Local users can set their email clients to check for email every thirty minutes to an hour without causing Mercury32 to dial-up. At the next scheduled connect time, Mercury will launch the dial-up and upload and download all mail. With a dozen local users, this can cut down the number of daily calls from thirty or forty to five or six, while making it effortless for local users to stay abreast of their email. You can rent space on a virtual web host for a reasonable flat fee with adequate storage and data transfer for a small web site. As your site grows, you may be subject to charges for additional disk space beyond the standard allotment and for additional bandwidth, should your site traffic grow beyond the standard allotment.
Web hosts vary considerably in what they consider standard allotments and base fees, so shop around.
How to Use a URL Forwarding Service An alternative to renting a virtual server from a web host is to use a URL forwarding service. This allows you to share a web site on a less expensive, or even free, web hosting service. Sometimes the URL forwarding service comes with a complete, but brief, templated single-page web site where you can place your own URL forwarding the browser to your complete web site. Click the links to learn more about the SOHOinter.net web site or to learn more about Six Sigma Networks and its services . That's just about it.