Rotterdam, October 2nd 2006 - Last Thursday accountancy firm Deloitte, initiator of the prestigious Deloitte Technology Fast 50 awards, announced that Hosting Concepts, still under the old name Netnation Europe, has won the 8th position in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 competition. This competition is held between the fifty fastest growing technology companies in the Netherlands. This makes Hosting Concepts also the fastest growing webhosting company in the Netherlands according to Deloitte.

Since 1997 Netnation Europe positions itself with hosting brands targeted at specific markets. At this moment in time Netnation has been renamed to Hosting Concepts together with the other brands.

Hosting Concepts has grown at an extreme pace the last few years. Today we have over 40 employees in two countries. The last 5 years our revenue has grown with a stunning 1800%.

The hosting concepts
The brands behind Hosting Concepts are:

• Netnation: focussed on small and midsize companies in the Netherlands and Belgium, offering shared hosting, domain name registration, co-location and dedicated server hosting. This brand offers high quality in both products and support.
• Flexservers: Wholesale dedicated server and virtual server hosting brand. The low priced dedicated hosting solutions of Flexservers were a breakthrough in the Benelux market. Flexservers specifically focusses on Spain, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Belgium and the United States.
• Openprovider: Fully automated inhouse developed domain registration platform specifically aimed at ISP's, webdesigners and IT companies. They can fully manage all aspects of their domain registration business through Openprovider.
• Watsnel.nl and Doemee.be: hosting concepts targeted at the upcoming consumer market in respectively the Netherlands and Belgium. They offer very low prices combined with fully integrated sitebuilder functionality.

With this variety of hosting solutions Hosting Concepts is a key player in the consumer, small and midsize businesses and multinational markets.

Facts and Figures
The last five years Hosting Concepts has grown at an extraordinary pace resulting in the following results according to the Deloitte Fast 50.

• 2004 Hosting Concepts was at position 24 with 288% growth
• 2005 Hosting Concepts was at position 19 with 575% growth
• 2006 Hosting Concepts was at position 8 with 1837% growth