Lexington, Massachusetts - (The Hosting News) - April 4, 2008 - Rackspace Managed Hosting, has joined web application experience management company, Gomez, Inc., in a referral partner agreement, under which Rackspace will use Gomez ExperienceFirst applications.

The Gomez PartnerFirst XF program Referral Partner Agreement will test and measure the performance of its web applications to help ensure they deliver the best possible user experience. Additionally, Rackspace will offer its customers the option to use Gomez services as an extension to the detailed application availability and performance monitoring it provides. These customers will be able to use these services to help improve the quality of the online experience they deliver by capturing and reporting website performance data measured from more than 150 globally-located Internet backbone nodes, and over 40,000 end-user desktops.

Because Gomez website performance testing originates outside the firewall, it enables customers to more realistically experience what their users are experiencing when visiting their websites. Scott White, Director of channel sales, Rackspace remarked, ”Gomez helps us and our customers measure performance so we can continuously improve and deliver better customer experiences.”

Tom Meusel, Vice President, worldwide channel sales for Gomez noted, ”Working with this industry- leading platform supports our ongoing commitment to Fanatical Support. We believe that this service can provide our customers with a distinct advantage in web experience management. Rackspace recognizes the importance of optimal web experiences down to each downloaded object and transaction. Delivering on this level of service requires a class of performance management information provided by Gomez. We look forward to a rewarding relationship with Rackspace for years to come.”

Gomez partners are leveraging the ExperienceFirst platform to validate and enhance their own product and services offerings, and to broaden their offerings through resale and referral arrangements. More information can be found at www.gomez.com/partners/partner-home.php.

Gomez, Inc. is an on-demand infrastructure provider for web application experience management solutions, helping business ensure quality web experiences for their customers. More than 1,000 companies use Gomez ExperienceFirst services worldwide, including 14 of the top 20 most visited websites. Gomez provides a comprehensive solution for managing the web application experience from development through deployment and the entire application life cycle, featuring visual, functional and load testing, actual end-user and active website monitoring, competitive benchmarking, and more than 40,000 data sources worldwide.

Rackspace delivers a diverse suite of enterprise-class hosted IT services to businesses of all sizes. Customers choose Rackspace for its hosting specialization and expertise, backed by the company’s award-winning Fanatical Support. By integrating the industry’s best technologies and delivering them as services, Rackspace serves as an extension of its customers’ IT departments. Because Rackspace removes the burden of infrastructure maintenance and management, customers can focus on their core business. Rackspace’s portfolio of companies also includes the Mosso (www.mosso.com) cloud computing platform and Mailtrust (www.mailtrust.com) a provider of business-class hosted email solutions.

To learn more about Gomez, please visit: www.gomez.com.

For more information about Rackspace Managed Hosting, please visit: www.rackspace.com.

New York, New York - (The Hosting News) - January 14, 2008 - Tier1 Research has issued a new report, focused on research highlights including the leaders in the managed hosting and Internet infrastructure sector, while detailing and identifying recent trends affecting future directions for the marketplace.

Daniel Golding, Senior Analyst at T1R and author of the report noted, ”While the managed hosting sector sees tremendous growth, a massive transformation in how shared hosting services are successfully marketed and sold is well under way. Disk space and bandwidth is no longer a selling point, and customers are now looking for the functionality that enables them to do things like blog, share photos, publish profile pages on a social network or sell things online. As a result, shared hosting has quickly commoditized and become a common denominator of sorts. In other words, shared hosting is no longer just about selling web space for static websites; rather, it is more about the many different things that can be done in a hosted environment.”

The report shows that the content Internet infrastructure market will continue to grow rapidly through 2008. T1R analysts estimate that the total for 2007 Internet infrastructure revenue will reach $17,990.75m, which represents 26% growth over the 2006 total of $14,216.39m. Based on current trends in consumer behavior, T1R expects the market for Internet infrastructure to grow another 24% in 2008.

The managed hosting sector remains the largest sector within Internet infrastructure and has experienced tremendous growth in the last 12 months in excess of 30% and will continue to show similar growth rates moving forward. Several trends account for that strong growth, including increased managed hosting adoption by SMBs and mid-tier enterprises and hosting for software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers. Moving forward into 2009 and 2010, an array of new utility storage and hosting services will continue to fuel strong growth.

The findings are contained in a report released by New York-based T1R, an independent research firm that analyzes the financial and industry implications of developments affecting public and private companies within the hosting, IT, communications and Internet sectors. The report is the second in a series designed to provide timely analysis and perspective on key technology trends and marketplace developments in the Internet infrastructure marketplace. It includes sector-specific examinations of shared hosting, dedicated hosting, managed hosting, Internet content delivery, colocation and interconnection.

The 36-page report, ‘Internet Infrastructure: Market Overview 2008,’ provides an idea of the overall size, scope and growth of the sectors within the Internet infrastructure market. It spotlights various prominent firms in each segment and gives the market outlook for each. It also includes an overview of the Internet infrastructure taxonomy, including the breakdown among various types of Internet infrastructure services.

