STRATO INTRODUCES BLOGGING TOOL TO WEB USERS

STRATO, one of Europe’s leading web hosters today introduces its new blogging products, STRATO ProBlog and STRATO EasyBlog, both available free as part of STRATO’s web hosting packages with no additional software installation needed.

EasyBlog (part of STRATO EasyWeb) and ProBlog (part of STRATO PowerWeb, AdvancedWeb and EnterpriseWeb) allow STRATO customers to choose their own individual domain name and customise their blog with up to 500 design themes available.

Recent research shows that one in five 26 to 30 year olds in the UK have created a personal website, with a fifth of these frequently blogging. With blogging sites increasing across UK and the rest of Europe, STRATO decided to help its customers with this new phenomena by enabling a fully featured blogging capability to be included as part of its EasyWeb (£3.49/month), PowerWeb (£6.99/month), AdvancedWeb (£10.99/month) and EnterpriseWeb (£14.99/month) web hosting packages.

Damian Schmidt, CEO of STRATO, said: “Across Europe, we have seen the trend for blogs steadily increase, with many more sites appearing every day. This trend has particularly taken off in the UK, where blogs are being used for everything from a CEO reaching out to employees via a corporate website, through to the UK’s number one song in the pop charts being driven by a blog. At STRATO, we have recognised the clear demand for easy, simple blogging and so decided to enable users to set up their own blogs for free through our existing packages.”

Additional features of STRATO ProBlog and STRATO EasyBlog include:

• Depending on the STRATO web hosting package chosen, users can receive up to 20GB of web space
• No banner ads disrupting the blog site
• Unlimited WordPress features
• Unlimited number of authors per blog
• Unlimited number of comments
• Anti-spam capability
• Direct access to SQL database
• Extended functionality via PHP. ProBlog users have access to the PHP code in order to make direct changes
• Trackbacks available

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