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C I Host Encourages Geographic Diversity in Tsunami's Wake
December 30, 2004 (2:58 PM EST)
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DALLAS, Dec. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Natural disasters, like the 9.0 earthquake and resulting killer tsunami last Sunday, could create devastating tidal waves on the Internet as well -- were it not for geographic diversity in Web hosting data centers, according to Christopher Faulkner, CEO of C I Host, a global leader in Web hosting and data center operation.

Faulkner said, ""The disaster caused immeasurable, horrific suffering for the population in and around Indonesia. But looking beyond that tragedy, there could be ripple effects throughout the hosting industry and e-commerce in general if major companies' servers were hit.""

For that very contingency, C I Host recently launched a 2005 initiative to strategically place more data centers around North America and in Europe to provide backups in the event of catastrophes.

C I Host recently opened a data center in San Jose, Calif., and will also add locations in the New York City market and in London during 2005. C I Host now operates diverse data centers in the Dallas/Fort Worth market, Los Angeles and Chicago.

""The strategic, diverse locations provide different options for customers to visit the data centers at will, but more importantly, the different locations typically are not susceptible to any single catastrophic event,"" Faulkner said. ""If there is a problem at one location, there are multiple data centers ready to transfer the traffic and shift the work load.""

About C I Host:

C I Host ( http://www.cihost.com/ ), based in the Dallas/Fort Worth market, is a global Web hosting and Internet solutions provider serving 215,000 individual consumers and businesses in 190 countries worldwide. C I Host's headquarters and Network Operations Center are in Bedford, Texas, and the company operates additional diverse data centers in Los Angeles and Chicago.

CONTACT: D. Kent Pingel, VP, Corporate Communications & PR of C I Host, kentp@cihost.com+1-888-868-9931, ext. 7006, or

Web site: http://www.cihost.com/



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