The report covers more than 40 key public and private companies in the Internet infrastructure sector, including 1 and 1, Akamai, AT and T, BitGravity, CDNetworks, CI Host, ChinaCache, Endurance International, GoDaddy.com, GS Neotech, Hostway, Intergenia, Internap, Layered Tech, Level3, Limelight Networks, Melbourne IT, Mirror Image, NaviSite, Network Solutions, NTT America, OpSource, Peak 10, Peer1, The Planet, Rackspace, Register.com, Savvis, ServerCentral, ServePath, SoftLayer, SunGard, Terremark, United Internet, ViaWest, Verio (NTT), Verizon, WebSite Pros and Yahoo.

Tier1 Research (T1R), a division of The 451 Group, analyzes the financial and industry implications of developments affecting public and private companies within the IT, communications and Internet sectors. Tier1 blends traditional Wall Street investment research with industry analysis to deliver dynamic market and financial intelligence. Clients include institutional investors and technology vendors, along with end users and venture capitalists. Clients leverage Tier1 Research’s analytical insight for idea generation, trend identification, due diligence and grounded opinions, as well as metrics and forecasts on companies and industries covered. Since its founding in August 2000, Tier1 Research’s coverage has spanned the largest publicly held technology companies as well as smaller, pioneering public and privately held companies.

To learn more, please visit: www.tier1research.com.

San Antonio, Texas - (The Hosting News) - January 9, 2008 - Rackspace Managed Hosting, has enhanced the company’s MyRackspace customer portal, to include mobile access with more convenient choices in receiving secure information about customers’ hosted infrastructure.

Joel Weierman, lead operations engineer, Webmetrics noted, ”As a Rackspace customer and provider of web performance monitoring solutions, our goal is to help our customers maximize their web applications by ensuring 24/7/365 uptime and performance integrity. The new mobile access to the MyRackspace portal makes it much easier for us to make sure our monitoring system is optimized 24/7 by managing support tickets over our mobile phones anytime, day or night. It’s great to see Rackspace responding to the needs of customers to make access to their support system as easy as possible.”

Recognizing that customers are often away from their computers, Rackspace has taken the first step in optimizing mobile access to its customer portal, allowing customers to create and manage support tickets using their Blackberry, iPhone, among other solutions.

Viewed as a critical investment in customer communication, the MyRackspace portal is continually evolving with major updates released on a bi-monthly basis. Additional new features include:

— Firewall Control Panel allowing authorized users to manage firewall permissions in real-time

— Suggestions Center enabling greater collaboration among the Rackspace customer community and creating an additional channel for Rackspace to listen to customer requests and share its extensive hosting knowledge

— Ticket attachment giving customers the option to securely attach a document to support tickets and provide more information to their support team about issues or queries

— Release Communication Center containing portal release information as new versions of the MyRackspace portal are launched every other month

Tony Campbell, Director of Software Development, Rackspace Managed Hosting added, ”Our customer portal is mission-critical in providing customers with timely information regarding their IT infrastructure as well as giving us direct customer feedback on our product and service offerings. Adding these new features and particularly mobile access to the portal enhances the way we communicate with our customer community and deliver Fanatical Support.”

Upcoming developments to the MyRackspace portal will include customer access to historical availability monitoring data as well as Managed Backup Threshold Alerts to provide an early warning system that notifies customers before reaching critical backup subscription usage.

A recognized global managed hosting firm, Rackspace Managed Hosting is a service organization delivering enterprise-level web infrastructure and managed services to businesses of all sizes. Serving more than 15,000 customers across eight data centers worldwide, Rackspace integrates the industry’s best technologies for each customer need and delivers it as a service via the company’s award-winning Fanatical Support. Founded in 1998, Rackspace has grown more than 50 percent a year since the company’s inception.

For more information about Rackspace Managed Hosting, please visit: www.rackspace.com.

San Antonio, Texas - (The Hosting News) - December 12, 2007 - Rackspace Managed Hosting, has entered into an agreement with Cypress Semiconductor Corp., to host its website infrastructure, to facilitate Cypress’ recently redesigned website, designed to provide faster access to product information and software downloads.

Nick Wemyss, Director of Web Marketing and Development at Cypress noted, ”There is a large and growing global demand for Cypress technical information and software downloads, and the driving distribution platform is our website. As we look to use cypress.com for more e-commerce applications, uptime is becoming increasingly more important. Rackspace offers a solid infrastructure and flexibility that will solidify our online presence and extend our ability to deliver solutions to our growing customer base.”

The redesigned website puts a more prominent focus on Cypress’s PSoC(R) mixed-signal arrays and other programmable products, mirroring the company’s transformation into a provider of programmable solutions. The new Cypress.com includes dynamic drop-down menus that enable users, without clicking, to navigate two- and three-levels for faster access to information on software, technical documentation, samples, kits, training, etc. The site has been designed to improve usability by eliminating browser scrolling on the home page and by having personalized search terms remembered automatically in the search tool. In addition, customers are now able to log in to their customized “MyCypress” extranet and view their shopping cart for the online store without having to leave their current location on the site.

