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Industry's first "100% Up High-Availability" Shared Hosting Platform

Increasing numbers of businesses depend on the Internet as tool to sell products and services. Because these businesses and consumers are increasingly rely on this channel as a valued resource, they expect and demand high-quality, high-performance and high-availability hosting services.

C I Host's answer to that demand is "x7," a hosting architecture that is always up, always available, extremely reliable and lightning fast. The x7 is the result of C I Host’s seven years of experience in shared web hosting and of service to more than 200,000 customers. That experience has given C I Host an intimate knowledge of the industry and of the needs of businesses just like yours.

C I Host spent more than $1 million in research and development and testing costs to bring your company the most reliable shared hosting architecture in the market.

High Availability Services at Affordable Prices

Most of the high-availability services being offered by hosting companies are "dedicated" services, which start at $1,000/month and range up to $50,000/month. C I Host's x7 shared hosting offerings begin at just $14/month. This low cost uniquely positions C I Host to serve businesses that don't need dedicated services nor the high cost of dedicated servers, but do require the high-performance and high-availability of these servers. X7 delivers top quality shared hosting services at very affordable prices.

Top Performing Equipment

C I Host's x7 Shared Hosting Services are built with best-of-breed components to the following specifications:

• Triple hot-swap power supplies fed from diverse 20 amp UPSed AC circuits
• Raid-10 SCSI drives with hardware based controller and hot-swap drives
• Triple Firewalls - network based, localized hardware and software based
• Dual 1000Mbps network interface cards fed from diverse switching gear
• Dual Premium Cooling Fans
• Dual Pentium Xeon 2.4Ghz processors
• 4 GB ECC RAM

Reliability – 100 Percent Uptime Guaranteed

100 percent uptime. Other hosting companies are offering 99.5 percent to 99.9 percent uptime on shared services. x7 shared hosting from C I Host delivers speed, performance and reliability 100 percent of the time.

Denial of Service Protection

Load-balancing device offers site-level security with wire-speed denial-of-service (DoS) prevention; firewall load-balancing provides scalable security for back-end databases and applications.

Proactive Server Monitoring

C I Host exclusive x7 monitoring system, SystemWatchTM - automatically isolates and kills damaging resource-intensive processes running on the server and minimizes impact to individual x7 accounts and the overall x7 system architecture to ensure 100 percent server uptime.