C I Host, Global Leader To Open New York/New Jersey Data Center Planned Private, Direct Fiber Connection To London [December 14, 2004]

FORT WORTH (December 16, 2004) - C I Host, a leading Web host and Internet solutions provider, will open an East Coast data center 9 minutes from Manhattan early in 2005.

The Newark data center will be the fifth wholly-owned center that C I Host has developed over the past seven years, following those in Bedford, Los Angeles, Chicago and San Jose, Calif.

"The expansion into New York and New Jersey will help accommodate the needs of our growing colocation customer base and expand our portfolio of geographic-specific services," said Christopher Faulkner, CEO of C I Host. "We will be able to offer services to the SMB market usually only available to larger companies, and at prices they can afford."

The New York/New Jersey data facility will also have a direct, private fiber connection to the planned London facility, thus enabling private data transfer between the two facilities.

"For top speed, reliability and security, the data that flows between our East Coast and London centers will pass on a private C I Host network, not on the public Internet," Faulkner said.

Geographic-specific services that will become more available on the East Coast include disaster recovery solutions, data backup services, geographic load balancing, data warehousing and redundancy.

Due to C I Host's aggressive North American expansion, small- and medium-sized businesses will benefit from having greater access to geographic content distribution and load balancing, multiple redundant locations and other enterprise level services.

"Our model is to introduce enterprise services to SMB owners and give them access to service levels, service portfolios and features they never thought possible," Faulkner said. "Normally these services are reserved for customers paying much higher rates for hosting. With C I Host, an SMB customer can have servers in Newark, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Jose and Chicago, or any combination of those five cities, for less than $1,000 a month."

Housing equipment and serving data at different locations around the globe is important for companies who have customers in several locations. The closer the server is to the customer, the more quickly the web page will load and the more likely the customer will stay on line - an important consideration in eCommerce.

The 10,000 square-foot facility is wholly owned and operated by C I Host and built to C I Host's stringent specifications.

All C I Host's centers are protected by sophisticated physical and cyber-security systems. The Newark center will be staffed 24/7 with trained system administrators to ensure that customers' web sites and servers stay active and reliable.

In addition, the Newark Data Center will be protected from assaults from natural causes or hackers by the highest possible security measures, including instant water detection and intrusion sensors, CCTV(closed circuit TV) with 30-day DVR recording, infrared and biometric hand scanners and pre-action sprinkler systems.

The facility's physical security is augmented by its internal location, with no walls bordering a building exterior. Excellent physical security is enforced with 24/7/365 on-site personnel, a security guard at every entrance, advanced instant locking and motion detection.

The center is located within a controlled environment with multiple Liebert air systems with N+1 temperature, humidity and air-quality regulation. Two megawatts of power from multiple power grids supply electricity from diverse locations to a private substation on site, which is backed up and conditioned by UPS systems with auto-start diesel generators.

The business climate in New York and New Jersey is among the most vibrant in the nation. A recent report by the Russell Sage Foundation, three years after 9/11, pointed to the "remarkable resilience" of the area's economy. In particular, the report found that most businesses affected by the attack on the World Trade Center relocated in either Manhattan or New Jersey.

"We will be honored to provide our services to the New York and New Jersey market," Faulkner said. "This is an area of great pride and tremendous opportunity. Our ability to give small and medium sized businesses - as well as global conglomerates - the cutting edge tools they need to succeed, makes C I Host a perfect fit with the dynamism of the New York-New Jersey area."

C I Host has consistently expanded over the past several years. Built on a solid financial foundation with no bank loans or venture capital, it has been able to grow and prosper even as competitors went bankrupt or scaled back their operations.

About C I Host
C I Host (www.cihost.com), based in the Dallas/Fort Worth market, is a Web hosting and Internet solutions provider, domain name registrar (DNR) and application service provider (ASP) serving 215,000 individual consumers and businesses in 190 countries worldwide.

C I Host creates business-class Web hosting solutions for the small- and medium-enterprise (SME) market, with the broadest portfolio of managed hosting and value-added services in the industry. C I Host is accredited by ICANN to register domain names.

C I Host is HIPAA-compliant and has passed the SAS70 Type I audit.

C I Host has been ranked #1 in speed by the Adoloma Web Hosting Guide. C I Host has been consistently ranked among the Top 5 Web hosting companies out of 16,000 around the globe by c|net's Ultimate Web Host List, HostPulse, WebHostsOnline.com and HostChart.com. C I Host was named among the Top 25 Web hosting companies by HostIndex.com.

C I Host offers turn-key services ranging from initial domain name registration to custom dedicated servers for e-commerce on today's Web. The company offers innovative packages and services to the Internet community.

C I Host operates three diverse data centers across the United States, with its main facility and Network Operations Center in Bedford, Texas. C I Host also has offices in Los Angeles, Chicago and London.

All telco-grade, tier-1 data centers are wholly owned and operated by C I Host and consist of redundant diesel generator backups and a temperature-controlled secure environment with fully redundant UPS capability. All server hardware is fully tested and configured for optimal performance. Daily Web server backups and full fire protection guard against any data loss. To deliver speed and reliability, C I Host's servers are connected to its privately-owned dark fiber network consisting of multiple GigE (1000Mbits each) optical connections to redundant Internet backbones for a total of more than 5 Gigabits of available bandwidth.

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Editorial Contact:

D. Kent Pingel
Public Relations Director
C I Host
888-868-9931 ext. 7006
kentp@cihost.com