Glenn Reinus, Senior Vice President of worldwide sales, Rackspace Managed Hosting remarked, ”Companies like Cypress rely on Rackspace because running a website is our core competency, leaving their IT staff to focus more on software integration and delivery. Intensive Hosting takes a consultative approach with our enterprise customers and we take pride in building a deep working relationship, effectively becoming an integral component of a customer’s IT department.”

With 25 servers and devices, including advanced custom monitoring services, managed backup and storage, and a cluster of three Google search servers, which Wemyss says will improve their search engine, Cypress relies on Rackspace’s 24/7/365 Fanatical Support(R) demanded by a global service provider.

Cypress delivers high-performance, mixed-signal, programmable solutions that provide customers with rapid time-to-market and exceptional system value. Cypress offerings include the PSoC Programmable System-on-Chip, USB controllers, general-purpose programmable clocks and memories. Cypress also offers wired and wireless connectivity solutions ranging from its WirelessUSB radio system-on-chip, to West Bridge and EZ-USB FX2LP controllers that enhance connectivity and performance in multimedia handsets. Cypress serves numerous markets including consumer, computation, data communications, automotive, industrial, and solar power. Cypress trades on the NYSE under the ticker symbol CY.

A recognized global managed hosting firm, Rackspace Managed Hosting is a service organization delivering enterprise-level web infrastructure and managed services to businesses of all sizes. Serving more than 15,000 customers across eight data centers worldwide, Rackspace integrates the industry’s best technologies for each customer need and delivers it as a service via the company’s award-winning Fanatical Support. Founded in 1998, Rackspace has grown more than 50 percent a year since the company’s inception.

To learn more about Cypress, please visit: www.cypress.com.

For more information about Rackspace Managed Hosting, please visit: www.rackspace.com.

Atlanta, Georgia - (The Hosting News) - October 31, 2007 - Internet performance network services company, Internap Network Services Corporation, was chosen to power Defender Hosting, with its flow control platform technology, designed to enhance network performance and route optimization.

Through the FCP, it is expected that Internap’s intelligent route-control technology will also enable decreased operational expenditures. In pursuit of a way to better manage bandwidth and resolve operational expenditures used to manually troubleshoot their network, Defender Hosting selected Internap based on their high-quality technology and track record of successful, automated network optimization. As a result, Defender Hosting has experienced a seamless improvement in traffic management, reduced latency and packet loss and decreased Internet routing issues.

Thomas Kiblin, CEO of Defender Hosting remarked, ”Internap is known for its quick turnaround and high-quality, cutting-edge technology for network maintenance and management. Thanks to Internap, we can focus on serving our customers and delivering them a quality experience.”

Internap’s FCPs intelligently route traffic across Defender Hosting’s network while managing connectivity. In addition, the technology is configured to route based on cost, performance and application. The FCP improves transfer speeds and features robust reporting tools for tracking comprehensive network performance data over multiple service providers.

Tim Sullivan, Chief Technology Officer for Internap added, ”Our mission is to enable our customers to focus on their core businesses and we are pleased Defender Hosting can rely on our sophisticated technology. Through our robust suite of services, customers like Defender Hosting can continue to enjoy cost savings and improved performance.”

The Internap FCP product line includes solutions to manage traffic from 10 megabits per second up to 10 gigabits per second and beyond. Features include intelligent load balancing, which increases the overall efficiency of managing bandwidth costs while providing visibility into network performance. The FCP is scalable to support the growing bandwidth requirements of Web-centric businesses. The FCP’s measurement tool, FlowView, also allows customers to proactively address impacts from software and application changes. Staff can pinpoint problems quickly and use end-to-end visibility to make informed decisions. Reporting to executive management is simplified, allowing customers to monitor application performance using real-time statistics on metrics such as packet loss, latency and jitter.

Defender Hosting, a managed virtualization hosting provider, has deployed over 10,000 virtual machines for businesses of all sizes across the globe, handling design, deployment, monitoring, and management services for its customers.

Internap is an intelligent route control solution, developed to provide reliability, performance and security to the Internet, as well as a global integrated content delivery service, designed to enable businesses to stream digital media over the Internet. The company provides patented and patent-pending technologies that address the inherent weaknesses of the Internet, to enable enterprises to deploy business-critical applications such as e-commerce, VoIP, and audio/video across IP networks. The company provides additional solutions, including video and audio streaming, advertising placement, reporting and analysis, live event broadcasting, media asset management, integrated web hosting and consulting services. Internap currently serves more than 3,000 customers throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Australia.

For more information about Defender Hosting, please visit: www.deftechgroup.com.

To learn more about Internap, please visit: www.internap.com.

San Antonio, Texas - (The Hosting News) - October 4, 2007 - Rackspace Managed Hosting, has added to its IT hosting services portfolio, with the acquisition of e-mail hosting specialist, Webmail.us, including over 600,000 business mailboxes under management.

Rackspace and Webmail.us intend to focus on providing a comprehensive mail platform and related services to companies of all sizes. Rackspace’s acquisition of Webmail.us highlights the company’s investment to transform traditional IT functions into consumable services via the web. As more and more enterprises transition from purchasing in-house IT assets to leveraging service providers, Rackspace plans to offer a suite of hosted IT services that are more reliable and provide better value than traditional IT. Rackspace has already made a seamless expansion into the mail industry, which it views as the first step in giving businesses a chance to solve a persistent and growing challenge with a better solution.

