C I Host Unwraps "e-Business in a Box" At CeBIT 2002; CEO Faulkner to Address Outsourcing Issues for Attendees.

Business Editors/High Tech Writers

Mar 13-20 CeBIT 2002

BEDFORD, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 11, 2002

C I Host, a global leader in the web hosting industry that is expanding its presence in Europe, will exhibit its newly upgraded "e-Business in a Box," at CeBIT 2002 from March 13 to 20 at the Hannover Fairgrounds in Hannover, Germany.

C I Host will be exhibiting in Hall 7, Stand C30, Booth G15. Faulkner will speak on March 13 from 5:15 to 5:50 p.m. at Bonn #2 in the Convention Center located in the center of the Fairgrounds. The speech is entitled "Don't Make Your IT Department Play 'Who's on First.' Outsource that Web-hosting!"

C I Host CEO Christopher Faulkner to speak at CeBIT 2002 in Hannover, Germany; firm will unveil upgraded products at show, March 13 - 20, 2002. Leading web host's newly upgraded "e-Business in a Box," plus expanded bandwidth and capacity for streaming media a perfect fit for growing European market.

Christopher Faulkner, CEO of C I Host will speak on how outsourcing a firm's web hosting and IT services can improve its bottom line through increasing the effectiveness of its online presence and by reducing costs.

CeBIT is the world's leading showplace for information technology, telecommunications and office automation. This year's event will feature products and services from more than 7,900 exhibitors and is anticipated to attract some 800,000 visitors during its eight-day run.

"We are extremely pleased to be part of this visionary exhibit," said Christopher Faulkner, CEO of C I Host. "The opportunity to rub shoulders with some of the leaders of the interactive marketplace is without parallel. We are most excited about reaching the vibrant and growing wireless market in Europe."

C I Host will feature its increasingly popular "e-Business in a Box." Available online and from retailers, e-Business in a Box provides small to medium-sized companies with a fully-functional e-business that is up and running within seven days.

e-Business in a Box includes a custom-made web site, all the cutting-edge Internet tools that C I Host is famous for, 24/7 technical support, a hassle-free merchant account for credit cards, top security to ensure maximum uptime, and C I Host's popular Monster Controls, which put the control of simple web site management tasks at a company's fingertips.

The new upgrade to e-Business in a Box adds 10 stock images to help establish the site's theme, a customized form to allow user inquiries such as "Order Status and JavaScript to display the current date automatically. In addition, the site will be customized to enable it to be expandable to monitors with different resolutions and the package will come with a CD-ROM that contains all the files and graphics needed for the web site.

In expanding its reach into the European market, C I Host developed strategic alliances with top Internet solutions providers to enable it to house data literally "right in each client's neighborhood," Faulkner said. This proximity lets C I Host provide unparalleled speed and gives it the capacity to deliver content by streaming audio and video from its clients' web sites.

Through its alliance with InterNap, a Seattle-based firm that provides patented route management technology, C I Host has access to private carrier fiber all over the world. In addition, InterNap routes around the Internet peering points that are usually the source of Internet congestion, thus providing more speed, security and uptime for web sites.

"Our connection times are exceedingly fast, no matter where you are, because we have the ability to use networks closest to you," Faulkner said. "If you are in Germany, your data will be on a network in Germany.

That speed, combined with C I Host's robust, redundant network - built to withstand most hacker attacks and constantly patched against worms - provides a solid foundation for an e-Business.

As one of the earliest companies to make its clients' web sites wire-less enabled, C I Host is well positioned to facilitate companies' transitions into the mobile e-Business world known as m-Commerce.

C I Host, set to open facilities in London in March and in Frankfurt, Germany later in the spring, is expanding its presence in Europe to better serve its European clients and its clients around the world who have customers in Europe. It is due to open centers in Japan and India by the end of the year. It already has facilities in Texas, Chicago, Baltimore and Los Angeles.

Faulkner, 25, is a sought-after speaker on the benefits of outsourcing web hosting, IT functions and call center services for small- and medium-sized businesses; on the wireless Internet and on strategies for making the Internet secure.

Having built his company from the ground up, starting when he was still in college, Faulkner has faced all the problems of a start-up company and of a rapidly growing company. Despite an uncertain economy, C I Host continues to be solid financially, debt-free and on an upward trajectory. It is growing at the rate of 5,000 new clients a month, having just topped 149,000.

C I Host recently expanded its bandwidth for the third time in a year and invested in the superior routing service provided by InterNap to keep ahead if its customers' needs and ensure maximum uptime. C I Host was one of the first companies to take its web site completely wireless and give customers complete access to their own sites from hand held devices.

C I Host is active in keeping the Internet healthy and safe. The firm was one of the few that completely patched its servers against Code Red in 2001, thus saving its clients most of the headaches of that worm. In addition, Faulkner sits on the board of the International Federation of Safe Child Web Sites.

"The Internet will stand as one of the most promising and epoch-changing developments of the late 20th and early 21st centuries," Faulkner said. "It is the responsibility of all of us associated with the Internet to keep it robust, accessible and safe for all our global citizens."

About C I Host

C I Host (www.cihost.com), is a Web hosting and Internet solutions provider, ICANN-accredited domain name registrar (DNR) and application service provider (ASP) serving 149,000 individual consumers and businesses in 179 countries worldwide.

C I Host creates business-class 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 consistently ranked among the Top 5 Web hosting companies out of 16,000 around the globe by c-net's Ultimate Web Host List, HostIndex.com, and Web Host Directory. C I Host offers turnkey 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, Baltimore, 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 five DS-3 and OC-3 lines from five diverse Internet backbones for a total of more than 780 Megabits of available bandwidth.