Hosted Solutions Announces Seventeen New Additions to Sales and Technical Teams; Multiple Promotions

Raleigh, North Carolina – May 5, 2006 – Hosted Solutions, the Carolinas’ premier data center and managed hosting company, announced today nearly twenty new hires and promotions in response to the company’s consistent, sustainable increases in sales and growth.

Promotions include Brian Baker to the position of Vice President of Sales, Don Clow to the position of Chief Operating Officer, Gary McAuliffe to the position of Vice President of Business Development and Heather Weksler to the position of Sales and Marketing Assistant.

Joining the Hosted Solutions sales team are Danny Hunt, Senior Account Executive; Samantha Rode, Account Executive; and Josh Wolff, Senior Account Executive. Joining the Hosted Solutions technical team in various positions are Jason Bieber, Alan Clegg, Raymon Edwards, Harvey Hall, Paula Heubusch, Cory Horne, Matt Nelson, Chris Powers, Pat Richardson, Matt Santori, Rich Shappard, Art Smith, Jeff Thornberg and Steve Williams.

“Hosted Solutions has shown remarkable growth since the very beginning,” commented Hosted Solutions CEO Rich Lee. “A great contributor to that growth has been our ability to attract top talent with the drive and skills to produce superior results for our clients. As CEO and founder, I couldn’t be more pleased to announce these well-deserved promotions and promising new hires.”

Hosted Solutions’ full suite of services includes Colocation, Fully-Managed Servers, Dedicated Servers, Business Continuity Services, Managed Storage, Enterprise Backup, Managed Firewall, Intrusion and Vulnerability Detection, Load Balancing, High Availability Clustering and comprehensive 24/7 Monitoring and Management of e-commerce infrastructures.

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About Hosted Solutions
Hosted Solutions provides complete and customized managed and dedicated web hosting solutions to more than 350 clients. 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.