As Gas Tops £3 Per Gallon, Too Web Hosting Firm Offers Relief

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All new customers who sign up and commit to a yearly contract with C I Host will receive up to 20 percent off, three months free and a gasoline card worth £40 for their next fill up.

"We know that businesses – especially in the small and medium sized market – are suffering from the rise in gasoline prices," said Christopher Faulkner, CEO of C I Host. "We want to help them get through this rough time. Not only will we give them a break on their website, we'll pay for their next tank of gas."

Hurricane Rita, following dangerously close to Katrina's wrath, appeared to be following a path that could take it across a section of Texas and Louisiana coastline that is home to the nation's biggest concentration of oil refineries.

With the refining industry already reeling from Katrina, more damage could push gasoline prices to £5 a gallon, experts says.

"We will do what we can to help our fellow citizens dealing with this catastrophe," Faulkner said.

C I Host, with 220,000 clients in 192 countries, recently expanded its Dallas state of the art data center. Earlier this year, a new data center opened in Newark. Both the Newark center and the Fort Worth expansion are filling quickly. A new center in the city of Dallas is planned for 2006.

"We are growing and we want to help as many businesses as possible grow with us," Faulkner said.

Besides its rapid growth, C I Host is also known for creative, innovative and effective marketing schemes. C I Host created the first real human billboard when an Illinois man agreed to tattoo the firm's logo on the back of his head. C I Host put its logo on Evander Holyfield’s boxing trunks and sends roses with its eBusiness in a Box package for Valentine's Day.

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 220,000 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, has passed the SAS70 Type I audit and has received its ISO 9001:2000 Certification.

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. Best Data Center and Best Dedicated Service Provider 2003 by HostPulse.com. C I Host was named among the Top 25 Web hosting companies by HostIndex.com, and the Fourth Fastest-Growing Technology Company by Deloitte and Touche.

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 four 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 New York.

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.

Editorial Contact:
D. Kent Pingel
Vice President, Corporate Communications & Public Relations
C I Host
888-868-9931 ext. 7006
kentp@cihost.com