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Hosted Exchange or Web Mail?

Hosted Exchange

Hosted Exchange is what hosting providers usually call their Microsoft Exchange Email Hosting service. Hosted exchange is a premium service offered by email hosting providers such as Fasthost, Rackspace, simplymailsolutions etc. Hosted exchange runs on the Microsoft Exchange server (2007 is the current version but 2010 is soon being released) and have Outlook as the email client.

Microsoft Outlook lets you send and receive emails, but it also lets you share calendars, folders, tasks and contacts. Outlook have desktop, browser and mobile access giving you a 24/7/365 connection – whether you are working in the office, from home or out and about.

Web Mail

Web Mail requires an internet connection and thus give you access to emails, calendars, contacts and task lists – anytime and anywhere. This is also its major downside. You need an internet connection and a web browser.

Hosted exchang and Web mail – So Whats the Difference?

Most email hosting providers offer both hosted exchange and web mail email solutions. The major difference between hosted exchange and web mail is with web mail you need to have an internet connection with a web browser. Except for this you have to determine what is most suitable for your needs.

Other differences are you cannot collaborate with tasks among users in web mail, you cannot share contacts in web mail and you cannot delegate or amend events in your calendar in web mail.

The main difference as mentioned is that web mail is a budget version of hosted exchange and web mail is usually the perfect solution for individuals to small businesses.

Hosted VOIP Pbx Solution | Bns Hosting

Are you still using the old analog PABX? It’s time to switch over and go digital!

While the biggest savings come from lower toll charges of a digital PABX, most clients find other features such as: Voice Mail Box, easy to configure IVR (Integrated Voice Response System), and user mobility as among some of the unbeatable features that old analogue PBX can not offer.

Voice mail box allows your callers to leave you their name, number and message when they call you after office hours. You can then retrieve the voice mail either from your handset, or have it sent to your email!

IVR allows you to service common caller queries by programming voice responses to serve them. For example, the IVR system can say ” Press 9 to find out our great offers for the day!” and when the caller presses “9?, a pre-recorded message will tirelessly deliver your latest product promotions!

Mobility allows you and your staff to travel anywhere with their handsets, plug it to the internet, and all calls to the same extension will ALWAYS go to that handset! Your calls follow you wherever you go! Your branches are now local extensions…and hence, the savings in toll charges!

BNS offers two solutions for upgrading your old PBX. One is to help you deploy an inhouse system, and the other is to offer a hosted VoIP/PBX solution. The hosted solution would help get you up and running without worrying about the maintenance of your pabx.

Other features include Auto-Attendant, Call Distribution, Call Parking, Call Forwarding, Music-on-Hold, Ring-All, Extension groups and many more! Our VOIP/PABX solution is suitable for call centers, information centers and the like.

For more information, please send us an email at team[at]bnshosting.net. Or visit the link http://www.bnshosting.net/?p=359 for more information.

All Free Web Hosting Sites Make Money From Hosted Sites

When it comes to playing a business on the internet, many companies do not want to share their internet name with anyone. However, when getting started online with a free web hosting offer, in most instances that is what will happen. Since most companies that offer free web hosting do not do so out of the goodness of their heart, it must be understood that someone is paying for the servers on which the information is stored as well as keeping the sites on their service up and running.

For most personal and small business use of free web hosting, this is entirely acceptable. The domain name, usually of the site owner’s choosing is often listed first in the name, with the name of the free web hosting company second in the name used to access the site. For personal use, it only adds to the name typed in to access the site, but for businesses, it can be hard for customers to remember, unless you can include the option to bookmark the site somewhere on the landing page of the business website.

How the free web hosting companies make their money may vary slightly, but in most instances, it is from ads placed on the site by third-party businesses. Many times the ads are not obvious and are only present if someone clicks on a banner or a small button, but the companies sponsoring these ads pay every time a visitor heads off to their site, enabling the free web hosting services to continue to host the sites.

Choose Free Services Will Appropriate Caution

With many of the free web hosting services, the site owner has little or no control over the type of ads that will appear on the site. While most allow the service user to post their own ads, they will also place ads from other businesses at random on the site and the type of web site you host may not be amenable to all types of advertising. Companies and individuals who do not want other advertisers to show up on their site may want to look into some of the cheap web hosting companies that allow them to own their own slice of cyberspace.

For families wanting a personal web site on which to post information about births, family reunions and other personal information, free web hosting may be the best option. They can keep all members of the family updated on what is going on without needing to pay to host their web site, including pictures. Many also offer blogs where any member of the family can add to the information included on the free web hosting site.