LOS ANGELES, CA - September 21, 2003 - Globat, LLC, a leading Los Angeles-based Web hosting provider, today announced the launch of its proprietary server clustering system, B² , enabling it to deliver blue-chip ISP reliability at existing small business Web hosting fees. Developed over the course of a year, B² 's technology distributes the many services that make up the average Web hosting account over a network of machines, enabling servers to be optimized for a single task, increasing reliability and performance across the entire hosting network.

'A major issue for other ISPs is that one machine often serves the entire needs for hundreds of customers and tens of services at a time. If a machine is down for an hour, hundreds of sites are also down. With B² , the worst that can happen is that a single service, like FTP, may be briefly delayed as a redundant machine takes over the workload,' said Globat's CTO, Chris Ueland . 'While similar systems are used at large blue chip ISPs, the development of the B² technology presents Globat with the exclusive opportunity to offer blue-chip features, as standard, at the affordable end of the market.'

The proprietary software technologies developed by Globat are backed up by hardware technology from 'best of' providers. Nortel Networks' 'Alteon' load balancers are employed as virtual 'air traffic controllers' to route incoming requests between the relevant servers as efficiently as possible. Network Appliance RAID-4 filers provide high-end data storage and reliability. Multiple Intel powered high-end servers then maintain the multiple services Globat offers, such as e-mail, Web access, FTP, mySQL, and DNS.

Globat's B² clusters are housed at the Equinix data center in downtown Los Angeles , California , as also used by Google, Yahoo, and IBM. A second data center at Marina Del Rey, California , provides DNS and e-mail redundancy. More information about Google's network, including a visual tour of its data center, can be found at http://www.globat.com/b2/

About Globat, LLC.
Globat, LLC (http://www.globat.com) is one of the most established Web hosting companies in the United States, offering affordable, quality Web hosting solutions to nearly 100,000 customers worldwide. Globat.com founder Ben R. Neumann, a two-time Entrepreneur of the Year® award nominee, is a pioneer of the budget Web hosting industry since his start in 1994, when he founded Icom.com, which was later sold in 1998. With its unprecedented combination of low prices, high performance and dedicated 24/7/365 customer service, Globat.com continues to be the frontrunners of the hosting industry. The company is privately held and headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

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