Hosted Solutions Adds First Charter to Client LIst fo Hosting Services

Contact:
Daniel Pearson
919 Marketing
919.271.1694
dpearson@919marketing.com

Charlotte, N.C. - May 23, 2005 - Hosted Solutions, the Carolinas' premier data center and hosted infrastructure company, announced today the addition of the First Charter website, www.firstcharter.com, to their high profile national client list. This follows on the heels of the company recently being recognized as one of the American City Business Journal's “Fast Fifty” companies.

Headquartered in Charlotte, First Charter is a full-service community bank. The company provides a broad range of financial products and services to individuals and businesses: banking, investments, insurance, mortgages, financial planning, asset management and a full array of employee benefit programs.

First Charter's enhanced Internet presence and portfolio of web based customer services was the catalyst behind the decision to align with a web hosting provider that could offer a fully provided and managed solution.

“First Charter is a well-respected brand throughout the Charlotte region, and we are proud to add them to our growing list of Charlotte based clients,” Gary McAuliffe, general manager of the Hosted Solutions' Charlotte facility says. “We're pleased First Charter recognized our Web hosting capabilities as well as the Internet infrastructure and high level of managed services we provide for web based applications.”

Hosted Solutions' full suite of services includes Colocation, Fully-Managed Servers, Dedicated Servers, Business Continuity Services, Managed Storage, Enterprise Backup, Managed Firewall, Intrusion Detection, and Vulnerability Detection, Load Balancing, High Availability Clustering, and comprehensive 24/7 Monitoring and Management of e-commerce infrastructures.

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Hosted Solutions provides complete and customized managed and dedicated web hosting solutions to more than 275 clients. Hosted Solutions offers unmatched technical expertise in best practices and best-of-breed technologies as well as flexible and scalable packages and a la carte services. For more information about Hosted Solutions' offerings contact sales@hostedsolutions.com, call 919-852-0690 in the Triangle, 704-423-9174 in Charlotte, or visit www.hostedsolutions.com