C I Host to Exhibit at MILIA 2002, 'The World's Interactive Content Marketplace,' in Cannes, Feb. 4 - 8, 2002.

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Milia 2002

BEDFORD, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 31, 2002

Leading Web Host's "eBusiness in a Box" Expected to Wow the Growing

European e-Commerce Market

C I Host, a global leader in the web hosting industry that is expanding its presence in Europe, will exhibit its increasingly popular "e-Business in a Box," at MILIA 2002, "The World's Interactive Content Marketplace," from Feb. 4 to 8 at the Palais des Festivals in Cannes.

C I Host will also be the sponsor of the press room, which will serve as home base for the more than 1,000 journalists from all over the globe who are expected to cover the Marketplace.

MILIA is the world's premier event that brings together developers, producers and publishers of interactive entertainment, online games and digital media content. The Marketplace provides an opportunity for the creative side of the growing industry to network with senior decision-makers from broadband and wireless networks, telecoms, interactive TV operators and major Internet portals.

"We are extremely pleased to be invited to this influential and exciting event," said Christopher Faulkner, CEO of C I Host. "Meeting with global leaders in the interactive entertainment and access delivery worlds will enable C I Host to continue to bring its customers the very best in web hosting and Internet solutions."

MILIA's "Interactive Market" provides an unparalleled venue for companies such as C I Host to meet content creators and new talent for fresh genres of interactive programming.

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 website, 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 website management tasks at a company's fingertips.

C I Host, set to open facilities in London in March and in Germany later in the year, 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 website 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 United Federation of ChildSafe Web Sites, UFCWS -ChildSafe.com

"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, domain name registrar (DNR) and application service provider (ASP) serving 125,000 individual consumers and businesses in 176 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 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.