August 26th, 2009

RANKER.COM SELECTS NewServers™' ON-DEMAND CLOUD SERVER PLATFORM

NewServers™' Cloud Computing Solution Delivers Scalability and User Experience Reliability
For Social Media Site

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., August 26, 2009 – NewServers™, the only server cloud that delivers dedicated servers instead of virtual instances on shared servers, today announced that the newly launched Ranker.com data-sharing search and social media site has chosen NewServers™ to support its network of multiple high-capacity web, database, search and image servers.

Integrating Web 2.0 social capabilities with Web 3.0 data capabilities, the Ranker.com search engine leverages huge amounts of data and is required to scale quickly to accommodate a large and uncertain number of anticipated users since the site lends itself to discussion of topical, relevant news events.

"The main NewServers™ benefit is on-demand deployment of dedicated server hardware.  We will not deploy excessive capacity to handle traffic spikes, we will handle them as they come with the on-demand deployment server architecture.  We built prototypes on other server clouds and were unable to guarantee the quality of customer experience with virtual server clouds," said Tchavdar Ivanov, CTO/VP of Engineering, Ranker.com.

Unique from other cloud providers, NewServers™ empowers Ranker.com with its own dedicated server hardware, dedicated VLAN, and the ability to customize the server specifications beyond the defaults.  Most importantly, NewServers™ allows Ranker.com to scale horizontally - capacity overloads are accommodated in minutes through NewServers™' self-service model.

"With its vast amount of information and unpredictable network utilization, Ranker.com is an example of the growing number of next-generation destination sites that require reliable, high performance servers to support its user community," said JP Gagne, CEO, NewServers™.

About Ranker.com
Ranker.com is a social web application that leverages the social aspects of Web 2.0 with emerging Web 3.0 data capabilities. Ranker uses lists, and user rankings, as the backbone of a community enabled to socialize and exchange ideas by creating and sharing lists from precompiled data based on their own personal preferences. The Ranker application is fully distributable and other sites can embed lists made on Ranker with just one click.  

About NewServers™ Inc.
NewServers™ operates a cloud of “Bare Metal” devices called cloud servers that uniquely feature dedicated, not shared, servers. The Hardware as a Service (HaaS) approach allows organizations to maintain scalable, affordable, secure data centers that are hosted at NewServers™' state of the art data center.   More than 290 companies currently use NewServers™ for voice over IP communications, gaming, web applications, graphics rendering and high-performance computing deployments. Privately-held NewServers™ is based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and more information can be found online at www.newservers.com.

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