Everyones Internet, With New 400 GB Web Server At `Just $99 Bucks,' is a Family Network ... 2 Generations Deep.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 17, 2002

Everyones Internet (www.ev1.net) entered cyberspace December 1998, grossing $1.8 million at the end of its fiscal year in 1999. By August of 2001 it posted $18 million in earnings, with a projection of $33 million for 2002. It's the fastest growing ISP in Houston, among the top 25 (out of 7,000 nationwide) in the United States by subscriber, according to internet.com. Everyones Internet currently serves 8 states in addition to its base in Texas.

Its RackShack division is the only state-of-the-art carrier class Web server to offer industry-setting 400 GB of transfer power on over 4,000 fully automated dedicated servers. RackShack's 10,000 customers include resellers in Germany, Spain, Russia, Japan, South Africa, Australia and Ireland, among 60 international outlets.

Recently the Company received a $20 million financing commitment from Compaq Corporation.

Those are the cut-and-dried numbers on a company built on "value:" a user-friendly, fast and easy ISP network with all the bells and whistles, a fun format and a rate of just 10 bucks a month. Just 10 Bucks(TM) means never having a contract to sign; no introductory come-on rate; just a first-of-the-month fee of $10. Always. (The Company does reserve the right to modify rates should their costs increase.) RackShack Web-hosting division offers a similar value as Everyones Internet at "Just $99 Bucks(TM)" to $149 per month for true Tier I service.

Robert Marsh had wanted to develop a world-class Internet service provider and price it below market, but there's more than just a recent dot com entrepreneur: a canny business web spun by two generations of two families.

At the helm of Everyones Internet is idea-man 32-year-old "Head Surfer" Robert Marsh, president and CEO. He was already an entrepreneur as an undergraduate at Harding University in Searcy Ark, where he reopened a historic single screen movie theatre, The Rialto.

Brother Roy A. Marsh III, 42, is secretary/VP finance and known -- justifiably -- as "Tightwad Surfer." Randall (Randy) Williams, 33, "Techie Surfer" is VP network systems/chief engineer, the whiz kid of the inner workings. Robert's wife, Michelle, "HowCanIHelpYouSurfer" is a long-time director of customer service.

Intermittent advisors are the senior Marsh and Williams patriarchs, the first generation, who passed on the knowledgeable DNA.

Roy A. Marsh, Jr., "VP of Opinions," and an original stockholder, has been in communications since the 1950s. His career has evolved from Motorola's and RCA's 2-way radio divisions, through FCC-licensed car mobile radios, cellular phones, and beepers, specifically Beeper Boutique (which has since been sold). Marshall Williams, advisor, has been doing numbers-crunching of the egghead kind since undergraduate days in the 1960s when he studied mathematics, chemistry and -- fledgling computer science. An ex-college math professor, he founded a computer networking company, Alpha Networks, which is integral to Everyones Internet.

Come the sons: Robert Marsh -- at the tender of age 21 he co-founded Beeper Boutique in 1991; Roy Marsh III - a CPA in public practice and private industry -- who joined two years later; and the younger Williams, Randy -- a pro in his father's service-based networking company -- coming on board as needed.

Cyberspace was the next logical step in communications in `98. But besides the fun inherent in a youth-driven company like Everyones Internet -- online games, in-your-face memos to customers and in-house pool tables and contests to keep the crew happy -- value keeps the Company expanding at a phenomenal rate while tech companies all around keep falling by the wayside.

"We offer quality service with lots of features, which are constantly upgraded at below market price," says Robert Marsh. "It's a down-home, value-oriented offer. It's a simple no strings attached deal." Just 10 Bucks(TM) is more than just a slogan, or an introductory offer, it's the constant.

How can Everyones Internet do it when most others are more than twice the price?

While it's proprietary information, Marsh will say "our network and service structure set-up costs less to provide those services." He and Randy originally developed a lot of the system with the end goal questioning, "why do you need that? Let's do this!" Robert Marsh is also known as a tough negotiator with suppliers.

But maybe the best reason is that Everyones Internet didn't have much money to start with, they struggled in the beginning. "We had to pull it together on our bootstraps," says Marsh. "We HAD to make it work with less. Others have huge money behind them. They've blown through 100s of millions of dollars and they're still not profitable."

A recent venture of Everyones Internet is an example of the Company's frugality and knowing a good deal when they see it. The Company purchased a 28,000-square-foot data center to primarily maintain dedicated Web-hosting servers of it Web-hosting division, RackShack. The Company paid $1 million for a facility which had cost over $10.5 million to build and equip from an Internet company which is downsizing its operations around the U.S. It also purchased new, in-box equipment worth $1.3 million at cents on the dollar. Value pricing is an integral part of this operation, too, with a low (yet profitable) $99 a month rental to Web server companies.

"The value concept is well-positioned in a slow economy," says Marsh, who was a finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year in both 2000 and 2001.

Everyones Internet was named "Today's Best Economy Web Host" by Web Host Magazine, January 2000; "Best ISP 1999" by Houston Business Journal; and "Best Internet Service Provider" Houston Press Best Of Houston 1999 and 2000 Readers Poll.

Note: Everyones Internet has no apostrophe.