RackForce Adopts New Plesk Enterprise Management Software

February 26, 2003 -- Hosting Service Provider RackForce Hosting Inc. announced today that it has signed a major agreement with Plesk, Inc. to integrate Plesks exciting new product, the Plesk Enterprise Manager (PEM), into its highly reliable data center infrastructure.

February 26, 2003 -- Hosting Service Provider RackForce Hosting Inc. announced today that it has signed a major agreement with Plesk, Inc. to integrate Plesks exciting new product, the Plesk Enterprise Manager (PEM), into its highly reliable data center infrastructure.

RackForce is an organization that has excelled through innovation and is an ideal candidate for the PEM software, said Plesks CEO and Cofounder, Dmitri Simonenko. We seek partnerships with innovative, progressive companies and RackForce Hosting certainly fits the bill. By deploying PEM, RackForce immediately realizes added value for their reseller channel. The softwares ability to manage everything from their switch and router hardware to the deployment of entire corporate hosting infrastructures corresponds with RackForces aggressive forward looking corporate outlook."

Through its sales and marketing tools, 24/7 live support and in-house customized servers, RackForce has seen 300% growth in 2002, 150% in the last quarter alone. The company has had to act quickly to keep up and is adding another data center at the beginning of March 2003. Through a partnership with Plesk and its new PEM product it will be able to maintain this growth rate while expanding the services it provides.

Up until now RackForce has relied heavily on its talented development team to evolve its hosting services, administration and sales systems. I think we are known as a company that provides high quality dedicated servers and support for a great price. Now, with the addition of PEM, we will be giving our customers the ability to provide a privately branded suite of hosting services with unmatched service and support," said Tim Dufour, President & CEO of RackForce Hosting Inc. We looked at them all including SWSofts Virtuozzo/HSPComplete, Ensims ServerXchange and others. No one has the breadth of capabilities out of the box, the ability to meet all of our needs today, or the architecture to support our future needs for customization, expansion, or integration", added Tim. The innovation that Plesk brings to bare with PEM builds on their reputation as the leader in Hosting Automation and now Distributed Hosting."

In addition to its current Reseller customer base, RackForce will be teaming up with web hosting and design companies that are looking to provide state-of-the-art hosting and support while simplifying all aspects of the process. Kelly Beardmore, RackForces Operations Manager enthusiastically stated, Under this new model a reseller could add a firewall, a shopping cart and a separate email server to their customers web site with a simple point and click. No RackForce personnel will be required. Even the resellers customer will be able to add services and the billing system will automatically update, bill and pay the reseller. This makes everyones job a whole lot easier, especially mine."

Over the next few months RackForce will make available to its resellers the new PEM service as well as the tools and techniques that have led to RackForces explosive growth. Well be working with our current customer base as well as new resellers that see the potential of this new model. We empower our Reseller customer with the ability to auto-provision servers and services as they see fit for their customers. In addition we offer a completely integrated private-label billing system with 24/7 tech support so the Reseller can offer value added services and support level guarantees to their customers. ," added Brian Fry, RackForces Vice President Sales and Marketing.