STRATO’s PowerWeb

LONDON, 10/05/06

To celebrate its recent entry into the UK market, STRATO as one of Europe’s leading web-hosting companies, is launching a new product tailored to the needs of the UK’s SOHO business users and advanced private users. STRATO PowerWeb, priced at £6.99 (+VAT) per month has been specially designed to provide for a SOHO user’s every digital need. STRATO is also offering UK SOHO users the chance to win their own dedicated .eu domain name as part of a giveaway of 100,000 .eu domains.

Damian Schmidt, CEO of STRATO said: "As part of our commitment to the UK, we have listened to the needs of the UK’s small businesses and are delighted to deliver a complete package which provides great performance at an unbeatable price. PowerWeb represents our best value webhosting and comes with free additional branded professional software to get users started. It is backed by our 24/7customer service and free customer helpline. Small businesses can really benefit from the numerous email accounts included in the PowerWeb package – enabling each employee to be set up with their own personal email account from any location. We believe we currently offer the UK’s best webhosting service".

PowerWeb provides everything a SOHO business needs to simply set up a professional internet presence. Also ideal for ambitious personal users keen to have their own individual professional and reliable internet presence, PowerWeb offers 3GB of webspace and 3 domains from a choice of .eu, .com, .net, .org, .info or.biz. 1,000 email accounts of 1GB per account are also included along with Anti-Spam and Anti-Virus protection and a website building tool. PowerWeb also provides a unique data security feature – all customer website data is automatically saved with STRATO BackupControl. This enables users to access up to ten backup copies of the website data which can be respectively hours, days or weeks old.

As one of the leading web-hosting providers in Europe, STRATO offers extremely high quality products at unbeatable low prices to its UK customers. The company offers excellent levels of service and more than 200 of its 400 employees are dedicated to customer support.

Notes to Editors

• STRATO is one of Europe’s leading web hosts and in June 2006 was recognized 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 two million domains and one million customer contracts. STRATO operations currently exist across Europe, including Germany, UK, Italy, Spain, France and the Netherlands
• 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
• Partners of STRATO are e.g. Sun Microsystems, Cisco, AMD, Adobe and Microsoft
• Besides complete domain packages and DSL broadband access, STRATO markets high-quality servers and solutions in the area of e-commerce
• 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

Information about STRATO can be found on the STRATO website at www.strato.eu / www.strato.com

For more information please contact:

Sneha Nagmoti/Richard Warner
T: 0207 388 9988
E: nagmoti@spreckley.co.uk