inbound pages both the first number and the second number being selectable by the merchant fig1 a and 1b depicts a number of elements that may be involved in one or more embodiments of the invention that involve providing fax and voicemail services a merchant such as j2 global communications of hollywood calif may maintain one or more co located data centers 120 a 120 b which may be located in diverse physical locations such diverse locations may be chosen to facilitate connections 111 a 111 b to local telephone switching stations not shown that are part of a public switched telephone network pstn 110 connections to local telephone switching stations may be desired because they allow the connected machines to be accessed through the pstn by a local phone number as opposed to a long distance phone number for example if a co located data center was placed in tokyo japan then the connected machines could place and receive inexpensive local phone calls to other phones in tokyo and less expensive calls to and from other locations in japan as compared to such calls placed to or from a machine located in geneva switzerland the co located data centers may contain a number of server functions such as web server 121 electronic mail e mail server 122 database server 123 voice mail server 124.