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Primary Network, a leading provider of Internet access solutions, announced today that it has completed a comprehensive redesign of its corporate website, featuring a sophisticated, yet easy-to-navigate layout as well as customer-specific product sections that intuitively take visitors to information about its diverse connectivity products, from high speed DSL services to nationwide T-1’s.

Saint Louis, MO (August 19, 2011) - Primary Network, a leading provider of Internet access solutions, announced today that it has completed a comprehensive redesign of its corporate website, featuring a sophisticated, yet easy-to-navigate layout as well as customer-specific product sections that intuitively take visitors to information about its diverse connectivity products, from high speed DSL services to nationwide T-1’s.

The redesigned site reflects Primary Network’s commitment to excellence, providing visitors with greater value for their connectivity experience. The new site features Primary Network’s Forever Support. It also features LiveChat, which is set up for Pre and Post Sales Level 1 and Level 2 Support.

“We were one of the first Internet Service Providers in the industry to consistently provide business class solutions and best practices to everyone who visits our website,” explained Ken Cox, Vice President of Operations. “As a pioneer in the ISP industry, we’ve always felt that it’s our responsibility to provide content that helps visitors make informed decisions.”

Major improvements to the Primary Network site now include more relevant, meaningful content to different connectivity sectors. Information is grouped by market segment and solutions where visitors can get the information they need quickly.

About Primary Network
Founded in 1995, Primary Network provides nationwide and regional Internet connectivity solutions from its geographically centered St. Louis data centers. Leveraging an advanced routing technology with fiber connectivity to multiple carriers, Primary Network empowers businesses with multiple enterprise class access solutions, designed for stability, security and scalability.

In addition to offering T-1 dedicated Internet access services in thousands of communities throughout the U.S., Primary Network also offers a “Next Generation” Metro Ethernet Service, Remote Network Monitoring Service and High-Speed DSL Internet Service. We make this commitment to each and every customer – to provide around-the-clock knowledgeable support, when you need it and how you want it.

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Contact Information

River City Internet Group
Ken Cox
(800) 615-9349
ken.cox@rcig.net
http://www.rcig.net

St. Louis, MO, February 18, 2011 –(PR.com)– Hostirian, L.L.C., a leading provider of business-class shared, VPS, dedicated servers, collocation and cloud-based blogging platforms, today launched a new line of Cloud Packages (powered by Citrix XenServer), offering cloud-based services for those customers with requirements that extend beyond a normal hosting environment.

Citing a growing trend toward cloud hosting, Hostirian has begun offering five new cloud services, which are supported by multiple state-of-the-art servers. Each server/node features 74GB of high speed RAM and Dual Intel X5650 Hexacore processors on an N+1 architecture. All of the packages are hosted on 15,000 RPM SCSI drives in a RAID10 configuration, giving our customers outstanding disk performance while maintaining a high level of redundancy. Those servers are backed by a multi-homed 10Gbps Cisco network. Plus, high availability (HA)/Self Healing technology is standard on all of their Cloud Services.

High availability (HA) eliminates the need for dedicated standby hardware and software in a virtualized environment. Self healing has the ability to perceive that it is not operating correctly and, without human intervention, make the necessary adjustments to restore itself to normal operation. This means that cost is minimized for our clients, while speed and redundancy is maximized.

“We recognized the need for a cost-effective 100% uptime solution for cloud services, to address our customers’ growing requirements,” said Ken Cox, Vice President of Operations. “This new line of cloud packages offers them the best range of cloud services available industry-wide. Our customers can feel comfortable that their data is safe and their website will be online 100% of the time.”

The new cloud packages are the Standard, Business, Advanced, Extreme and Elite, ranging from $175/month to $1249/month.

About Hostirian:

Hostirian, a division of River City Internet Group (www.rcig.net) was founded to meet the needs of regional businesses seeking a local web hosting partner capable of providing state-of-the-art and cost-effective hosting facilities, superb customer service and assistance in marketing and managing their business’s web presence. Hostirian offers shared and managed web hosting services to businesses operating mission critical, multi-functional websites. In addition, Hostirian offers web hosting services to a rapidly growing number of application service providers, enabling them to more efficiently deliver application services to their customers over the Internet. Hostirian also offers value-added services, such as firewall management, stress testing and consulting services, including capacity and migration planning. Our services give the customer the option to use their own hardware and software or we can provide the hardware, software, network technology and systems management necessary. Hostirian’s core focus is to offer our customers comprehensive outsourced website and application hosting solutions.

Learn more about Hostirian’s web hosting solutions at www.hostirian.com or call us at (800) 615-9349.

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Press Release

Corporate Cost Control Chooses St. Louis-based Hostirian for datacenter hosting

St. Louis, MO (Stl Press Releases) March 4, 2009

Unemployment cost management company Corporate Cost Control, based in Dallas, TX, recently selected Hostirian, in St. Louis, Missouri, to provide IT hosting services. Hostirian will provide network, data storage, and business continuity services for Corporate Cost Control’s offices throughout the United States.

