Mosso Brings Simplicity to the Power of the Cloud

The Hosting Cloud(TM) Delivers an Easier-than-Ever Platform for
Deploying, Powering and Scaling Web Applications
SAN ANTONIO--(Business Wire)--
Mosso(R) today announced a new and improved version of its core
hosting offering. The newly named solution, The Hosting Cloud, is an
advanced, easy-to-use, cross-platform cloud computing offering that,
for the first time, allows for seamless scalability. The new approach
eliminates the cost and complexity of scaling web infrastructure,
specifically for developers and companies looking to deploy large web
applications. The company also announced today new utility pricing for
its business-class hosting solution.

The Hosting Cloud offers power without complexity to provide
significant benefits for developers. Current solutions are often
complicated and require additional coding to use. Mosso, on the other
hand, enables developers to get their applications up and running in
three easy steps: choose a domain, select operating system of choice
and set default technology. Another important benefit of Mosso --
round-the-clock live tech support -- is rare among cloud compute
providers. Other recently added features of The Hosting Cloud include
Ruby on Rails, Windows2008/IIS7 hosting and SFTP access.

New Pricing Highlights

Currently, for $100 per month, The Hosting Cloud includes 24x7
live technical support (phone and chat) and simple, online software to
manage projects and clients. It offers 500 GB bandwidth, 50 GB disk
space and 3 million web requests per month -- enough to power almost
any website or application. The solution also offers unlimited web
applications and email accounts, restricted only by the included
resources. The newly added web request metric is more
straight-forward, granular and outcome-based than other units and
formulas used - in hosting, it's about as close to pay-per-use there
is. As traffic grows, customers 'pay-as-they-grow' through Mosso's
utility pricing model that delivers capacity when and where it's
needed.

With today's announcement, Mosso now offers unlimited and
automatic scaling for web applications. When a user exceeds the
resources allotted in the $100/month membership, scale pricing kicks
in to deliver just the capacity that's needed.

Current pricing for additional capacity beyond the base membership
is:

-- Disk Space- $0.50/GB

-- Bandwidth- $0.25/GB

-- Requests- $0.03/1,000 requests

For more information about the new offering, please visit
http://www.mosso.com/pricing.jsp.

"At Mosso, our mission is to deliver on the promise of cloud
computing - to make it as easy as possible for people to deploy and
run web applications," said Todd Morey, co-founder of Mosso. "We say
code it, load it and go. We want to deliver the best possible service
and support to our customers so that they can focus on running their
businesses, not their applications."

With The Hosting Cloud, developers do not need to worry about
underlying technology such as servers, VPS's or operating systems. The
new solution combines a 'best-practices' hosting environment with easy
online management -- allowing the developer to choose the framework
that best meets their needs. Mosso's QuickDeploy(TM) provisioning
system is designed to automatically configure and provision each layer
of the technology stack in order to maximize performance so that web
applications automatically scale as traffic surges. Mosso's new
utility pricing model ensures that subscribers then pay for only the
capacity they use. The Hosting Cloud supports Windows and Linux
platforms as well as leading technologies such as PHP, Ruby on Rails
and .NET.

"On today's Internet, the right piece of content can go viral more
quickly than ever before, and Mosso makes scaling to serve the load
very easy," stated Jon Shumate, founder of Roseville, CA-based, web
startup, Phoenomi, Inc. "We are a start-up focused on developing
uniquely fun and viral web products which -- as they grow -- will need
tremendous capacity. Mosso has figured out how to take the hard parts
of scaling and make them automatic by adding a layer of scaling
intelligence over the traditionally "dumb" service of hosting, and as
a result they've become one hell of a cloud service."

Mosso is a company of Rackspace, a leading provider of hosted IT
services. The Hosting Cloud was created by Mosso to give developers
access to the benefits of cloud computing without the technical
complexities and trade-offs associated with existing solutions. To
execute its vision, Mosso tapped into Rackspace's technology expertise
and deep resources to develop the next generation standards-based
cloud computing technology that now runs The Hosting Cloud.

About Rackspace

A recognized leader in the global IT marketplace, Rackspace(R)
delivers a diverse suite of enterprise-class hosted IT services to
businesses of all sizes. Customers choose Rackspace for its hosting
specialization and expertise, backed by the company's award-winning
Fanatical Support(R). By integrating the industry's best technologies
and delivering them as services, Rackspace serves as an extension of
its customers' IT departments. Because Rackspace removes the burden of
infrastructure maintenance and management, customers can focus on
their core business. Rackspace's portfolio of companies also includes
the Mosso(R) (www.mosso.com) cloud computing platform and
Mailtrust(TM) (www.mailtrust.com), a provider of business-class hosted
email solutions. For more information on Rackspace, please visit
www.rackspace.com, or call 800-961-2888.

About Mosso

Mosso, LLC is the home of The Hosting Cloud, providing
enterprise-grade hosting through an easily managed interface so that
developers, designers and IT managers can deploy reliable web
applications quickly and easily. Founded by two former Rackspace
employees, The Hosting Cloud is built upon a cross platform,
clustered-computing architecture. For more information, visit
www.mosso.com or call 1.877.934.0409.

Mosso
Krisana Puccio, 210-883-7699
Product Marketing Manager

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