BEDFORD, Texas, Jul 28, 2003 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- C I Host ( www.cihost.com ) announced today a promotional giveaway of digital cameras to prospective customers who tour their data centers in Chicago, Dallas and Los Angeles. Additionally, customers who sign up for data center services, including dedicated or co-location servers, will receive an all-expenses-paid Carnival cruise for two.

Businesses and organizations eager to join the digital photo revolution, here's your chance. If you've wanted launch your own online enterprise or switch from a faltering hosting company and get rewarded for it, C I Host will make it happen.

C I Host, leader in the Web hosting industry, will give a digital camera to anyone who comes in for a tour of their data centers, each located in the Top three Internet cities in the U.S. -- Chicago, Dallas and Los Angeles. The camera will be given to the customer at the end of the tour. No purchase is necessary to receive the camera.

After the tour, anyone who purchases C I Host co-location or dedicated server services will receive an all-expenses-paid Carnival cruise for two.

These unique offers is C I Host's way of allowing its customers to rest easy as C I Host watches over its customers' servers and infrastructure 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year.

The offers apply to customers just launching an online business presence and to those wishing to switch from their current Web host. Any customer who switches to C I Host will have their servers shipped free to one of the company's data centers.

"Come in, listen to the pitch and take the tour," said Christopher Faulkner, CEO of C I Host. "We believe once people hear our service offerings and see our facilities, they will switch to our co-location facilities immediately and become C I Host customers. We'll then reward those new customers with a relaxing trip while we watch over their servers."

C I Host has state-of-the-art data centers in Chicago, Dallas and Los Angeles with plans to open a new facility in London by the end of the year.

The Dallas data center recently added 5,000 square feet to accommodate 2,000 new servers and is already at 70 percent capacity. The Chicago data center, which opened in March, is at over 20 percent of capacity. The Chicago center became profitable, with earnings exceeding expenses before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA positive) within 45 days of its opening. All of C I Host's data centers are EBITDA positive.

C I Host has one of the largest, most robust and redundant networks in the industry and guarantees 99 percent uptime for Web sites. With its three data centers and many POPs around the globe, C I Host can house each customer's data on servers closest to their clients, thus decreasing download time and encouraging Web visitors to stay longer and buy more.

"We go the extra mile to build an online presence for our customers that boosts their bottom line," Faulkner said. "We have all the tools and meet all the requirements that any business needs to be successful in e-Commerce."

For example, in November 2002, C I Host's stringent security measures and systems passed a rigorous audit so it could provide online services to any health care company or facility -- allowing those companies to become HIPAA certified. HIPAA is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.

In May 2003, C I Host's core data center facility in Texas passed the strict SAS 70 audit which is required for companies who want to provide IT services to firms with high security and confidentiality requirements.

C I Host is also one of the first Web hosting firms to offer hosting on the new OS X Apple servers. C I Host's new suite of customized solutions 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.

Contact: Nancy St. Pierre
Public Relations Director, C I Host
888-868-9931 ext. 7006
nancys@cihost.com

Website: http://www.cihost.com


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Nancy St. Pierre, Public Relations Director, C I Host,
+1-888-868-9931, ext. 7006, or nancys@cihost.com

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