CommuniTech.Net Network Operating Center Is Open BookFor Public.

Business Editors

KANSAS CITY, Mo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 8, 2000

CommuniTech.Net, rated as one of the top 20 of all webhosting companies worldwide by CNet and HostIndex, is the first hosting company to display MRTG graphs of all their Internet connections including real-time

They also have a photo archive of their Internet data center on their website, so clients and prospects can see the kind of capacity and hardware available to them.

"Most people don't see the kind of bandwidth capacity, servers, and network equipment that a webhosting company has available." stated Gabriel Murphy, co-founder of CommuniTech.Net. "We want to be one of the first webhosting companies to make sure our clients and the public know exactly what kind of connectivity we have in-house and what our traffic patterns, or 'bandwidth' looks like day-in and day-out. Our clients need to be able to rely on our data center for full redundancy and 100% availability. Our photo archive helps potential clients overcome any concerns about our reliability and scalability going forward."

CommuniTech.Net is one of the few webhosting companies whose data center is not co-located. Co-location is when a company locates their servers and/or network equipment at an off-site facility managed by another company. This arrangement usually ends up with the co-location customer locating their equipment hundreds, if not thousands of miles away. CommuniTech.Net owns and maintains all of their network equipment and servers in-house. Currently they maintain 4 DS-3 circuits via two OC-12 connections. Their newest DS-3 is through Sprint Communications, who has one of the best cross-country fiber optic networks today. The other DS-3 circuits are through MCI WorldCom (UUNet Technologies), Frontier Global Crossing, and Savvis Communications.

CommuniTech.Net has become, since its inception in 1997, the largest webhosting company in the Midwest. Not bad for a company that started with one ISDN line 2 years ago. With over 15,000 customers residing in 108 countries, revenue rose to over $2 million in 1999. The firm was co-founded by Gabriel Murphy, a 24 year old graduate in business and marketing from Cornell University and 19 year old Bryan Heitman, who is responsible for the firms' network engineering. Currently the firm has 30 employees and is adding nearly three a month.