Phoenix, AZ (IPRWIRE) Thu, August 16th, 2007 — The upgrade to ColdFusion 8 not only expands the features of CFMX 7, but also builds on the strong relationship between CrystalTech and the Adobe community. This also continues CrystalTech’s support of the ColdFusion development and gives CrystalTech customers an effective way to deploy a ColdFusion site.

“CrystalTech has a well-respected reputation within the ColdFusion developer community for our advanced infrastructure, fast adoption and affordability,” said Robert Cichon, President of CrystalTech. “We are very proud to offer our renowned support to developers and look forward to continuing our commitment to bringing the latest technology to our new and existing customer base.”

This new version of ColdFusion adds new features for developers including interactive debugger, multi-threaded processing, Adobe Flex™ integration, .NET integration, strong encryption libraries, and provides administrator and RDS account sandboxing.

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Phoenix, AZ, July 13, 2007 – While the upcoming release of Microsoft’s .NET framework contains several bug fixes and updates (so-called “red bits”), it also brings a number of new assemblies and technologies (so called “green bits”) that net developers have been waiting to get their hands on. These green bits include AJAX, LINQ for both C# and VB, and enhancements to the tool sets that will help ease building applications using Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Workflow Foundation and Windows Communication Foundation.

“CrystalTech prides itself as one of the premiere Microsoft partners specializing in Windows web hosting,” said Robert Cichon, CrystalTech President. “We have been part of the Beta program with Microsoft and .NET since day one, and we were one of the first, if not THE first, to have a full-fledged web site management application based on the .NET framework. Our WebControlCenter™ is a prime example of the reliability, stability and security you can get when using the .NET framework.”

As with previous beta hosting plans CrystalTech offered, the plan based on .NET 3.5 will be free for a limited time. The Plan will offer enough disk space and bandwidth so that early adopters can get running on .NET 3.5 as quickly as possible. In addition…

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Phoenix, Arizona (IPRWIRE) Tue, Jun. 19th, 2007 — CrystalTech Web Hosting™ (www.crystaltech.com), a Newtek Business Services™ company (NASDAQ: NEWT) and a leading provider of Windows website hosting, announced the launch of a new sales event that offers customers significant savings along with no additional monthly fees required until 2008.

During its ‘Summer Spectacular’ sale, CrystalTech customers can order any new shared, semi-dedicated and dedicated hosting plan priced $7.95 per month and up and receive free hosting until 2008 when they pay for the first two months and the setup fee upfront. As a result, customers will receive the rest of the year at no charge and will not have to pay for their hosting again until 2008.

“Our sales events have always been met with a great deal of excitement,” said Robert Cichon, CrystalTech President. “This year, we’re taking our Summer Spectacular a step further to encompass all of our offerings, including our Semi-Dedicated and Dedicated plans. When you consider that you can receive as much as $2500 in free hosting, this is a very special promotion that shouldn’t be missed.”

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Phoenix, Arizona (IPRWIRE) Wed, May 9th, 2007 — CrystalTech Web Hosting™, a Newtek Business Services™ company (NASDAQ: NEWT) and a leading provider of shared and dedicated Windows web hosting, recently launched a hosting plan based on Microsoft’s latest web server platform that offers integrated control panel management.

CrystalTech is one of a select few official beta participants for Internet Information Services 7.0 (IIS7) and the only host offering control panel integration. By working closely with Microsoft IIS7 Product Team members, as well as other Microsoft industry partners, to integrate this new server technology into its infrastructure, CrystalTech is already able to offer end-users IIS7 management tools within its WebControlCenter[r], the host’s proprietary control panel.

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Phoenix, Arizona (IPRWIRE) Tues, April 3rd, 2007 — CrystalTech Web Hosting™ (www.crystaltech.com), a Newtek Business Services™ company (NASDAQ: NEWT) and a leading provider of Windows web hosting, is pleased to announce they have increased their sponsorship commitment of the open source web application platform DotNetNuke™ (DNN). The upgrade to Platinum Sponsorship not only expands the partnership between CrystalTech and the DNN Core Team, but also continues CrystalTech’s support of the development community in general and gives CrystalTech customers an efficient way to create anything from a simple website to a full corporate intranet.

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Phoenix, Arizona (IPRWIRE) Thurs, Feb. 1st, 2007 — CrystalTech Web Hosting™ (www.crystaltech.com), a Newtek Business Services™ company (NASDAQ: NEWT), is pleased to announce support for ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 on all of its ASP.NET 2.0 shared hosting plans. ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 (formerly known as Atlas) allows programmers to quickly create more efficient and interactive web content that works across the most popular internet browsers. With this framework, web developers can enhance existing web pages, or create next-generation interfaces, with powerful AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) components. The main benefit to programmers is that the AJAX interface accesses remote services and data directly from the web browser, thereby reducing the number of post backs to the host server. This action makes for a more seamless and natural experience for the end user.

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