C I Host Expands Core Data Center for 9th Time

December 4, 2006; 12:49 AM
FORT WORTH - C I Host, a global leader in Web hosting and Internet solutions, has expanded its core data center by 8,000 square feet to handle its rapid growth.

This is the ninth time the company has expanded its core facility in Bedford, Texas. There is room for one more phase expansion and then the facility will be fully utilized.

"We are already working on our second facility in the Dallas/Fort Worth area," said Christopher Faulkner, CEO of C I Host. "It will be online and operational within 12 months to allow us to continue to expand."

C I Host is adding 600 new dedicated servers and more than 4,000 new shared hosting accounts a month, in addition to completing more than 50 colocation deals a month.

With wholly-owned, state-of-the-art data centers in Dallas, Los Angeles, Chicago and Newark - and a planned opening in London - C I Host has grown and prospered its 9-year history, a time that saw exuberant peaks and challenging valleys in the high tech industry.

Over the 18 months, C I Host has expanded many of its facilities, developed an anti-scam toolbar and other strategies to protect Internet users from Internet crime, and pioneered the use of web-based technology to expand the market for musicians and artists to sell their products and services and to help nonprofit organizations linked with the arts to raise funds to help those hurt by national disasters.

"Our lack of long-term debt, our early creation of a robust, transparent reseller program and our decision from the get-go to run a customer-centered company as helped us get where we are today," Faulkner said. "There are also the guiding principles that will carry us into the future."

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) hosting 330,000 domains 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 and has passed SAS 70 Type I & II audits.

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. C I Host was named among the Top 25 Web hosting companies by HostIndex.com.

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 four 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, Newark and London.

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 five diverse Internet backbones for a total of more than 5 Gigabits of available bandwidth.