PARIS, October 8 /PRNewswire/ --     After 9 months of intensive beta testing using a pool of 9,000
servers created by over 4,000 individual customers, Gandi.net, the largest
ICANN-accredited registrar in France, announces the grand opening of its
unparalleled hosting service.

"We are extremely proud to announce the opening of Gandi's web hosting
service, which has been developed entirely in-house over 2 years, and is
built on a 'cloud infrastructure'. This means that your server runs on a grid
of computers, guaranteeing your resources, while giving unparalleled
resilience to failure, and the ability to expand or contract your resources
as your needs change. The hosting industry is well aware that this is the
next evolutionary step in technology and will replace shared hosting, and
possibly even dedicated hosting. The advantages for customers are too great
to be ignored, which is why the traditional players, having down played this,
are now using buzzwords around virtualisation in order to continue to sell to
the less informed." says Joe White, COO of Gandi.net.

"We have developed this technology in house with the support
of our active community of beta testers. Their support has allowed us to stay
in close contact with our customers during development and means that we can
be very agile in response to their changing needs in the future. We would
like to thank them for helping us deliver this revolutionary service."

The Gandi service is unparalleled because of its extreme
flexibility. Imagine you are launching your new website, you are excited
about your future growth, but you have no idea how successful your site will
be. Gandi's hosting service makes this an easy problem to deal with:

Ultimate flexibility exclusively at Gandi - Your dedicated
server can be up and running in 10 minutes, you can increase or reduce the
power of your server instantly with no loss of service. This means you can
tailor the service to your actual needs and evolve your server in line with
your success. There is no minimum term to your contract.

An offer available to everyone - Experienced users can create their own
dedicated server and configure it however they wish, while beginners can take
advantage of Gandi AI (Auto-install) to setup preinstalled servers that are
ready to use in one-click (web-servers, mail-servers, game servers).

"Made in Gandi": service first - Gandi is well known as a company that
listens to its customer's needs, has a desire to keep innovating, and for the
quality of its products and services. Because we develop our products in
house we can be highly responsive to your feedback.

High network resilience - Gandi's infrastructure is based on high
availability servers using SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) disks running RAID 60.
Additionally, we have two separate locations on the same network loop that
allows us to "move" a server from one location to another seamlessly without
the slightest disruption in service.

A price that is more than competitive - To celebrate the launch, Gandi
prices will start at GBP7/$14/EUR10 (excl. VAT) per 'share' per month (one
'share' being the smallest resource per server, the most powerful server may
have up to 16 shares). This will last until December 31st 2008, and will then
move to the standard price of GBP8.5/$16/EUR12 (excl. VAT).

"This is the beginning of a new chapter in Gandi's history", says Stephan
Ramoin, CEO, "We have long been recognised as the registrar of choice for the
tech community, and our revolutionary new hosting offer delivers the same
level of quality, innovation, flexibility and price that our customers
expect. And for those who don't need the power of a full server, Gandi will
soon launch additional hosting services, at a far lower price. Watch this
space."

About Gandi.net:

Created in 1999 and purchased in 2005 by an experienced
executive team, Gandi manages more than 760,000 domain names for clients in
198 countries around the world, which places the company as a leading domain
names registrar in France and sixth in Europe. Today, Gandi is a leader in
the field of domain name registrars, always putting the customers needs
first, with a commitment to high quality, innovative products. The company's
goal is to create an alternative and independent line of Internet services
based around domain names. Gandi is devoted to giving everyone the tools they
need to discuss their interests, present products or services, or to simply
express themselves. In short, we enable people to lay claim to a personal
online presence of professional quality. Our clients range from individuals
and small companies, to public institutions (EU/ECB) and large multinational
corporations. Many have put confidence in us, and it's something we are
deeply proud of.

More information on Gandi is available at: http://www.gandi.net/press



Email: wendy@gandi.net