Hosting Controller and SmarterTools, Inc. Enter Strategic partnership To Deliver Comprehensive Cost Effective Hosting Solution.

Los Angeles, CA -- March 18, 2004 -- Hosting Controller and SmarterTools, Inc. annouced the signing of a strategic agreement. The agreement covers  Hosting Controller, the world’s leading Windows hosting automation tools, and SmarterTools’s SmarterMail and SmarterStats, the high quality mail and stats software solutions. The products are perfect complements to each other, giving web hosting companies easy and low-cost access to most needed web hosting software components.

Under the terms of the agreement, Hosting Controller users will will be able to obtain a free SmarterMail and SmarterStats product license with each purchase of Hosting Controller. The agreement marks the beginning of a long-term strategic business relationship between the companies to enhance complete hosting automation solution at the very affordable prices.

“Our goal is to provide high quality products for a very reasonable price to the web hosting industry. By integrating our two products, we are working together to realize the full promise of cost effective hosting solution for the web hosting industry.” said Steve Roth, Sales Director of SmarterTools, Inc.

“We are committed to providing our users with a complete out-of-the-box solution for web hosting automation, eliminating the guesswork and frustration of mixing and matching disparate applications,” stated Syed Nauman Hashmi, Hosting Controller CEO. “SmarterTool’s SmarterStats and SmarterMail Suite and Hosting Controller jointly support the entire web hosting workflow, from provisioning to powerful mail and stats services, thus giving the most cost effective solution to the web hosting industry.”

Hosting Controller is the most powerful and flexible multilingual automation software which offers service providers with a reliable, secure and scalable solution to build and manage Windows hosting environments quickly and easily. It has many advanced features and a sophisticated billing system to automate and improve your web hosting tasks.

About Hosting Controller

Founded in 1999, Hosting Controller is a complete hosting automation solution for web hosts and cloud based service providers. It allows them to manage both Windows & Linux servers simultaneously as part of a single cluster. In addition to shared hosts, HC offers a full solution suite for hosted Enterprise Applications creating a shared multi-tenant environment for automatic provisioning of Exchange 2007/2010, BlackBerry, SharePoint, OCS and Dynamics CRM. It also offers a full automation solution for Infrastructure and Virtualization providers offering virtualized partitions on both Windows and Linux based servers through Hyper-V technology for Windows & Xen Hypervisor technology for Linux! Hosting Controller Inc. is based in Richmond, BC, Canada and has customers in 125 countries worldwide.

For more information about Hosting Controller Inc. visit http://hostingcontroller.com or call +1 (604) 227-0272.