What is the presserCORE Mail Cloud, and What is its Objective.
As you may have noticed, we have been putting up quite a few posts regarding our new email cloud initative. This service is an attempt to break away from traditional email service offerings, with an emphasis on reducing costs and improving reliability (with regards to mail delivery and service consistency).
Traditional mail systems usually comprise of a single server serving email to multiple users. In order to ensure the reliability of the service, rack space in large data centres with redundant power supplies are commissioned to ensure the service is reliable. This
model has worked for many other online services as well, but what if you could make the service redundant in other ways? What if you could “spread your eggs over many different baskets”, so to speak?
The presserCORE Mail Cloud service aims to do just that. The mail service is spread over several servers, so if one server goes down the service continues to run. No more need for expensive infrastructure, and you don’t have to worry about power failures and connectivity downtime breaking your service. Suddenly, it becomes possible to run a business mail service over a DSL line with our mail cloud servers supporting your infrastructure.
Many of the concepts we use are not necessarily new, and many of the technologies that we are experimenting with have already been used by other service providers and amateurs with home-based DSL servers. However, we feel it is important to improve on and fine-tune many of these practices. These technologies will allow small businesses to get up and running (at a much lower cost and more efficiently) than with traditional service offerings, even more so as you look at developing countries all around the world.
Many first-world players in the IT industry are preparing themselves to target Africa for future developments and expansion, but many of them are going in expecting first-world infrastructure in a continent that mostly only offers third-world facilities. It is therefore important to adapt and take advantage of the environment that you would find yourself in. This we believe is key to breaking into and providing services in Africa effectively and also to the rest of the world as our products provide competitive, cost-effective and reliable services.
We hope this article has given you a good understanding of what we hope to achieve as a company. We hope to post more technically detailed articles here soon, as well as information on how to integrate your existing mail infrastructure with our mail cloud.
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Interesting article, but DSL based services? Come now, you don’t really expect me (as a business owner) to entrust my mail to something as unreliable as DSL.
I fail to see how it could work.
Hi Arujo1, thanks for taking the time to read this post.
Like the article says, the reliability of our services is not tied into how reliable the Internet medium you are using is. If that were the case, then we would just be wanting to re-invent the wheel, so to speak.
By having all services interlinked and interdependent, we can get to a point where services are just shifted around as required on the “mail cloud environment”. Not being dependent on any one server or Internet connection can offer a very powerful and reliable service (and obviously not just for mail, but a host of other services too).