Leap Into Buckets of Savings with C I Host on February 29 [February 27, 2004]

FORT WORTH, TX (February 27, 2004) - You've got an extra day this year. C I
Host has something important for you to do with it.
Leap into savings - super, wonderful, once-in-every-four-years type savings.
To say nothing of the C I Host Leap Year contests that that will take your breath away.
C I Host's offices will be open all day on Leap Year Day - February 29 - to help you.

With promo code FEB29, you can receive these tremendous packages:

a.. Free shipping of all collocation and customer equipment to any of C I Host's three data centers - Dallas, Los Angeles or Chicago
b.. Emergency platinum set up
c.. Three free months added to all of C I Host's services
d.. Personal migration account representative if you are switching from a competitor

"The three free months is a $105,000 value at our highest rate, quite a bonus for making your move on Leap Year Day," said Christopher Faulkner, CEO of C I Host. "We want to give our customers every edge to be the best in their field."

But what about those contests, you ask.

How about free cruises for two on Carnival Cruise lines?

How about free hosting - for life?

Faulkner says nearly every order will win a free cruise and 50 lifetime free
hosting packages will be awarded on Sunday. "We want to see a lot of smiling
faces," he said.

The winners will be chosen through a matching system with preset winning
account numbers.

Cruise winners have their choice of the following:
a.. 3 day cruise from Port Canaveral, Florida to Nassau, Bahamas
b.. 3 day cruise from Miami, Florida to Nassau, Bahamas
c.. 4 day cruise from Galveston, Texas to Cozumel, Mexico
d.. 3 day cruise from Los Angeles, California to Ensenada, Mexico

--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 205,000 individual consumers and
businesses in 182 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 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 two OC-12 fiber connections, five DS-3 and two OC-3 lines from
five diverse Internet backbones for a total of more than 2.6 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