From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Jul 29 0:40:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3E2E1558B for ; Thu, 29 Jul 1999 00:40:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA01911 for ; Thu, 29 Jul 1999 00:41:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) To: advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Tim G: Press Release [Attention: Business/Technology Editors] Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 00:41:05 -0700 Message-ID: <1907.933234065@zippy.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is interesting. Other ISPs who use FreeBSD, please take heed of this fine example of how to craft a mutually beneficial plug.. :-) - Jordan ------- Forwarded Message Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 16:27:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim G To: jkh@FreeBSD.org Subject: Press Release [Attention: Business/Technology Editors] Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hi, My name is Tim Gaichas and I work for pair Networks in Pittsburgh. We recently sent the press release below to all of the Pittsburgh Media. It might be worth pointing out on your web site or in future press releases that the largest independent Web host in the World is 100% FreeBSD from Web servers to employee work stations. If you have any interest in working together on any PR in the future please let me know. Thanks, Tim G :-> - ------ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Tim Gaichas pair Networks (412) 681-6940 (private number -- DO NOT PUBLISH) fax (412) 681-6945 timg@pair.com http://www.pair.com PGH'S LARGEST IPP HITS NEW MILESTONE pair Networks Now Hosts Over 60,000 Web Sites from 145 Countries Pittsburgh, Penn. -- July, 27, 1999 -- pair Networks, Inc., the World's largest independently owned and operated paid hosting service, today announced it has surpassed the 60,000 Web site milestone. Tens of thousands of businesses in 145 countries utilize pair Networks' hosting services for e-commerce, marketing of products and services, online databases, and the global exchange of information. President and CEO Kevin Martin's business philosophy is to be honest with his customers and provide the absolute most scalable and reliable Web hosting services available anywhere for a fair price. His philosophy has paid off. pair Networks has tripled its customer base every year since 1996 and has become the World's largest independent IPP (Internet Presence Provider) with significant online advertising and positive word of mouth. "We're very pleased with our continued growth," states Martin. "Since our founding in 1995, customer demand has been strong and steady." While most IPP's try to offer every possible service associated with the Internet, Martin decided to focus on high quality, wholesale web hosting from the very beginning. "We wanted to do one thing and do it very well; it has really paid off." Most large scale web hosting companies cater to small and medium size business so that they can provide services to as many customers as possible without having to worry about the integrity of their networks or service upgrades. pair Networks has adopted a more long term view of Web hosting and provides a complete upgrade path for any size business. pair's web servers and network have been engineered to serve a full range of customer's Web sites and are capable of supporting up to tens of millions of hits per day. (hit = 1 web browser request for a Web page, image, or other document transferred over the Internet) "Our network is one of our strongest points," said Martin. "Taking advantage of diverse paths and the private peering of our backbone providers, we're able to consistently provide faster paths to most destinations on the Internet than a typical singly-connected provider." Four full DS-3 circuits provide external connectivity to pair's network, via three different backbone providers (a fourth will be added in October). The local network benefits from fully switched Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet, and is driven entirely by products from Extreme Networks and Cisco, industry leaders in routing and switching. In addition to a world class network, pair operates only the fastest Pentium II and Pentium III Web servers, which run the stable and powerful FreeBSD operating system in order to ensure maximum uptime and reliability. About pair's Products, Services, and Pricing pair Networks offers true virtual hosting (www.example.com) for as little as $5.95 per month. Complete e-commerce solutions start as low as $20.95 per month. Additionally, pair offers high-end business solutions such as QuickServe, a dedicated hosting program and PairList, a scalable e-mailing list service scheduled to debut by the end of the year. More information about products, services, and pricing can be found on pair Networks' Web site -- http://www.pair.com/ About pair Networks pair Networks, Inc., the World's largest independently owned and operated Web site hosting service, currently hosts over 60,000 unique Web sites and provides service to customers from more than 140 countries. The Web servers in their state of the art data center house more than 2 Terabytes of storage, delivering up to 100 million hits per day to site visitors. pair Networks has positioned itself as the global price / performance leader in Web site hosting, with a special emphasis on absolute reliability and scalability. Thousands of businesses rely on pair Networks for electronic commerce, online databases, and the global exchange of information. Based in Pittsburgh since its founding in 1995, pair Networks currently has 25 employees in Western Pennsylvania and is available on the Internet at http://www.pair.com. pair Networks also hosts many well known web sites such as http://www.tomshardware.com, http://www.simtel.net, http://www.98degrees.com, and http://www.bluesnews.com. # # # For more information please contact: http://www.pair.com/pair/press/ press@pair.com fax +1 412 681-6945 Editor's notes: Please note that "pair" is always spelled with a lowercase "p." Interviews are available for feature stories. pair, QuickServe, and PairList are registered trademarks of pair Networks, Inc. Other company names, brand names and product names may be trademarks of others companies. ------- End of Forwarded Message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message