STRATO AG

STRATO wins third UK award for web hosting solution

STRATO, one of Europe’s leading web hosts, has been named the number one Shared Web Hosting provider in the UK by leading site the Web Host Directory, an independent reviewer of hosting services.

The award is given to the host that offers outstanding features at the most competitive rate, therefore providing the best value possible to the customer. As a Shared Web Hosting provider STRATO consistently offers highly accessible web hosting features to the highly developed UK web hosting market. This is the third award that STRATO has received from the Web Host Directory. It demonstrates STRATO’s continued effort to provide unbeatable service and quality.

Damian Schmidt, CEO of STRATO, said: “We are delighted to have won number one status in another category. I know that the UK is one of the most knowledgeable audiences when it comes to web hosting applications, and I am glad that STRATO has been recognised for consistently providing the highest standard of service. STRATO delivers inexpensive, high-tech, user-friendly and reliable web hosting packages and caters for varying customer requirements”.

The Web Host Directory is a neutral customer product site that awards the web hosts in each of its categories by tabulating votes received from visitors and reviewers to the site.

Each web host is given a rating of one to ten in six areas of performance, including cost, features, support, reliability and speed. The votes are tabulated and double checked for accuracy. Duplicates from the same voter are removed.

The Web Host Directory Review Board then determines the final winners through a combination of customer votes, customer reviews, and analysis of the nominees’ websites.

Notes to Editors

• STRATO is one of Europe’s leading web hosting providers and in June 2006 was recognised as Germany’s number one web host provider by the eco Association of the German Internet industry, for their ongoing focus on excellent quality and customer service
• STRATO is based in Berlin and currently has three million domains and one million customer contracts. STRATO operations currently exist across Europe, including Germany, UK, Italy, Spain, France and the Netherlands
• Besides complete domain packages and DSL broadband access, STRATO markets high-quality servers and solutions in the area of e-commerce
• STRATO was the first major European web host to receive the internationally coveted German Technical Control Board seal “BS7799“ which is now ISO 27001:2005. The British standard certification was awarded by the independent German testing organisation TÜV SÜD, for the reliability of its computing centres, security and data availability
• STRATO is a one hundred per cent subsidiary of freenet.de, a listed Internet and telecommunications company with over ten million customers
• STRATO benefits from the competence of its parent company and utilises existing group synergies to offer its own customers exceptional services: freenet.de is one of the few providers to have its own network and hence a powerful infrastructure for data and speech exchange. This enables freenet.de to offer customers throughout the group optimum tariff plans and the highest level of performance as well as innovative products like the DSL telephony package iPhone