SCRANTON, PA - June 8, 2004 - BurstNET Technologies, Inc.™ (http://www.burst.net), a leading provider of managed dedicated web hosting services, today announced it is a new member in the Microsoft Certified Partner Program, and has joined the Services Provider Licensing Agreement (SPLA) program. Membership in the Microsoft Certified Partner Program will provide BurstNET™ with resources to help it develop and deploy robust Microsoft solutions that will help speed customers’ time to market and reduce costs.

The Microsoft Certified Partner Program allows BurstNET™ to utilize the Microsoft Certified Partner logo, which is an easy way for customers to recognize BurstNET™ as certified by the Microsoft Corporation. Microsoft offers a variety of resources to program members, including training, technical support, early access to Microsoft products and peer-networking opportunities that allow a variety of partners to come together and provide end-to-end customer solutions.

The agreement allows BurstNET™ to serve as a Microsoft Services Provider License Agent, and to rent licenses to customers on a flexible, month-to-month basis. BurstNET™ is currently licensing Microsoft’s Windows 2003 Web Edition operating system with prices under $15 per month, per license. Microsoft’s Windows 2003 Server Standard Edition is currently available with prices under $25 per month, per license. Together with service from the company's popular NOCSTER™ product line (http://www.nocster.net), as well as the recent product addition of InsPanel (http://www.inspediumsoft.com/), customers can lease a Managed Dedicated Server with fully licensed Windows software and control panel automation—for less than $100 per month!

“When customers are looking to implement a Microsoft technology solution for their business, their best bet is to turn to a company that specializes in such—a Microsoft Certified Partner,” said S. Matthew Arcus, CEO of BurstNET™. “Recently, Microsoft has recognized BurstNET™ for demonstrating this level of expertise and welcomed it as a new Microsoft Certified Partner. Our SPLA agreement with Microsoft provides affordable access to a wide variety of powerful applications that would otherwise be unaffordable to many of our smaller customers.”

About BurstNET™

BurstNET™ is a Managed Hosting & Internet Service Provider hosting over 200,000 websites, maintained on over 1600 servers, for clients in over 150 countries worldwide. The company was founded in 1991, and entered the Web Hosting market in 1996, making it one of the oldest and most respected providers in the industry, as well as one of the longest remaining privately held companies in the sector. Netcraft (http://www.netcraft.com) named BurstNET™ one of the "Fastest Growing Large Hosting Companies in 2003". The BurstNET™ Network Operations Center, located in Scranton, Pennsylvania is a telco-grade facility with diesel generator backup, temperature and environmental control, high security monitoring, and fully redundant UPS power backup systems. The data center is the largest co-location facility, and the only carrier-neutral hotel in the Northeast PA region. The company also provides regional T1/DS3/OC3 connectivity, and is currently rolling out High Speed Wireless Internet (WI-FI) in the local market. The BurstNET™ network is powered via Cisco™ 12000 and 7200 series routers connected to the Internet via multiple 622MBPS OC12 fiber-optic circuits, delivering 1000MBPS GIG-E connectivity from Level3™ (http://www.level3.net), BTN™ (http://www.btnaccess.com), Cogent™ (http://www.cogentco.com), and XO Communications™ (http://www.xo.com), for a total available capacity of over 4GBPS.

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