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As you may have noticed, we have been putiing 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 commisioned 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 yuorself in. This we belive 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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