Melanie Posey, research director at IDC remarked, ”Web-delivered business-class services remove the IT administration burden from companies that lack large IT staffs and/or want to concentrate more fully on their core business functions. Hosting companies that meet this need and expand their portfolios to include key on-demand functionality such as managed messaging can differentiate themselves from competitors. Rackspace’s acquisition of Webmail.us illustrates the company’s commitment to innovating in the hosted services market and responding to customer demand.”

Lew Moorman, Senior Vice President of corporate strategy and product development at Rackspace Managed Hosting commented, ”For years, Rackspace has built Fanatical Support focused on making our customers’ web presence reliable and easy to manage. Today, we’re expanding our vision and plan to do the same for IT hosting. Messaging and collaboration are Rackspace’s first major steps in expanding our product portfolio to include hosted IT services. Webmail.us has developed a world-class product set and shares our deep commitment to customer service. We are natural partners and we will collaborate to strengthen and complement our existing mail portfolio.”

Pat Matthews, President of Webmail.us added, ”Rackspace already hosts our entire email hosting infrastructure and has been our most critical business associate. Experiencing Fanatical Support first-hand has proven to us that Rackspace is a different kind of company - one that is truly dedicated to its customers. In working with Rackspace for more than four years, we’ve realized that our companies share great synergies and visions for the future. Rackspace realizes the market shift towards IT hosting and the mission critical nature of business-class email. This partnership strengthens our ability to serve businesses that rely on email but don’t want to manage it themselves.”

Rackspace and Webmail.us will join forces to create innovative new products focused on enterprise-class mail functionality. The companies have previously collaborated to offer Rackspace’s current Global Messaging Portfolio, including Noteworthy Managed Mail. The Webmail.us company headquarters will continue to be based in Blacksburg, Va.

Webmail.us, along with its growing community of private-label reseller partners, provides more than 70,000 small, medium, and geographically dispersed companies with corporate email hosting services. The company manages and maintains the email software and hosting infrastructure, freeing up personnel resources and eliminating the need for organizations to purchase email-related hardware, software, and security services all for a fraction of the cost of purchasing and managing email services in-house. The company’s mission critical software applications are housed in carrier-grade data centers to ensure maximum uptime. Founded in 1999, Webmail.us is headquartered in Blacksburg, Virginia and was just named the 217th fastest-growing, privately held company in America by Inc. Magazine.

A recognized global managed hosting firm, Rackspace Managed Hosting is a service organization delivering enterprise-level web infrastructure and managed services to businesses of all sizes. Serving more than 15,000 customers across eight data centers worldwide, Rackspace integrates the industry’s best technologies for each customer need and delivers it as a service via the company’s award-winning Fanatical Support. Founded in 1998, Rackspace has grown more than 50 percent a year since the company’s inception.

To learn more about Webmail.us, please visit www.webmail.us.

For more information about Rackspace Managed Hosting, please visit: www.rackspace.com.

Denver, Colorado - (The Hosting News) - August 27, 2007 - The Samsonite travel lifestyle company, has consolidated its existing website hosting, by selecting adaptable colocation and managed hosting solutions firm, ViaWest, while relocating seven of its 20 global websites, to ViaWest’s colocation services.

Samsonite, which previously managed the seven websites internally, is one of a growing number of organizations migrating to outsourcing these services. According to Frost and Sullivan’s Stratecast Partners, companies that subscribe to hosted IT infrastructure services see dramatic savings - up to 75 percent, compared to owning and operating their own facility.

Roy Dimoff, CEO and Co-founder of ViaWest remarked, ”Both small and large enterprises are seeing the benefit in outsourcing their IT infrastructures services, not only in operational efficiency but in time and savings. This is evident with ViaWest’s sales pipeline as well as the steady increase in demand for managed hosting and colocation throughout the industry.”

Dan Greenwood, IT manager, technical operations and development at Samsonite offered, ”Samsonite has traditionally had multiple regions operating several independent websites and e-commerce services. As our Internet presence continues to grow, along with our initiative to consolidate and globalize applications, it is more effective to have our Internet operations housed and managed by one entity to control costs, reduce operational complexities and minimize downtime risks.”

Samsonite operates more than 20 global websites offering online shoppers products that fulfill the travel and lifestyle needs of the sophisticated traveler. The company’s e-commerce operations has continued to increase and requires a robust data center and comprehensive data services to sustain its growth and support its online commerce. ViaWest will provide managed hosting and colocation services for Samsonite websites as well as backup, database and security support.

ViaWest provides customers with a world-class facility with easy access to its equipment, a backbone network, redundant power and environmental controls, fire detection systems, high-level security, onsite service and extensive disaster recovery plans.

ViaWest expanded efforts in Salt Lake City, acquiring a third new
10,000 sq. ft. Tier 1 data center that nearly doubled its service capacity in Utah, earlier this year, located in the Cottonwood Heights area in the Old Mill Office Park.

