Hosted Solutions Completes SAS 70 Type II Audit

Each of the company's three data centers earn SAS 70 compliance

Raleigh, NC - July 27, 2006 - Hosted Solutions, the Carolinas' leading data center and Web hosting company, today announced that it has completed a SAS 70 Type II Audit. Each of the company's three data centers in Raleigh, Cary and Charlotte have earned SAS 70 compliance.

It is a great achievement and testament to our dedication to providing only the highest standards of service to our customers that Hosted Solutions has concluded our SAS 70, says Rich Lee, CEO of Hosted Solutions. SAS 70 has become the industry standard for data center controls and compliance and we are thrilled to have completed the process all the way through a Type II report.

Statement on Auditing Standards (SAS) No.70 is an auditing standard developed by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). A SAS 70 audit validates that a service organization has completed an in-depth audit of their control activities, which include controls over information technology processes. A Type I report describes the service organization's description of controls at a specific point in time. A Type II report not only includes a description of controls, but also includes detailed testing of those controls over a minimum six month period.

SAS 70 was created in 1998, but received wide spread adoption after the Sarbanes-Oxley act of 2002. Developed as a direct response to the corporate scandals of 2001-2002, Sarbanes-Oxley requires dramatic increases in institutional control from publicly traded companies.
Hosted Solutions will be in a very select group of data center providers nationally that have certified all of their facilities with both a SAS 70 Type I and Type II audit. For more information, or to receive a copy of Hosted Solutions' SAS 70 report, please call 919.852.0690 (Raleigh), or 704.423.9174 (Charlotte).

About Hosted Solutions

Hosted Solutions provides customized managed and dedicated web hosting solutions to more than 375 clients from its SAS 70 Type II compliant data centers. 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 Solution's offerings contact sales@hostedsolutions.com, call 919-852-0690 in the Triangle, 704-423-9174 in Charlotte, or visit www.hostedsolutions.com.