Leading dedicated hosting provider, The Planet, and one of the nation’s top shared Web hosts, Site5, announced a new agreement

April 3, 2007 – The Planet, now the world’s largest privately held dedicated hosting company, and Site5, one of the nation’s largest shared and reseller hosting providers, today announced a new strategic partnership. Through the terms of the agreement, The Planet will serve as the exclusive infrastructure provider for Site5 as it consolidates its hosting platform. Site5 now becomes one of The Planet’s largest customers, with more than 250 servers located in its world-class Houston and Dallas data centers. The integration is scheduled for completion in mid-July. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Founded in 1999 and headquartered in San Ramon, Calif., Site5 provides hosting services to more than 25,000 customers around the world. The company also hosts 188,000 domain names across its broad portfolio of shared and reseller hosting services.

“At Site5, we continue to grow our business based on the service, price performance and exclusive features we provide our customers,” said Site5 Chief Executive Officer Matt Lightner. “Over the past eight years, we have continued to evaluate data center environments, looking for a combination of absolute quality, integrity, uptime, premium servers and one-on-one personalized service expressly tailored to meet our business projections. The Planet was able to meet these specific needs as well as provide prescriptive guidance on the best products for our unique portfolio. It will put us in a great position to further serve our customers’ rigorous demands and continue our aggressive growth strategy.”

“Site5’s endorsement of The Planet as its IT hosting provider illustrates the reliability of our data centers, which we believe is the best guarantee we can provide,” said The Planet’s Chairman and CEO Douglas J. Erwin. “Our goal is to offer customers the perfect combination of products and services, as well as the best infrastructure, so they can focus on flawless business execution and rely on us for their IT operations. We appreciate the trust and confidence of marquis customers like Site5 who rely on The Planet.”

For more information visit www.site5.com or www.theplanet.com.