Panther Express Announces Web 2.0 Initiative for Social Networking, Internet Video, Music and Online Gaming

Everyone wants Web 2.0 but Panther Delivers It

San Francisco, CA – (April 23, 2008) – Panther Express, http://www.pantherexpress.net, a leading global provider of high-performance, best value content delivery services, announced their support for Web 2.0 companies. Applications like social networking, Internet video including HD, online and download gaming, music, advertising and other types of rich media and multimedia all gain strong CDN performance as a result of Panther’s proven and flexible service offerings. Panther’s proprietary, in-house created cache serving and delivery optimizing technologies provide an ideal solution for vibrant, growing Web 2.0 companies. Panther provides a nimble and flexible content delivery network - an agnostic platform that is simple to understand and can be up and running in a matter of minutes, allowing sites to concentrate on their core competitive advantage – making more and better content to expand visitor activity and monetization.

Designed for this year’s Internet rather than last decade’s, Panther Express content delivery is reliable, scalable, and consistently ranks among the top on Gomez performance reports. Panther’s proven shielding solution created specifically for web 2.0 sites large working sets, elegantly handles large working set issues, and the strong cache hit ratio ensures high performance, minimizes demand on origin infrastructure, and efficiently handles “long tail” content requests. Panther Express enables web 2.0 entrepreneurs to effectively respond to rapidly changing market requirements without worrying about scaling their network to meet aggressive and unpredictable growth trajectories.

Unlike other CDNs, Panther provides a variety of technical and business friendly benefits including:

• No capital investment or up-front charges to get started
• Provision and go live in minutes
• Pay for only the delivered traffic – no minimum charges, no penalty for "bursting" through an arbitrary threshold, while still benefiting from low rates which decline as you grow
• Instantly establish a global presence
• Ensure fast and reliable delivery to optimize user experience and increase monetization
• Powerful origin protection resulting in better performance and lower costs
• Shielding technology to support Web 2.0 large working set requirements

“The dynamic nature of Web 2.0 companies’ business models and traffic patterns epitomizes the need for speed and flexibility,” says Kevin Ryan, co-founder of Panther Express. “You start with a great idea and find that it morphs into an incredible success overnight. As you adapt, your delivery network has to respond — instantly. In this rapidly evolving environment, it is virtually impossible to predict your traffic levels, let alone commit to a minimum traffic level. Furthermore, all your time and effort should go toward building competitive advantage, not commodity infrastructure.”