Hosters Worldwide Overwhelmingly Embraced Ensim’s Web Hosting Solutions in 2003

A Record 130 Hosting Resellers Now Offer Ensim’s Control Panels Globally

HostReview.com
Tuesday, December 16, 2003; 12:00 AM

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Dec. 16, 2003 - Ensim Corporation, the global leader in hosting automation software, today announced that a record 130 hosting resellers worldwide joined the Ensim Active Reseller Program (EARN) in 2003. These partners can now offer their customers Ensim WEBppliance Pro for Linux or Windows, Ensim WEBppliance Basic, Ensim Power Tools and Ensim Extend, to meet a wide range of Web hosting needs. The EARN program was expressly designed for hosting partners wanting to bundle Ensim products with their dedicated server offerings.

"After an extensive evaluation process, we chose Ensim's Web hosting solutions because they provide the value proposition our customers want," said Steve Emmanuelli, customer service manager at Vaultnetworks.com. "Ensim's offerings are easy to use and provide the security and stability users demand. In addition, we can easily create hosting plans that meet each customer's individual requirements, saving us time and increasing our profits."

Most recently, 29 additional hosting companies joined the EARN program. Ensim's new global partners are:

"The overwhelming adoption of our solutions worldwide clearly demonstrates the demand for professional caliber software in the hosting market," said Steve Dauber, vice president of marketing at Ensim Corporation. "We expect the significant growth that we experienced in 2003 to continue its momentum into 2004 and beyond."

About Ensim Products
Ensim WEBppliance Pro is the hosting industry's first control panel to offer the professional-grade capabilities required to build and manage commercial-quality Web site hosting for shared, reseller, and small business customers. These include automated tools to manage web servers, web sites, e-mail and reseller channels, as well as the ability to delegate administration capabilities to resellers, site owners and end users.

Ensim WEBppliance Basic is the first control panel software specifically created for Web masters to manage their own dedicated Web servers. It offers extensive automation, tutorials and on-line help to reduce the time and expertise required for owners of shared web sites to upgrade to their own dedicated server.

Ensim WEBppliance Pro and Ensim WEBppliance Basic share a common user interface, reducing support costs for hosting service providers and enabling easy upgrade paths to higher priced hosting plans. These software packages provide a comprehensive software solution for delivering commercial-quality shared and dedicated web site hosting to consumer and business customers.

Ensim Power Tools is the industry's first secure, automated solution for deploying the most popular interactive Web applications available today. An add-on product to Ensim WEBppliance control panels, Ensim Power Tools enables Web hosting service providers (HSPs) to create and offer tiered hosting plans that will increase their revenue potential while controlling support costs.

Ensim Extend is a highly scalable, professional grade solution for mass-shared hosting. In conjunction with Ensim WEBppliance Pro for Linux, Ensim Extend enables HSPs to seamlessly grow their businesses from one server supporting a few web sites to thousands of servers supporting tens of thousands of domains. With Ensim Extend, large-scale hosters benefit from centralized provisioning, DNS, resource management and IP address management. Small hosters can seamlessly layer Ensim Extend's centralized capabilities on top of their existing Ensim WEBppliance Pro deployments, enabling them to smoothly scale their businesses. With Ensim Extend, HSPs can easily manage the growth of their businesses, efficiently and profitably.

About Ensim Corporation
Ensim Corporation is the global leader in developing and providing software solutions for the Web and application hosting industry. Over 18,000 service providers worldwide use Ensim's products to automate the provisioning, metering and management of their hosting offerings. Ensim's professional-grade software currently hosts more than 500,000 Web sites and five million mailboxes, with an annual growth rate exceeding 100 percent. The company's comprehensive product line includes control panels, virtual private servers, server management, as well as the industry's first Operations Support System for hosting applications. For more information, please visit our Web site at www.ensim.com, or call toll free 1/877-693-6746 within the United States, or 1/408-745-3300 if you are calling from outside the United States.

Press Contact: Helen Kendrick Thorvald Ensim Corporation 408/745-3306 hthorvald@ensim.com Ensim and the Ensim logo are registered trademarks of Ensim Corporation and WEBppliance is a trademark of Ensim Corporation. All trademarks or registered trademarks contained herein are the property of their respective owners.