The challenge, which was issued after receiving letters from clients thanking The Domain Works (http://www.thedomainworks.com) for their services, is designed to raise awareness of the problem that plagues thousands of internet professionals.

-It’s amazing how many people deal with email problems on a monthly basis,- said company CEO Errett Cord. -It is understandable for web servers to go down occasionally, but not mail servers.-

The Domain Works provides outsourced email services, enabling email accounts to be hosted on separate servers. The service is very advantageous for webmasters and web hosts who may experience email problems when their web servers have an outage.

Unlike popular free email services such as Google’s Gmail and Microsoft’s Hotmail, The Domain Works allows clients to keep their old email addresses.

-A simple switch of a few settings allows our clients to use email addresses that are based off their own domain name, but hosted on our mail servers,- said Cord.

In addition, the service provided by The Domain Works often dramatically reduces lost productivity due to filtering of nuisance email messages.

-Our customers get email aliasing, mail groups, spam monitoring, redirects, web mail access, POP3 access, and a customized control panel, all for no extra charge,- said Cord.

Cord encourages web hosts to place customer contact and support emails on outsourced servers so their customers can contact them in the event of a large scale outage.

-Every month we hear about a handful of datacenter outages that inconvenience thousands of people, and web hosts whose email accounts have been affected are unable to reach their clients,- said Cord.

-Companies can impress their customers by having open lines of communication even when their servers are down. It just makes good sense-

For more information on email plans, visit http://www.thedomainworks.com/email_plans.php.