 per user per month. Volume pricing is available for larger enterprises and private label resellers.