June 8, 2006

Avantex Hosting, a global leader in the field of professional Web hosting services for businesses, government, non-profit organizations and individuals is proud to announce that it is replacing all its Linux servers with new ones, beginning June 8, 2006.

From its foundation in 1994, Avantex Hosting has been providing the most dependable and reliable Web hosting and email hosting services to all its customers located in more than 62 countries. By replacing all our existing Linux servers with new ones, we are ensuring our clients of the same reliable services they have been accustomed to.

Here is a short list of some of the many features and benefits our new servers will provide for many more years to come:

Reliable Linux Fedora 2.0 operating system

IP Tables included

Plesk graphical user interface 7.5 Reloaded

Plesk now available in French

1 Gig of RAM (random access memory)

Fast dual Xeon Intel processors

SCSI ultra fast hard drives (3 ms)

Dr. Web anti virus software included

Spam Assassin included

Tomcat application server on some plans

Beginning today, June 8, 2006 and up to an including June 21, 2006 all our Linux customers will receive an email from us letting them know that we are in the process of modernizing our servers and our data centers and the few necessary steps they will need to do on their end.

To prevent the loss of any data, Avantex Hosting will save and perform backup copies of all the Web sites of our many customers and will upload the data to our new servers. Customers should still always maintain a backup copy of all their files, including any PHP and MySQL database files.

Please note that these changes will be performed absolutely free of any charges and will only affect Avantex Hosting customers that are hosted on our Linux servers. Any of our customers hosted on our Windows servers will not be affected in any way.

Please contact Avantex Hosting if you have any questions with any of this.

George Baker,
CEO, Avantex Hosting.

About Avantex
Avantex is a leading wholesaler of professional Web hosting services and offers the Linux and Windows operating system to all its customers. All of Avantex servers are strategically located in modern data centers across North America and Europe. Avantex buys Internet bandwidth in very large quantities, hence passing along its savings to its customers. Learn more about Avantex Hosting and rapidly find what you are looking for by viewing our convenient site map.

In addition to offering mission-critical hosting services to Fortune 500 companies and small and medium-size businesses, Avantex offers domain name registration services, data integration and consultation, custom Web design as well as e-commerce application development.

Avantex is fully owned and operated by the General Center for Internet Services Inc., one of Canada’s oldest and largest Internet application developers and integrators, in business since 1996. Visit the Avantex website at www.avantex.org

Source: Avantex