Samsonite is the worldwide leader in travel accessories, combining notable style with the latest design technology and the utmost attention to quality and durability. Utilizing top designer expertise from around the globe, Samsonite creates unparalleled products that fulfill the travel and lifestyle needs of the sophisticated traveler. For 97 years, Samsonite has continued to build upon this rich design heritage. Samsonite markets products under the Samsonite, Samsonite Black Label, Samsonite OutLab, American Tourister, Lacoste, Timberland and Lambertson Truex brands. Samsonite. Life’s a journey.

ViaWest’s managed hosting solution offers businesses a platform for maintaining mission-critical business applications. Its dedicated hosting team is comprised of experienced engineers who provide proactive troubleshooting and support. ViaWest provides colocation, managed hosting solutions and comprehensive services to mid-sized businesses. Headquartered in Denver, Colorado, with additional Tier 1 data centers in Utah and Oregon, ViaWest offers technology infrastructure solutions and critical resources to support business needs. ViaWest currently serves thousands of customers nationwide including Frontier Airlines, the Denver Broncos, Exclusive Resorts and Chipotle. The company was named One of Denver’s Top Corporate Philanthropists and One of Colorado’s Top 10 Mid-size Best Companies to Work For.

For more information about ViaWest, please visit: www.viawest.net.

Atlanta, Georgia - (The Hosting News) - July 30, 2007 - Internet performance network services company, Internap Network Services Corporation, has entered into a three-year business relationship with privately held data center facilities and managed services firm, Quality Technology Services (QualityTech).

Under terms of the agreement, Internap will be the preferred provider of content delivery network (CDN) services and the exclusive provider of IP connectivity services to all of QualityTech’s customers, including 350 recently acquired enterprise accounts. The contract represents revenues of approximately $15 million for value-added CDN and IP over the three-year term. This agreement is hoped to significantly strengthen Internap’s position as a leader in the Internet solutions category.

James P. DeBlasio, President and Chief Executive Officer of Internap remarked, ”This is one of the largest agreements in Internap’s history and another significant win in the CDN/IP space. QualityTech’s decision to select Internap for value-added Internet solutions validates our strategy of providing best-in-class, bundled solutions to meet the demands of enterprise customers. We are gratified that an increasing number of high quality service providers, like QualityTech, appreciate the highly differentiated approach inherent in Internap’s route optimized CDN and IP solutions. We look forward to providing the industry’s best service levels and technology solutions to QualityTech’s customers moving forward.”

Through Internap’s premium IP service, which uses Private Network Access Points (P-NAPs) to speed Internet traffic from one location to another, QualityTech’s customer traffic will avoid the congestion and bottlenecks of traditional single-carrier networks. The service includes proactive technical service and support - all backed by proactive Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for 100% uptime. Internap’s CDN is also the industry’s only global, high-capacity solution that takes advantage of this unique multi-carrier architecture. Both solutions benefit from Internap’s proprietary intelligent route control technology to ensure the consistent, reliable performance of mission-critical applications.

As part of the agreement, Internap will take down space in multiple QualityTech world-class data center facilities to help satisfy current and future market demand. QualityTech’s data centers feature industry-leading standards for security, environmental control and scalability. The infrastructure will support high power density deployments and is designed to provide maximum power and cooling up to 150 watts per square-foot. As a result, Internap can better meet the high power density needs of enterprises with increasingly complex applications, such as rich media and streaming video.

Mark Waddington, President of QualityTech remarked, ”With our recent growth, QualityTech was at a tipping point and needed to join forces with the right partner to enable our customers’ ability to reliably deploy mission-critical applications. As IP-based communications converge and the demand for networked services increases, our combined solution with Internap is a major step towards delivering the highest level of performance for our clients and supporting the unique requirements for emerging technologies such as streaming audio and video.”

QualityTech provides day-to-day IT operational support to improve operational efficiencies, mitigate risks and control costs associated with managing information technology infrastructure. Additional managed services, such as planning and consulting, configuration and implementation are also available to help meet IT requirements for deploying complex Internet applications. Both Internap and QualityTech will provide solutions to enterprises in industries ranging from financial services and e-commerce to gaming, media and entertainment.

Quality Technology Services (QualityTech) is a managed services and IT infrastructure company providing Managed Services, Data Center facilities, and Professional Services to businesses. Services are delivered via a national footprint of secure state-of-the-art Data Centers, a high-performance backbone and content delivery network, and an ITIL certified world-class services organization. QualityTech provides enterprises the ability to deploy, manage and scale their mission-critical IT operations for optimum performance and cost-efficiency.

Internap is an intelligent route control solution, developed to provide reliability, performance and security to the Internet, as well as a global integrated content delivery service, designed to enable businesses to stream digital media over the Internet. The company provides patented and patent-pending technologies that address the inherent weaknesses of the Internet, to enable enterprises to deploy business-critical applications such as e-commerce, VoIP, and audio/video across IP networks. The company provides additional solutions, including video and audio streaming, advertising placement, reporting and analysis, live event broadcasting, media asset management, integrated web hosting and consulting services. Internap currently serves more than 3,000 customers throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Australia.

