"Smart Monitor" minimizes server downtime by sending instant notifications to administrators.

San Diego, California – January 5, 2005 - Aplus.Net (www.aplus.net), a leading web site hosting and development firm for small and medium-sized businesses (SMB), announced today the release of Smart Monitor, a highly customizable server monitoring and event notification service.

Smart Monitor gives dedicated server customers a centralized server monitoring suite and the ability to create custom email alerts for a number of key server events. With these reporting tools and instant email notification for key server events, web businesses can dramatically decrease server downtime.

Available for both Unix and Windows platforms, users access Smart Monitor via an easy-to-use, intuitive web interface. The web-based interface can be accessed from any location, and includes a wealth of visual reporting and statistical data that helps server administrators understand all aspects of server performance, availability, and load.

"Smart Monitor offers small businesses enterprise-class server reporting tools at affordable prices," said Ivan Vachovsky, CEO of Aplus.Net.

Aplus.Net is offering two versions of the Smart Monitor service based on the needs of the organization: a basic service for the monitoring of the following server protocols; HTTP, SMTP, FTP, SSH, SSL, and ICMP; and an advanced service with additional tools to help monitor server performance, bandwidth, and SQL transactions. Aplus.Net is also offering a promotional discount to customers who also order their Smart Console service, a remote server configuration utility that can be accessed even when a server is not responding.

More information about Smart Monitor can be found by visiting http://servers.aplus.net/smart_monitor.html. To order Smart Monitor, existing customers can either call their existing sales representative or subscribe to the service via the Aplus.Net Control Panel, while new customers can contact an Aplus.Net product consultant at 1-877-275-8763.

About Aplus.Net
Aplus.Net is a leading provider of Internet services to small and medium-sized businesses. Aplus.Net specializes in providing a complete Internet presence, including domain name registration, corporate identity on the Internet, matching e-mail addresses, web design, web hosting, e-commerce, credit card processing tools, and website maintenance. Aplus.Net is among the ten largest privately held web hosting and domain name registration companies in the USA and is a facilities-based provider. Aplus.Net has been awarded many awards for excellence, including the CNET Editors’ Choice Award. For more information about Aplus.Net, please visit www.aplus.net.

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