WebsitesForHeroes.com Chooses Rackspace^® Hosting for Reliable Communication among U.S. Troops and Families

Fanatical Support Helps Ensure 24/7 Availability of Family Websites

SAN ANTONIO – June 2, 2008

Rackspace^® Hosting, a leading hosting services provider, today announced an agreement to provide hosting services to Caliber Media Group’s WebsitesForHeroes.com, an organization founded by Caliber’s CEO Terry Gniffke and The Family Post’s CEO Mike Sawtell to provide safe interactive websites for deployed military heroes to stay connected with their families.

Under the agreement, Rackspace^® is providing a Linux-based web environment on which military men and women create and host personal websites to communicate with their families during deployment. Serving more than 1,000 Soldiers, Airmen, Seamen and Marines, and their families since November 2006, WebsitesForHeroes.com websites include several interactive features such as blogs, photo and video galleries, message boards, calendars and more.

"Our vision for WebsitesForHeroes.com is to provide secure interactive websites to every military family while encouraging widespread support of America’s troops," said Vietnam veteran Terry Gniffke, co-founder, WebsitesForHeroes.com. "If our hosted environment goes down, that affects the many servicemen and women that depend on our organization for comfort and communication with their families. Rackspace^® has provided us with the technical expertise and reliable infrastructure that can grow with our organization."

WebsitesForHeroes.com moved from a colocation facility to Rackspace^® and has since realized the benefits of Rackspace^®’s 24/7 Fanatical Support^® which provides the non-profit organization a dedicated team of Linux technicians and systems administrators. Rackspace^® also provides WebsitesForHeroes.com with enterprise-class servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux with performance-enhancing gear to accommodate traffic spikes as more servicemen and women learn about the program.

“WebsitesForHeroes.com expressed interest in cost savings to ensure that sponsorship funds for the soldiers were going toward the cost of the family websites rather than overhead IT costs,” said Frederick Mendler, vice president of Fanatical Support, Rackspace^® Hosting. “Rackspace^® has been able to step in and provide the technical support, hardware and data center needs at a fraction of the total cost of their colocation hosting strategy. The money saved can be used towards adding more websites for the troops, which provides more service members near-instant communication with their loved ones.”

WebsitesForHeroes.com gives corporations and the American public the opportunity to sponsor a website for a family. For more information on how to contribute, please visit www.websitesforheroes.org.

One WebsitesForHeroes.com subscriber and wife of a deployed hero said, "This really touches us as a family at home. We didn’t have to spend two weeks reacquainting him with everything that had happened. He felt like he had been there in some small way. We could just spend our time relaxing and enjoying each other’s company.”

About WebsitesForHeroes.com

Websitesforheroes.com is brought to you by two 'Patriotic Americans' committed to keeping military families together. Mike, an entrepreneur of advanced family website technology and Terry, a former Marine and Vietnam veteran, are on a mission to provide the American public the opportunity to sponsor patriotic, password protected, interactive websites for all the brave men and women of our armed forces as well as their families.

About Rackspace^® Hosting

Rackspace^® Hosting delivers hosted IT systems and computing to businesses of all sizes. Customers choose Rackspace^® for its hosting specialization and expertise, backed by the company’s award-winning Fanatical Support^®. Customers can receive benefits such as higher quality, lower cost and better performance from Rackspace^®’s vast knowledge of industry best-practices. Because Rackspace^® removes the burden of IT systems maintenance and management, customers can focus on key areas that differentiate their business. Rackspace^®'s portfolio of hosted services includes managed hosting (www.rackspace.com), email hosting (www.mailtrust.com) and cloud hosting (www.mosso.com). Rackspace^® is recognized as one of FORTUNE Magazine’s 100 Best companies to work for, ranking number 32 on the 2008 list. For more information on Rackspace^® Hosting please visit www.rackspace.com or call 800-961-2888.