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Through a partnership with Members Online, an association management
firm, C I Host has become the web host for more than two dozen
national organizations representing a variety of business and
recreational activities, from accountants to veterinarians to pro
shops, with more than 1 million members.
With C I Host growing at a rate of more than 5,000 clients a month and
maintaining one of the lowest churn rates in the industry, this
addition will solidify its position as one of the world's fastest
growing and most financially stable web hosts.
"We are extremely pleased to have Members Online as one of our most
valued Private Label resellers," said Christopher Faulkner, CEO of C
I Host. "This agreement will bring the members of the associations
served by Members Online a higher level of online business presence
and will benefit both Members Online and C I Host."
Members Online will be able to sell C I Host's web hosting and Internet
solutions services under its own label, thus being able to offer its
clients better products, boosting its bottom line, and enhancing its
branding.
"We are proud to be a Private Label reseller for C I Host and look
forward to expanding the relationship," said Kevin McCann, CEO of
Salocity.com and Members Online. "C I Host will enable us to offer
our clients the highest quality of Web hosting services and, in turn,
will help us grow our company."
CI Host's reseller program, started in 1996, has become one of the
most robust reseller programs in web hosting, and has been expanded
over the years to offer several levels of agreements, depending up on
the extent of involvement that the reseller wants.
Members Online is a reseller for C I Host on a Private Label Partner
basis, one of the highest reseller levels that the company offers.
"Private Label Partner is the ultimate level of reselling, allowing for
customized, branded versions of our most popular server and domain
software," Faulkner said. "The partner's logos and messages will be
on the dedicated servers that they are selling to clients - a great
feature for their branding."
CI Host software packages that Private Label Partners can offer under
their own label include:
- MonsterControls - Domain-level web-based control panel
personalized with the partner's logos and messages
- MonsterBilling - Customized billing system that enables our
partners to bill their clients directly using this branded,
online system
- TicketMonster - Online support system personalized with the
partner's logos and messages
- MonsterControlsD - Server administrator-level web-based control
panel personalized
In addition to adding the top Private
Label category, C I Host expanded its reseller program in July to
allow Standard Resellers and Premier Identity Resellers to private
label custom Web site design, merchant accounts, such as Visa,
MasterCard, and American Express; SSL Secure Server Certificates,
video conferencing, both hardware and software bundles, and
application servers.
Standard and Premier Resellers can private label dedicated servers,
both bulk and retail Domain Name Registration, e-Business in a Box,
eLearning (online training modules), search engine submission, news
release writing services, copyrighting and distribution and cyber
security products and services.
With Web hosting revenues expected to reach $25.8 billion by 2006, up
from $1.4 billion in 1999, and Web hosting being a capital intensive
business with hefty start-up costs, a solid, proven reseller program
like the one offered by C I Host is the best way for companies who
want to expand into web hosting to get into the business.
"Our Private Label Channel Partner Program allows CLECs, Telcos, and
other carriers to concentrate their business efforts on their primary
competency while at the same time offering their customer base
world-class web hosting services," Faulkner said. "By Outsourcing
your web hosting needs or Private Labeling, such companies can offer
their customers a robust hosting solution immediately at a fraction
of the cost of an in-house effort."
About C I Host
CI 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.
CI 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.
CI Host is a member of the Better Business Bureau's On-Line
Reliability Program.
CI Host is consistently ranked among the Top 5 Web hosting companies
out of 16,000 around the globe by c|net's Ultimate Web Host List,
HostIndex.com, and Web Host Directory. 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.
CI 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.
C I Host
1851 Central Drive #110
Bedford, Texas 76021
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