For more information about Quality Technology Services, please visit: www.qualitytech.com.

To learn more about Internap, please visit: www.internap.com.

San Antonio, Texas - (The Hosting News) - June 29, 2007 - Managed web hosting services company, Rackspace, has been selected by FunnyorDie.com, to power the new comedy video website, created by actor Will Ferrell and co-producer, Adam McKay’s company, Gary Sanchez Productions.

Premiering two months ago, FunnyorDie.com has had over 13 million unique visitors, introducing the need for a powerful and scalable infrastructure to accommodate the site’s instant and growing popularity. The most popular video, ”The Landlord,” featuring Will Ferrell, received more than 34 million views in less than two months. Under the 12-month agreement, Rackspace created a customized, high-availability environment with multiple layers of redundancy at the network and hardware level to ensure the website’s continued success.

Mitch Galbraith, Chief Operating Officer of FunnyorDie.com offered, ”FunnyorDie.com launched with a bang, attracting more than seven-million page views in the first week. We needed to get a robust infrastructure in place to support the volume of traffic. We lined up Rackspace to design the appropriate infrastructure, and they’ve delivered each step of the way with their technical guidance and expertise in enterprise Linux. The Rackspace team takes the success of our site personally, and they are available for us 24/7, which is strategic for us since people visit our site around the clock.”

As part of Rackspace’ s Intensive Hosting for Enterprise Linux offering, Rackspace designed a configuration architected for full redundancy, maximum processing power and seamless content delivery. Running Red Hat Enterprise Linux on both Rackspace-built servers as well as HP ProLiant DL385 enterprise servers, the FunnyorDie.com configuration includes a scalable managed backup solution from a centralized network for the vast amount of digital content. The high availability environment also includes an advanced custom monitoring system using Cacti logging tools to write custom monitoring shells and provide real-time monitoring of each device and application. Rackspace’s Intensive Hosting also provides managed security, performance-enhancing gear and advanced MySQL database services.

Glenn Reinus, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales at Rackspace Managed Hosting remarked, ”FunnyorDie.com is a trailblazer in the online video space. With a growing audience and thousands of hilarious videos, many featuring top celebrities, they need a reliable infrastructure behind their digital community. Funny or Die trusts Rackspace’s new media hosting expertise to support a superior user experience and ultimately enable a platform for funny people around the world.”

Funny or Die is a new video website that focuses exclusively on comedy. The web site launched in April of 2007 and is already one of the most visited comedy sites on the web, according to publicly available data at www.quantcast.com. The web site’s new genre of content features the raw and experimental look and feel of user-generated video, turbocharged with celebrity talent. An example of the powerful appeal of this style of content is ”The Landlord,” a video featuring Funny or Die founders Will Ferrell and Adam McKay. The video, depicting an altercation between Will Ferrell and his tough-as-nails landlord (played by a 2 year-old girl), has been viewed over 34 million times. The company has offices in Palo Alto and Los Angeles, California and is funded by Sequoia Capital.

A recognized global managed hosting firm, Rackspace Managed Hosting is a service organization delivering enterprise-level web infrastructure and managed services to businesses of all sizes. Serving more than 10,000 customers across seven data centers worldwide, Rackspace integrates the industry’s best technologies for each customer need and delivers it as a service via the company’s award-winning Fanatical Support. Founded in 1998, Rackspace has grown more than 50 percent a year since the company’s inception.

To learn more about Funny or Die, Inc., please visit: www.funnyordie.com.

For more information about Rackspace Managed Hosting, please visit: www.rackspace.com.

San Antonio, Texas - (The Hosting News) - June 25, 2007 - The founders and senior executives of managed web hosting services company, Rackspace, have been recognized on the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year honors list. Lanham Napier, President and CEO, Graham Weston, Executive Chairman, and Co-Founders, Patrick Condon and Dirk Elmendorf, were named for success in innovation, financial performance, and personal commitment to Rackspace and its employees.

Don Calvin, Partner and Program Director of the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur Of The Year program in Austin remarked, ”For 21 years, Ernst and Young has recognized outstanding entrepreneurship through our Entrepreneur Of The Year program. This year’s award recipients are truly an inspiration to all. We salute them for their drive, determination and hard work and congratulate them on their success.”

According to the company, Rackspace was founded in 1998 when Mr. Weston invested seed capital in an idea presented by three Trinity University students, including Messrs. Elmendorf and Condon, with a deep interest in and understanding of technology. Their concept of web hosting was ahead of the curve, providing a lucrative business that has grown in revenue by approximately 50 percent each year. Mr. Napier joined the team in 2000 as CFO, steering the company through the technology downturn with a steady hand and long-term financial outlook that proved to be the point of difference between Rackspace and its competition. Through a common goal of building one of the world’s greatest service companies, the four entrepreneurs have generated a growing demand for web hosting backed by Fanatical Support, the renowned customer service experience at Rackspace.

Graham Weston, Executive Chairman at Rackspace Managed Hosting remarked, ”Word of mouth has driven our growth to 1,600 Rackers in eight years. Our customers love the service focus - our Fanatical Support - which would not be possible without the dedication our Rackers bring everyday.”

