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Fort Worth, Texas - (via THE HOSTING NEWS) - September 6, 2005 - C I Host, a global leader in web hostingand Internet solutions, has opened a state-of-the-art data center in Newark, New Jersey, a half-mile from Rutgers University and just eight miles from Manhattan.

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.

Christopher Faulkner, CEO of C I Host commented on the new data center, “Our customers can now back up their entire office and its files to up to our data centers in Newark, Chicago, Fort Worth and Los Angeles. They can mirror content from the East Coast to the West Coast or the reverse.”

Besides its four data centers, C I Host has invested in an exceptionally large, robust, redundant and reliable network - now one of the largest privately owned fiber-optic web hosting networks in the world.

That vast network, in connection with the data centers, allows C I Host to provide its customers with geographic load balancing, which means that data on a company’s Web site can be served from the C I Host servers that are closest to the customer accessing the company’s information.

Housing equipment and serving data at different locations around the globe is important for companies who have customers in several locations. The closer the server is to the customer, the more quickly the web page will load and the more likely the customer will stay on line - an important consideration in eCommerce.

“We know that millions of dollars of business can be earned or lost online depending on whether the customer can navigate the site quickly,” Faulkner said. “So we put a major emphasis on the quick download times that geographic load balancing provides.”

C I Host has shown consistent growth and expansion since it was founded in 1997, even when other companies in its field were cutting back or closing down. C I Host owns each of its facilities, has no long-term debt and has not relied on venture capital.

With four state of the art, full-service data centers spread across the country, C I Host can now give customers the ability to:
* Choose the service that fits their needs, from shared to dedicated to colocation
* Choose the city where they want their data hosted
* Choose if they want to mirror their content to one of the other three centers

Geographic-specific services that will become more available on the East Coast include disaster recovery solutions, data backup services, data warehousing and redundancy.

“New York and New Jersey are hotbeds for Internet companies and this location will give our customers a valuable, East Coast location to house their data,” Faulkner said. “All of our services will be available at the Newark location.”

The 8,000-square foot Newark center, CDC-04, will provide companies from small- and medium-sized enterprises to major, global conglomerates the choice of shared colocation, cabinets or suites, multiple server clustering, load balancing, custom or pre-built configurations, private colocation vaults, and the whole gamut of C I Host managed IT services, networking services, and network consulting.

“Companies who co-locate their operations in a C I Host data center are protected by the industry’s most advanced power, security, network and fire suppression technologies,” Faulkner said. “Our built-in redundancies will enable us to continue operating no matter what natural or man-made catastrophe may occur.”

The Newark center has two fiber entry points with two-inch conduits, a one-inch interduct and a one-inch interduct with EMT conduit. The core router is a Cisco 7206VXR, and the switching gear includes a Cisco 6500 and ten Cisco Catalysts 2924-XL-EN (100mbps and GigE).

Prices start at $99 a month for a single server colocation or managed dedicated servers, and go up to $599 for full rack colocation.

For further information on C I Host, please visit: www.cihost.com.

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