Colorado Based Data393 Provides Additional Data Storage To Photobucket, One Of The Nations Fastest Growing Web Sites

Englewood, Colorado - June 1, 2006 - Data393, a leading Colorado managed IT infrastructure provider, today announced a new colocation agreement with Photobucket, the world's leading visual content hosting and publishing service, to locate a portion of the company’s data storage equipment at Data393’s $30 million facility in Englewood, Colo. Data393 will supply Photobucket with a data storage facility that includes power, cooling, and access to a 10 GigE Internet pipeline. Photobucket will use its own equipment and software, and Photobucket personnel will manage the company’s operations in the data center.

Photobucket provides a simple, fast, and reliable service that enables consumers to share and publish visual digital content online. Images, graphic art, and videos can be directly linked from Photobucket to any site, including popular sites like eBay, Gaiaonline, Piczo, Blogger, LiveJournal, Friendster, and Myspace.  By hosting members’ visual digital content, Photobucket relieves them of the investment and burden of owning and operating their own servers. Processing more than 50 billion image requests per month, around two percent of all U.S. Internet traffic, Photobucket’s rapid growth has led to increased demand for reliable connectivity and additional storage.  A percentage of Photobucket’s Internet traffic is routed to Data393, and some of the images hosted by Photobucket are stored in its Englewood facility.

“We selected Data393 due to its capacity to handle large amounts of Internet traffic,” said Photobucket’s Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer Darren Crystal. “This agreement gives Photobucket access to an additional secure data storage facility with room to grow. With its massive, redundant 10GigE Internet pipeline, Data393 is one of only a few data centers in the country with enough bandwidth to support Photobucket’s fast-growing business while ensuring we remain online and active.” 

Photobucket has over 16 million registered members and is adding over 4 million new images daily (45 new images per second). It now ranks as a Top 100 site by traffic according to both Alexa and Nielsen/Netratings. 

“We are pleased to accommodate Photobucket’s unique needs for their high traffic image and video hosting site,” said Data393 CEO Lee Woodward. “Photobucket’s selection of Data393 validates our technical capabilities and our ability to craft a solution that’s customized for their growth and scalability plans.”

Photobucket is based in downtown Palo Alto, Calif., with technology operations and development based in Denver, Colo.

About Data393

Data393 is an IT infrastructure provider offering Colorado businesses the support of a $30 million facility at a fraction of the cost of building it themselves.  Located in the Inverness Business Park in southeast Denver, Data393 offers highly reliable colocation, dedicated servers, connectivity and managed hosting with sophisticated physical security and a high capacity, multiple-carrier network. Data393 is committed to delivering the reliability, scalability and security that mission critical deployments demand. For further information on Data393, visit www.Data393.com or call 800-260-4843.

Press Contact:
Data393: Marc Lumpkin, Altitude Public Relations for Data393, 303-378-2366, marc.lumpkin@data393.com.
Photobucket: Atomic Public Relations, Mike Barash, 415-402-0230, mike@atomicpr.com