New Center Anchors East Coast, Provides Geographic Content Distribution

The year's most coveted technological wonder just became easier to own.

C I Host will give a free Apple iPod Shuffle 1G MP3 Player with 1GB Internal Flash to anyone who takes a tour of its new, 10,000 square foot state-of-the art center in Newark, New Jersey, and listens to an explanation of the center’s capabilities.

"Like the iPod, C I Host is playing at the top of its game, giving customers what they want and need,”"said Christopher Faulkner, CEO of C I Host. "We know that when companies and individuals see our Newark data center, they will want their websites hosted there."

Visitors will receive their iPod within two weeks of touring the Newark facility.

The Newark center is a half-mile from Rutgers University and just eight miles from Manhattan. It is close to the dynamic New York and New Jersey business centers.

The new center gives C I Host data centers coast to coast and will provide its more than 220,000 customers unparalleled opportunities for geographic content distribution and geographic load balancing.

The Newark center also has a direct, private fiber connection to the planned London facility, thus enabling private data transfer between the two facilities. The London center will be in The Docklands, just a short hop from the city center.

"Our customers can now back up their entire office and its files to our data centers in Newark, Chicago, Fort Worth and Los Angeles," Faulkner said. "They can mirror content from the East Coast to the West Coast or the reverse."

With a broad range of hosting packages, C I Host makes sophisticated eCommerce tools accessible to the small and medium-sized businesses that make up its core market.

"We know the importance of having all the tools you need to succeed, whether you are a small business working to reach a broader market or a global conglomerate," Faulkner said. "And because of our scalability and range, small companies can stay with us as they grow."

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