The Entrepreneur Of The Year program was created 21 years ago to celebrate great entrepreneurs and heighten awareness of the economic impact of entrepreneurial ventures. Messrs. Napier, Weston, Condon and Elmendorf were selected by an independent panel of judges comprised of local community and business leaders. The judging criteria includes a thorough assessment of recent financial performance, strategic direction and product or service innovation, company leadership including personal integrity, values and key employee initiatives, and community involvement. The Rackspace honorees will be inducted into the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur Of The Year Hall of Fame and become eligible for the national Entrepreneur Of The Year award in November.

The Entrepreneur Of The Year awards program was created and is produced by professional services firm Ernst and Young LLP. As the first award of its kind, the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur Of The Year Award recognizes outstanding entrepreneurs who are building and leading dynamic and growing businesses. The program, which celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2006, honors entrepreneurs through regional, national and global award programs in over 125 cities and 40 countries.

Ernst and Young, a global leader in professional services, is committed to enhancing the public’s trust in professional services firms and in the quality of financial reporting. Its 114,000 people in 140 countries pursue the highest levels of integrity, quality, and professionalism in providing a range of sophisticated services centered on our core competencies of auditing, accounting, tax, and transactions. Further information about Ernst and Young and its approach to a variety of business issues can be found at www.ey.com/perspectives. Ernst and Young refers to the global organization of member firms of Ernst and Young Global Limited, a U.K. company limited by guarantee, each of which is a separate legal entity.

A recognized global managed hosting firm, Rackspace Managed Hosting is a service organization delivering enterprise-level web infrastructure and managed services to businesses of all sizes. Serving more than 10,000 customers across seven data centers worldwide, Rackspace integrates the industry’s best technologies for each customer need and delivers it as a service via the company’s award-winning Fanatical Support. Founded in 1998, Rackspace has grown more than 50 percent a year since the company’s inception.

To learn more about Rackspace Managed Hosting, please visit: www.rackspace.com.

San Antonio, Texas - (The Hosting News) - June 14, 2007 - Managed web hosting services company, Rackspace, has unveiled plans to adopt a new GreenSpace Initiative, to promote environmental responsibility, through a partnership with national marketer of carbon offsets and renewable energy credits (RECs) firm, NativeEnergy.

John Engates, Chief Technology Officer of Rackspace Managed Hosting explained, ”Enterprise computing is a major contributor to global energy consumption and carbon emissions; therefore, we believe it is Rackspace’s responsibility as a web hosting provider to tackle environmental responsibility on our end. Working with NativeEnergy to offset our carbon emissions is a major step for us, but we believe offsetting alone is not the answer. Conservation and changing behavior is of equal importance, so we are working on multiple projects in the data centers to conserve energy, and we are also working internally to educate our employees on changing to an eco-friendly lifestyle.”

In April 2007, Rackspace announced the company’s membership to The Green Grid, a non-profit consortium dedicated to advancing energy efficiency in data centers and business computing ecosystems.

Through the new initiative, Rackspace will offer carbon-neutral web hosting to customers. a new initiative to promote environmental responsibility across the company. Dubbed internally as ”GreenSpace,” the company-wide program will promote energy conservation, carbon offsets and employee education to reduce Rackspace’s contribution to climate change.

As part of the company’s GreenSpace campaign, Rackspace recently entered into a relationship with NativeEnergy, a leading national marketer of renewable energy credits and carbon offsets, to offer carbon-neutral web hosting to all new customers. Rackspace will work with NativeEnergy to invest in renewable energy projects to offset carbon emissions produced by customer servers managed within Rackspace’s data centers. Rackspace’s investments will support the Owl Feather War Bonnet Wind Farm project to bring wind turbine power to the Rosebud Sioux Reservation in South Dakota, and also helps support the Schrack Family Dairy Farm Methane Project in Pennsylvania. Currently, Rackspace adds more than 400 new servers a month to its US-based data centers, and Rackspace will offset the carbon emissions for each new customer server brought online.

Tom Boucher, President and CEO, NativeEnergy remarked, ”People everywhere can make positive changes for the environment, and working together with the right corporations and partners can truly drive collective power for change. We applaud Rackspace for taking steps in the right direction and tackling environmental responsibility at the customer level as well as the corporate level. This sends a powerful message about change that we hope will be emulated by others in the IT community.”

In October 2006, Rackspace’s United Kingdom-based office launched a similar program with the International Tree Foundation, Britain’s longest-standing tree planting charity. The quantity of carbon emitted through customer servers hosted with Rackspace is calculated and then trees are planted to offset this amount. Rackspace has planted more than 1,100 trees to date through the program.

Energy conservation throughout Rackspace’s eight data centers worldwide is a key focus of Rackspace’s GreenSpace initiative. Rackspace designs all of its data centers with power conservation in mind and recently unveiled a new UK data center that will operate on renewable energy. Historically, Rackspace has always leveraged energy efficient hardware and equipment in the data center, for example, announcing to customers in 2005 the adoption of Dual-Core AMD Opteron Series processors, which consume less electricity than prior processor models. Additionally, Rackspace recently introduced the latest generations of both Intel and AMD low voltage processors. These low voltage processors allow customers to generate power savings when right-sizing their configuration.

