C I Host Expands Bandwidth Capacity Across North America

September 14, 2005; 05:29 AM

FORT WORTH - September 12, 2005 - C I Host, a global leader in Web hosting
and Internet solutions, has expanded its data center capacity across North
America, bringing its 220,000 customers the ability to handle more traffic
on their sites without disruption.

"For our customers to have the edge they need to be competitive in their
fields, they need enough bandwidth to handle today's eCommerce activities,"
said Christopher Faulkner, CEO of C I Host. "C I Host is leading the
industry in bandwidth capacity."

In its primary data center in Bedford, Texas, C I Host installed
GigE 1000Mbits from Hurricane Electric Internet Services and GigE 1000Mbits
from btnaccess.com, bringing the total capacity to 7Gbits per second.

In the Chicago data center, C I Host installed GigE 1000Mbits of Yipes
bandwidth and OC3 155Mbits of Global Crossing bandwidth. In Los Angeles, the
company installed 155Mbits of Global Crossing bandwidth.

"C I Host continues to grow and expand our services," Faulkner said. "We
have partnered with some of the leaders in the bandwidth field to bring our
customers the very best Internet solutions available."

Hurricane Electric specializes in technical web hosting, including dedicated
servers and colocation. Its switched network utilizes the Border Gateway
Protocol Version 4 (BGP4) over Cisco 12000 series GSR routers.

Btnaccess operates a carrier-grade, Class-5 softswitch on a U.S. and
international MPLS backbone. MPLS is engineered to provide high
availability, security and flexible Quality of Service.

The Yipes network is built on a proprietary self-healing architecture -
Ethernet Automatic Protection Switching (EAPS) - that provides multiple
routes to and from each location. In the event of an outage, data is
automatically rerouted with minimal disruption.

Global Crossing's extensive IP-based network has a single, seamless
connection and instantly scalable bandwidth. Its optical networking
equipment maximizes speed and performance.

--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 220,000 individual consumers and
businesses in 190 countries worldwide.

C I Host 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 is accredited by
ICANN to register domain names.

C I Host is HIPAA-compliant, has passed the SAS70 Type I audit and has
received its ISO 9001:2000 Certification.

C I Host has been ranked #1 in speed by the Adoloma Web Hosting Guide. C I
Host has been consistently ranked among the Top 5 Web hosting companies out
of 16,000 around the globe by c|net's Ultimate Web Host List, HostPulse,
WebHostsOnline.com and HostChart.com. Best Data Center and Best Dedicated
Service Provider 2003 by HostPulse.com. C I Host was named among the Top 25
Web hosting companies by HostIndex.com, and the Fourth Fastest-Growing
Technology Company by Deloitte and Touche.

C I Host offers turn-key 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 five 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, Chicago, San Jose and Newark.

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 its privately-owned dark fiber network consisting of multiple
GigE (1000Mbits each) optical connections to redundant Internet backbones
for a total of more than 5 Gigabits of available bandwidth.