Host Europe and Red Hat:
Premium Hosting for Companies

Host Europe GmbH, one of Germany’s leading internet hosting providers, has acquired an outstanding position on the market due to its high-quality and reliable products and to its first class support. The award “Red Hat Premier Hosting Partner“ impressively highlights this positioning.

The provider concentrates primarily on internet professionals and business customers, providing numerous services ranging from single Dedicated Servers to individual Managed Hosting Solutions which guarantee interruption-free operation of websites and web based applications.

To operate such systems, mostly “mission critical systems“, the company has to provide a reliable and seamless interaction of the following factors:

• Redundancy of infrastructural components such as Data Centre and Backbone
• Application of reliable and easily administrable hardware
• Application of secure and flexible operating systems
• Skilled on-site personnel in order to guarantee quick operation and reaction

“Operating systems play a decisive role in the application of mission critical systems as security and stability, easily manageable administration and flexibility are of extreme importance especially in this field. Judging from these aspects, Red Hat products are unbeatable in terms of price-performance ratio”, says Uwe Braun, Managing Director of Host Europe GmbH.

For its Dedicated Servers and Managed Hosting Solutions, among Red Hat Enterprise Systems Host Europe also applies the Red Hat Cluster Suite as well as the Red Hat Global File System. On-site personnel that has been certified by Red Hat administrates the systems and is able to intervene quickly and competently in case of problems.

“We have been working together intensively with Red Hat for a long time now. We are certainly pleased about the award as Premier Hosting Partner. This award entails considerable advantages from which each customer benefits directly”, adds Uwe Braun.

That way the status as Premier Hosting Partner guarantees access to important product and training resources and support by selected contact persons at Red Hat.
Thus the provider is able to convince his customers with outstanding products and excellent support and at the same time expand the position on the market as provider of high quality.

Host Europe’s Managed Hosting Solutions are operated in a highly modern and certificated data centre infrastructure. Our carrier-neutral and redundant backbone safeguards a high-performance internet connectivity at a high net quality.

Among others, our facilities comprise:

• High Availability Cluster Solutions with connection to Storage, Loadbalancer and Managed Switches
• Firewall, Backup, Monitoring Solutions
• Individual Systems Management Services and Service Level Agreements

Realization according to the actual requirements:
Due to an individual advising and support service by our long-time members of staff a customized solution suitable in everyday life will be designed specifically for our customers’ requirements.

• Reduction of costs:
  Being a specialised service provider, Host Europe is able to significantly reduce acquisition and operating costs in comparison with an in house solution
• Saving of time:
  Due to Host Europe taking on the responsibility for an interruption-free operation of the customers' systems, the customers' own personnel can be involved increasingly in the core business again.

Since 1997, Host Europe develops and markets premium, reliable and innovative Internet services for private and business clients in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Just recently, Host Europe has won the German Internet Industry Award of the association of German Internet Economy e.c.o. e.V (Verband der deutschen Internetwirtschaft e.c.o. e.V.) in the category "Best Internet Hoster 2005".

Due to the application of highly fail-proof infrastructure, partnerships with competent technology companies, extensive business activities of scalable and high-class Internet services and a customer-oriented support, Host Europe is characterised as one of the leading Internet service providers and is therefore rewarded by our customers and employees with long time loyalty. These facts are good reason for already more than 25 % of the companies quoted on the DAX to obtain services from Host Europe.

Host Europe is a subsidiary of the public limited company PIPEX Communications plc which is quoted on the New Market of England (AIM). PIPEX is one of the leading Internet service and broadband providers in England.
Today, the Pipex group attends more than 1.000.000 customers (thereof 600.000 DSL customers in England) and hosts more than 1.500.000 domains as well as more than 10.000 dedicated/co-located servers in nine own carrier neutral data centres in Germany and England.

For further information about the company and its products please visit: http://www.hosteurope.de