Additionally, a major component of the company’s GreenSpace strategy is to provide Rackspace employees and their families with information on environmental conservation and education programs throughout San Antonio. Rackspace hosted its first ”Green Day” event on Thursday, June 7, inviting more than fifteen different vendors and non-profit organizations to present employees with environmentally-friendly tips and product alternatives. Rackspace employees enjoyed test drives of Lexus hybrid vehicles and Segway scooters, learned of local recycling options for electronics and other materials, and participated in hands-on demonstrations on mulching and composting outdoor remains.

Native American majority-owned, NativeEnergy is a national marketer of carbon offsets and renewable energy credits (RECs), offering individuals and organizations a means to compensate for their global warming pollution, or to effectively power their homes and businesses with renewable energy. NativeEnergy’s business process brings upfront payment to renewable projects for their estimated future REC or offset output, enabling its customers to help directly finance the construction of new wind farms and other renewable energy projects, such as Native American and Native Alaskan wind farms, and wind turbines and methane digesters on family dairy farms. These projects reduce our reliance on fossil fuels to meet the nation’s electricity needs, and reduce emissions on the farms. NativeEnergy also offers Green-e certified RECs from operating wind farms and third party-verified offsets from operating CO2 mitigation projects.

A recognized leader in the global managed hosting market, Rackspace Managed Hosting is a service organization delivering enterprise-level web infrastructure and managed services to businesses of all sizes. Serving more than 10,000 customers across seven data centers worldwide, Rackspace integrates the industry’s best technologies for each customer need and delivers it as a service via the company’s award-winning Fanatical Support. Founded in 1998, Rackspace has grown more than 50 percent a year since the company’s inception.

For more information on the GreenSpace initiative, please visit: www.rackspace.com/information/events/green.php.

To learn more about Native Energy, please visit: www.nativeenergy.com.

For more information about Rackspace Managed Hosting, please visit: www.rackspace.com.

Chicago, Illinois - (The Hosting News) - June 12, 2007 - Managed hosting provider, FastServers.Net, has debuted Dedicated Microsoft Exchange 2003 hosting servers. The fully managed Velocity Exchange series of Windows Dedicated Servers includes complete setup, configuration, and administration services.

In addition, Patch management, security updates, and full monitoring are provided at no additional costs. FastServers.Net also introduces Easy Exchange Administrator Control Panel for adding, deleting, configuring and reselling mailboxes quickly and easily.

Every Exchange Hosting server comes with a hardware-based firewall, server anti virus software, and an Advanced anti spam solution. Velocity Exchange servers come with 1500GB of high quality bandwidth, 100% Network Uptime, Free Priority Support, and 10GB Managed Remote Backup with 7 day retention. Velocity Exchange servers are secured with a 128-bit SSL Certificate and automatic updates for added security.

Using the Easy Exchange Administrator Control Panel, organizations can create and add new domains, resell exchange hosting, add new email accounts, enable/disable POP3, IMAP, SMTP, OutlookWebAccess, Outlook MobileAccess, Global Address Book, control the number of emails/aliases/shared folders per domain, and enable/disable accounts. FastServers.Net’s built-in reseller functionality was developed to allow web hosting companies, consulting organizations, and agencies the ability to offer Enterprise level email hosting without the need for an Exchange Administrator.

Velocity Exchange servers are maintained by a dedicated team of Microsoft Dedicated Exchange Hosting experts available 24×7x365. FastServers.Net offers custom solutions to meet the needs of the most demanding Enterprise-level companies and organizations.

Aaron Phillips, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at FastServers.Net remarked, ”As one of the first hosting companies to offer fully managed Microsoft Exchange Hosting servers, FastServers.Net is positioned to become a leader in the Exchange market by deploying powerful, yet easy to use Exchange solutions for organizations of all sizes.”

FastServers.Net features managed dedicated servers using Dell PowerEdge Servers, High Quality Bandwidth, and exclusive server management called DEFCON Management Services. A Managed Dedicated Server at FastServers.Net includes full server monitoring and recovery, patches and upgrades, advanced technical support, and enhanced security features. Partnering with leading vendors such as Microsoft, Red Hat, cPanel, Plesk, HELM, Level(3), InterNAP, Urchin, among others, the company was founded in 1996 by Ian Andrusyk and Travis Schaffner in Sumner, Iowa. FastServers.Net currently has datacenters in Cedar Falls and Fremont, California. The Midwest Data Center is powered by Internap (www.internap.com) and Hurricane Electric (www.he.net) with direct fiber connections to Equnix in Chicago. FastServers.Net competitors include Rackspace (www.rackspace.com), Interland (www.interland.com), Verio (www.verio.com, EV1Servers (www.ev1servers.net), and The Planet (www.theplanet.net).

To learn more about the Exchange offerings, please visit: www.fastservers.net/products-services/dedicated-server-exchange-hosting.html.

For more information about FastServers, please visit: www.fastservers.net.