Jul 28, 2004 : McLeodUSA Launches Shared Web Hosting

📅 July 28, 2004 - McLeodUSA Inc. (mcleodusa.com), an independent telecommunications services provider, announced on Wednesday that it had introduced its Preferred Advantage Hosted Exchange and shared Web Hosting packages for business customers.

The new Preferred Advantage services, says McLeodUSA, will provide businesses with fully managed messaging and data communications solutions, and lower total cost of ownership. Customers can dodge large and frequent expenditures for updating their email and calendaring software, lower expensive hardware and infrastructure needs and drastically reduce or eliminate network administration costs.
Preferred Advantage Shared Web Hosting allows customers to increase brand awareness with a unique domain name, providing a professional image when communicating with its customers, employees, suppliers and vendors. Additionally, customers can establish e-commerce sites and use the Site Builder tool to create and customize their sites.
Both Preferred Advantage Hosted Exchange and Shared Web Hosting, says McLeodUSA, allow customers to increase performance and user productivity with cost-effective managed services that are user-friendly, scalable, reliable and secure.

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