 ”Data security and network reliability are extremely important for Corporate Cost Control and our clients,” stated Dan Tienes, Corporate Cost Control’s Chief Technology Officer. “With Hostirian’s expertise in this area, we can be confident our data is secure and our systems always available. Hostirian frees us to focus on providing top-flight service – which is what really matters to our customers.”

Corporate Cost Control’s clients will benefit from Hostirian’s 24 x 7 x 365 network and hardware monitoring, strict facility access restrictions, redundant environmental controls, and guarantee of service uptime (thanks, in part, to a diesel generator to provide power in the event of an area-wide power outage). Hostirian also operates a second facility in which the Corporate Cost Control system can be restored to full service in the event of a disaster.

“One of our strengths is our ability to offer customers the assurance that their data is as safe as it can possibly be,” stated Ken Cox, Hostirian’s Vice President of Operations. “Far from just providing storage space for servers, Hostirian offers a consultative approach that helps insure each client has the most secure and most stable IT environment in place. And our capacity lets us grow along with those customers.”

Corporate Cost Control’s migration to the new facility will be completed on March 10, 2009.

About Corporate Cost Control

Corporate Cost Control (http://www.corporatecostcontrol2.com) opened for business in 1993 and has been operating as a nationwide consulting firm that specializes in assisting all types of businesses with Unemployment Cost Management. Corporate Cost Control’s promise is to provide a level of Unemployment Cost Management service so singular and unparalleled in its industry, that EACH of their Customers will believe they have been treated as if they were their ONLY Client.                           

Contact:

Jay Rooney       jrooney@corporatecostcontrol.com
Tim Rooney      trooney@corporatecostcontrol.com
Clay Weidman   cweidman@corporatecostcontrol.com

About Hostirian

Hostirian (http://www.hostirian.com ) is a wholly owned business unit of River City Internet Group (http://www.rcig.net), providing premium hosting, complex hosting , managed services and colocation services through its’ multiple carrier class facilities, multiple data center locations, each supported by online tools and personalized attention to client’s needs. Servers and applications are monitored by an onsite 24×7×365 NOC staffed by trained engineers. Clients include Web 2.0 search engine Ice Rocket, Interstate Bakeries, IntraISP, and CDM Sports.

Contact:

Ken Cox
Ken.Cox@rcig.net

GameRail Launches at QuakeCon 2007
High-Performance Network for Online Games Gives Subscribers the Edge

ST. LOUIS & DALLAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–At today’s opening of QuakeCon 2007, GameRail announced the official launch of its private high-performance network exclusively for online games, providing gamers an extraordinary advantage through substantially lower latency.

GameRail is the first and only high-performance low-latency private network in North America dedicated to the online PC gaming community. GameRail’s revolutionary bypass network was designed to meet the speed and quality needs of online gamers and delivers a “direct-connect” from the player to the game host, avoiding the congestion and inefficient routing paths of the traditional Internet. Lower pings and fewer hops mean more frags and a better overall online gaming experience. A reasonably priced subscription-based service, GameRail is installed as an easy-to-use, full-featured desktop client that includes a rich integrated game browser.

“The newest release of the GameRail client provides our subscribers with an unbelievable visualization tool that confirms GameRail’s performance while giving them a simple one-stop experience for finding and joining games,” said GameRail’s CEO, Mark Senda. “We’re thrilled to be launching GameRail at QuakeCon, one of the largest player-oriented conventions. Here we can truly show players first hand just how much GameRail can have a positive impact on their gaming experience.”

Online multiplayer computer gaming is one of the fastest growing entertainment activities in the U.S., with over 40 million people now playing regularly. GameRail is connecting over 34 million homes in the continental US, Alaska and Canada through partnerships with the top national and regional providers of DSL and cable broadband.

For more information about GameRail and to sign up for the free 30-day trial please visit the official website at www.gamerail.com.

About Gamerail

Progression LLC, a Missouri LLC, dba GameRail, (www.gamerail.com) is a facilities-based Content Delivery Network Operator that is dedicated to delivering superior performance to the online gaming community. GameRail directly connects game players with broadband to their favorite game hosts and vice versa, thereby eliminating game play degrading high latency hops on the Internet. GameRail has interconnection facilities in eight major US markets including Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Seattle and St. Louis.

By Jerri Stroud
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
04/05/2007

Eben Shantz is an IT guy and uses Electric Internet, a joint venture between River City Internet and Ameren Energy Communications. (Kevin Manning/P-D)

When Eben Shantz gets tired of working in his downtown loft, he can take his computer to the rooftop lounge or anywhere else in the Ventana, a building that offers Internet access from any electric outlet.

