SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 13, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- One of the web's fastest growing social networking sites, Bebo.com, and the leading birthday reminder and e-card service, BirthdayAlarm.com, select 365 Main as their data center.
"With a combined membership base of 57 million members turning nearly 1 billion pages per month, we had to find a facility that could handle our existing traffic and enable us to scale to meet our expected significant growth," said Michael Birch, chief executive officer of Bebo and BirthdayAlarm. "After looking at several facilities, we chose 365 Main and are confident they will help us achieve our goal of being one of the top 10 sites on the internet."
"365 Main has experienced its own rapid growth so we understand the needs of Bebo and BirthdayAlarm, and are prepared to meet them," said Chris Dolan, chief executive officer of 365 Main. "With state of the art infrastructure, N+ 2 redundancies and seismic readiness, we are the perfect partner to help Bebo and BirthdayAlarm achieve their business goals."
Since the official launch in July 2005, Bebo has been one of the most explosive growth sites in the social networking space. More than 20 million members rely on Bebo to help them stay in touch with their friends, and millions of members from the U.S., UK, Canada and Australia come back to the site daily turning more than half a billion pages per month.
BirthdayAlarm has grown steadily since the company was launched four years ago to become the single largest integrated birthday reminder service and online greeting card destination on the Web with more than 37 million members. The site reminds over 1 million members each day of birthdays and other critical life events like anniversaries and holidays, and provides a free and subscription greeting card service as a one-stop convenience.
About Bebo.com
Bebo is the next generation high school and college social network that enables students to stay in touch with their friends, find long lost friends, and meet new people. Helpful and fun applications make it easy to remember birthdays, share photos, write and read blogs, discover new interests, and just hang out. Bebo's explosive growth is all from word of mouth which ensures the site retains its recurring audience base while continuing to grow and expand globally. In many of the schools, 80% of the students visit the site daily.
About BirthdayAlarm.com
BirthdayAlarm is a leading birthday reminder and e-card service, with more than 30 million members worldwide. Founded in September 2001 as a free birthday reminder service, the site has since expanded its online services to include holiday and anniversary reminders, animated eCards, invitations, games, flowers gifts and more.
Both companies are headquartered in the same office in San Francisco, California, and are privately-owned. For more information, visit www.bebo.com and www.birthdayalarm.com or call (415) 581-0700.
About 365 Incorporated
365 Inc. is an industry leading data center operator. In partnership with Rockwood Capital, 365 provides trusted, secured, world-class carrier neutral data center operations for companies and delivers superior, flexible colocation infrastructure that adapts to customer needs. Equipped N+2 facility-wide redundancy, essential facility status and carrier neutral charter, 365 operates the most intelligently designed data centers in the United States. 365 is a privately held company based in San Francisco. For more information about 365 Main, please contact 877-365-MAIN (6246) or visit www.365main.com
Bebo is a registered trademark of Bebo.com, LLC and BirthdayAlarm is a registered trademark of BirthdayAlarm.com, LLC. 365 Main is a registered trademark of 365 Inc. - The Main Exchange. All other names and trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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