HUERTH, Germany, January 16 /PRNewswire/ --     The piece of news regarding the sale of Basic Thinking - the most
well-known blog in the German-speaking countries, which has been run by
Robert Basic - had caused quite a stir in the media recently. Speculations
were running wild afterwards about who would acquire the blog in the online
auction and what its future form would be. Now, the mystery is solved:
serverloft, a supplier of professional Root Servers with headquarters near
Cologne, Germany, is the winner of the auction.

Basic Thinking is the most linked weblog on German blog charts. Former
editor Basic has written more than 12,000 articles, and over 100,000 comments
have been left by his visitors. In December 2008, the blog had 185,000 unique
visitors and 254,000 page impressions. Basic Thinking has always been far
more than just a personal log on the internet. It has been an opinion and
information source for a large number of readers. The blog was even called an
Alpha Blog in German media.

Thomas Strohe (29), founder of serverloft, and his colleagues have been
enthusiastic readers of Robert Basic's blog themselves for a long time. Since
they became acquainted with the fact that the blog should be sold, Strohe got
into contact with Robert Basic and had long discussions with him about the
blog's future. "We want to continue with Basic Thinking in the way that
Robert used to run it", says Strohe. "When we heard about the auction, we
considered it a real pity that this versatile blog with focus on web and
technology topics should not be kept alive as before. In order to avoid a
commercial stripping as well as a loss of content quality, we finally decided
to acquire the blog ourselves, and to maintain it for the technical
community."

For a transition period of several months, Robert Basic will be working
together closely with serverloft to secure a smooth transfer of the blog's
maintenance to the new staff of editors. Topics like trends on the net,
blogging, social networks, web start-ups etc. will now remain the blog's main
focus in the future, while keeping up its wide-ranging theme spectrum.
Moreover, the blog's role as one of the best and most famous in
German-speaking countries shall be strengthened.

The people behind serverloft are a young and committed team, and have
been amongst the pioneers in the area of dedicated hosting in Germany for
more than ten years now. Today, serverloft is one of the leading companies in
the hosting business worldwide. All serverloft offers address to professional
users, who manage their server by themselves with full root access.
serverloft customers get brand hardware with all offers, as well as a fast
and stable connection, free support, and replacement of defective hardware
24/7 within four hours. The least-priced Root Server is available at
serverloft for only 79 EUR per month, with monthly payment and without
minimum contract term.

Pressekontakt:
    
    If you have any questions regarding this press release, please contact:
    
    Thomas Strohe, CEO serverloft
    Mobile: +49-173-70-81-919
    E-mail: t.strohe@serverloft.de