The Ventana, 1635 Washington Avenue, is the first building in the St. Louis area with commercial “broadband over power line” service from Electric Internet, a joint venture between an Ameren Corp. subsidiary and River City Internet Group LLC of Maryland Heights.

“It’s really easy,” said Shantz, 26, a computer programmer who works for a California company from his loft. “You don’t have to set up anything weird.”

Shantz and other residents plug modems into an electric outlet, plug their computers into the modem’s Ethernet port, turn it on and start their browser software. The always-on connection uploads and downloads files at six megabits per second.

At the Ventana, the service costs about $13 a month, which is included in condo association fees. Tenants can order higher-speed connections from Electric Internet: 10-megabit service for $29 a month or 100-megabit service for $99 a month.

Electric Internet uses the electrical wiring within buildings to deliver Internet access to electrical outlets, building systems or hard-wired devices like security cameras. River City delivers Internet access to the building using telecommunications networks, not the power grid, and the Internet signal is then transmitted through the building’s electrical wiring.

“It has the most flexibilty,” said John Monshausen, vice president of Jacob Development Group, which owns the Ventana. “The tenants are extraordinarily happy.”

Electric Internet is putting the system into an assisted living facility in south St. Louis County, an apartment building in the Central West End and two Jacob Development Group projects besides the Ventana, said Trey Goede, executive vice president of River City.

Goede said Electric Internet can save a building owner money because it doesn’t require separate cables for Internet access. Developers don’t have to guess where tenants will want to use the service, either. Instead of putting in three or four Internet jacks per unit, they know that tenants can plug in at any outlet.

Ameren Energy Communications, an unregulated subsidiary of the power company, provides equipment for connecting the Internet to a building’s power system. River City acts as an Internet service provider, handling customer service and billing for the business.

The companies market the service jointly in the St. Louis area, said Cindy Bambini, project manager for Ameren Energy Communications. The utility may seek other partners elsewhere in its service area.

Electric Internet is marketing the service primarily to multi-tenant buildings, hospitals, office buildings and other commercial buildings. In most cases, the company is selling to developers of new buildings or those undergoing major renovation, Goede said.

Ameren has been testing Internet service delivered from its power poles to customers in Cape Girardeau for nearly five years, but it isn’t planning to expand beyond that test, Bambini said. Several regulatory and technology issues need to be overcome before Ameren could start selling Internet access over its power grid, she said.

jerristroud@post-dispatch.com | 314-340-8384

Missouri and Southern Illinois based Charter High Speed Internet customers now have direct access to the GameRail network allowing them to bypass the Internet for a superior online gaming experience.

St. Louis, MO (Stl Press Releases) January 26, 2007 – Progression LLC, dba GameRail ( http://www.GameRail.com ), today announced that it has completed a direct connection to the Charter High Speed Internet service network. The new connection bypasses the Internet and allows Charter High Speed Internet subscribers in Missouri, St. Louis, and St. Louis Metro East to decrease ping times to online game servers throughout the country by 25% – 75%. GameRail’s nationwide network directly connects gamers to game servers. Online gamers with broadband Internet service from Charter now have the shortest and fastest path to performance game servers offering popular titles like America’s Army: Special Forces, Battlefield 2 Ranked and Unranked, Call of Duty, Counter Strike Source, Enemy Territory Fortress, Half Life: Condition Zero, Half Life/ Counter-Strike, Halo: Combat Evolved, Quake 4, Teamfortress Classic, Tribes Vengeance, Unreal Tournament 2004, Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, as well as dedicated servers and TeamSpeak slot rental.

“The GameRail network is further expanded with Charter Communications Midwestern footprint. Our network’s reach today covers most major peering points with partners servicing broadband subscribers from as far as Fairbanks, Alaska and as near as Chesterfield, Missouri. Access providers and game server hosts continue to jump on the rail in order to offer their customers the best online gaming experience possible” said Blake Ashby, GameRails President. “Charter customers can see for themselves the improved performance by riding GameRail. They simply register at www.gamerail.com” Ashby furthered.

Online multiplayer computer gaming is one of the fastest growing entertainment activities in the U.S., with over 40 million people now playing regularly. GameRail recently introduced the first network designed to meet the speed and quality needs of online gaming. GameRail’s bypass network delivers a “direct-connect” from the game player to the game host and avoids the congestion and inefficient routing paths of the regular Internet. Once GameRail and the subscriber’s provider of Internet access are interconnected, the subscriber’s game play packets bypass the multi-hop, high latency Internet and hot route on a dedicated, national broadband network connected to the game host.

About Gamerail:

Progression LLC, a Missouri LLC dba GameRail, (www.gamerail.com) is a facilities-based network operator that is dedicated to delivering superior performance to the online gaming community. GameRail directly connects game players to their favorite game hosts and vice versa, thereby eliminating game play degrading high latency hops on the Internet. GameRail has interconnection facilities in 7 major US markets including Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, Seattle and St. Louis.

Contact:
John Alden
john.alden@gamerail.com