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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE C I Host offers free email, web hosting for victims of World Trade Center and Pentagon bombing and their families; call center services, web space to American and United Airlines As Internet plays vital role in America's reaction to Tuesday's attack, C I Host reaches out to victims and to ensure the security of the country's communication backbone Bedford, Texas (September 11, 2001) - Stunned and angered by Tuesday's vicious attacks on the U.S., C I Host is working around the clock to reach out to the victims of the disasters and to ensure the safety and health of the Internet, which has become the nation's information and commercial backbone. "First I would like to extend our deepest sympathy to all the individuals and families who have been hurt or lost loved ones due to this senseless act of barbarism," said Christopher Faulkner, CEO of C I Host. "Their lives have been forever changed; so have ours." C I Host is monitoring its network 24/7 and working with the FBI in the cities where its servers are located to protect its share of the Web from attacks and to be able to alert the authorities to any unusual disturbances or indications of future attacks. "For many people in my generation, war just moved out of the movies and older relatives' stories and into our lives," said Faulkner, 24. "It's our Pearl Harbor, and whatever our role in this society is, we need to step up and do all we can to help America survive this attack, continue to function at the highest levels, and achieve a greater level of security." For the first time, the Internet is mature and pervasive enough to play a major role in how the U.S. handles a major conflict. In the first few hours after two highjacked planes crashed into the World Trade Center and one slammed into the Pentagon Tuesday morning, web sites for major news outlets and the airlines whose planes were high-jacked were swamped. People emailed friends and relatives in New York City and Washington DC from all over the globe to see if they were safe. Chat rooms were quickly established to share information. As the day wore on, even though cell phones couldn't get through and land phone lines were backed up, the Internet was still sending and receiving mail. "Because we know that the service we provide will be crucial in the coming days, we are offering free email and web-hosting to victims of the attacks and their families," Faulkner said. "And we must realize that in any extended conflict, email and personal web sites are likely to form crucial links between our military and their families. The picture of the lonely soldier writing home by candlelight this time will be more likely - still a lonely soldier - but one queuing up to use the computer and hoping his or her email will reach home." C I Host has taken the following steps to fulfill our responsibilities at this crucial juncture in history.
"The attacks on September 11 were on the business and defense centers of the U.S.," Faulkner said. "If attacks on our communications systems are also in the minds of our enemies, we must prevent those attacks from being carried out. Web hosting companies and Internet service providers across the U.S. must take steps to make sure their networks are healthy and minimize the ability of aggressors to bring down this indispensable communications network." In addtion C I Host will match up to $50,000 on a dollar-for-dollar basis of donations made by its 190 employees. "Our heartfelt sympathy goes out to everyone touched by this tragedy," said Faulkner. "But we know it takes more than kind thoughts for people to recover from something like this. That's why we are setting up this matching disaster fund so our company, jointly with our employees, can provide tangible help for the victims of this disaster and their families." About C I Host C I Host (www.cihost.com), is a Web hosting and Internet solutions provider, domain name registrar (DNR) and application service provider (ASP) serving 175,000 individual consumers and businesses in 179 countries worldwide. C I Host creates business-class 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 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 offers turnkey 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 three 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, Baltimore, Chicago 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 two OC-12 fiber connections, five DS-3 and two OC-3 lines from five diverse Internet backbones for a total of more than 2,000 Megabits of available bandwidth. ### Editorial Contact: Nancy St. Pierre C I Host (888) 868-9931 x 9426 nancys@cihost.com |
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