PR: C I Host Signs Up 200,000th Client as Strong Growth and Low Turnover Contin

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C I Host Signs Up 200,000th Client as Strong Growth and Low
Turnover Continues

BEDFORD, TX, Oct. 6, 2003 -- Building on a solid financial
footing, C I Host has reached a new milestone -- 200,000
customers in 182 countries around the globe. A recognized
leader in Web hosting and Internet infrastructure solutions,
C I Host has continued to grow even as other
Internet-related companies have faltered.

In the same month that the 200,000th customer joined C I
Host, the firm received a Fast Tech 50 award from Deloitte
and Touche for being one of the fastest-growing technology
companies in the Texas Crescent Technology, based on revenue
growth.

Between 2001 and 2003, C I Host not only doubled its
customer base, but enjoyed a 690 percent revenue growth,
enabling it to expand its Texas and Los Angeles facilities
and open a new data center in Chicago. At the same time, C I
Host has extended its reach beyond the small and medium
sized market to serve large corporations. It now hosts more
than 5,000 dedicated servers.

"The credit for reaching this 200,000th milestone and for
our increased revenue goes to our employees and resellers,"
said Christopher Faulkner, CEO of C I Host. "We have kept
our focus on the needs of our customers and have taken the
lead in guaranteed uptime, top level security and innovative
Internet solutions."

A combination of forces and business decisions has given C I
Host the solid foundation that has enabled it not only to
withstand, but to thrive in the unsettled economic climate
that has forced other firms to cut back, withdraw and
sometimes fold their tents.

"We were able to plough all the revenues back into the
company long enough for it to get its sea legs," Faulkner
said. "We have no long-term debt. We have never had to rely
on outside venture capital. All of our facilities are wholly
owned and operated by us."

Because it continued to grow through the recent rough times,
C I Host is perfectly positioned to ride the current upswing
in the economy and technology sector to even higher levels
of achievement.

Faulkner, 26, founded C I Host in December of 1995 and ran
it out of his college dorm room, doing everything that
needed to be done. He researched technical questions from
clients, woke up in the middle of the night to take calls
from overseas customers and planned marketing strategy.

The killing pace paid off. In its first six months, C I Host
set a new record by being the first start-up company to
break into the top 25 web hosting companies in the world as
ranked by the now defunct Web Host List. C I Host has grown
by a minimum of 200 percent every year since it was founded.

During the first six months of 2003, C I Host took several
steps to position itself to expand its customer base.

The firm received the federal HIPAA certification, thus
making it eligible to provide information technology
services to the more than 2 million health care
organizations that must meet strict new patient
confidentiality regulations. HIPAA is the Health Insurance
Portability and Accountability Act.

C I Host's core data center facility in Texas passed the
rigorous audit called the SAS 70, which is required for
companies who want to provide IT services to firms with high
security and confidentiality requirements.

C I Host also became one of the first Web hosting firms to
offer hosting on the new OS X Apple servers. C I Host
launched a new suite of customized solutions that takes
advantage of the power and stability of Apple's Xserve with
Mac OS X to offer small and medium sized businesses another
option in Web hosting.

C I Host's reseller program, launched in 1996, has developed
into one of the most robust, transparent and profitable
reseller networks in the industry. More than 8,500 resellers
in 25 countries now sell C I Host products and services as
their own.

One of the more high profile Private Label Partner
resellers, added this year, is CompUSA, which sells C I Host
products and services. C I Host also opened one of the first
bricks and mortar technology stores in the country, the C I
Host Technology Store in the Dallas Galleria.

At a time when people are increasingly nervous about
security, C I Host has consistently gone the extra mile to
protect its networks, and thus its clients' data. It patched
all its existing servers before the August attack of the
MSBlast (Lovsan) worm, and was one of the few Web hosts to
completely patch its servers against Code Red, sparing its
customers most of the headaches of that worm.

"We know what our customers need to succeed in their
competitive fields, and we give it to them," Faulkner said.
"When they are successful, we are successful."

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 200,000 individual consumers and businesses
in 182 countries worldwide. The company 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 has been consistently ranked among the Top 5 Web
hosting companies out of 16,000 around the globe. C I Host's
turn-key services range from initial domain name
registration to custom dedicated servers for e-commerce. C I
Host is headquartered from its main facility and Network
Operations Center in Bedford, Texas, and the company
operates three diverse data centers in Los Angeles, New York
City and Chicago.

Editorial Contact:

D. Kent Pingel
Public Relations Director
C I Host
888-868-9931 ext. 7006
kentp@cihost.com

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