Excedent Launches Small Business Email Hosting Plans Starting @ $2.99

Blacksburg, VA (August 7, 2002) - Excedent today announced the launch of its new email hosting plans specifically geared towards small businesses worldwide. New plans start at $2.99 per month and offer customers powerful features including Web-based email access (through www.webmail.us), POP3 and IMAP4, outbound SMTP, virus scanning, SPAM filtering, unlimited aliases, and an administrative panel for adding and deleting mailboxes and aliases. All plans also come with an uptime guarantee of 99.9%.

"We are excited to be able to offer our email hosting solutions to even the smallest businesses out there," commented Pat Matthews, CEO of Excedent. "Small business represents a large portion of the marketplace, both in the United States and abroad. Excedent can now offer even single person companies with an affordable, personalized email account that is protected from harmful viruses, and unsolicited emails, all housed in a world class environment rated #1 in secure hosting."

Excedent offers five different email-hosting plans to small businesses, based on the number of required mailboxes. For enterprise customers and channel partners, Excedent offers flexible, customizable Web-based and wireless email hosting solutions. For more information about any of our plans or services, please contact sales@excedent.com or give us a call at 866.EXCEDENT, X 81.

About Excedent
Excedent is a global leader in Web-based and wireless email hosting solutions. Our mission is to provide companies around the world with a secure, reliable infrastructure to facilitate effective business communication. We work with small businesses and service providers of all sizes to deploy mission critical Web-based and wireless email systems. The company is privately held and has been serving clients since October 1999.