Connectria Provides High Availability E-Commerce Hosting with Clustered Web Servers running Microsoft SQL Server Databases & Redundant Disaster Recovery Servers For Southco

ST. LOUIS, MO (November 2, 2004) - Connectria Corporation today announced that it has been awarded a multi-year contract to provide a high-availability web environment to Southco, Inc, a privately held Pennsylvania manufacturer. This solution will provide Southco's global clients with the ability to place orders, check order status, and communicate with Southco's staff 24/7.

As part of this environment, Connectria will provide a high availability web infrastructure consisting of dedicated Microsoft Windows servers located in Connectria's St. Louis, Missouri, data center, and redundant disaster recovery servers located in Connectria's Philadelphia data center. This high availability environment consists of clustered Microsoft web servers running Microsoft SQL Server databases connected to Connectria's high-performance Internet infrastructure and Storage Area Network (SAN) to deliver both on-demand storage and on-demand Internet bandwidth for Southco.

Connectria will utilize its St. Louis-based 24/7 Network Operations Center (NOC) in conjunction with its sophisticated enterprise monitoring tools to support Southco. Southco will have real-time visibility into its e-commerce environment via Connectria's secure, customized web portal available as part of Connectria's standard offering. Southco will leverage Connectria's redundant Internet and data center infrastructure, its 24x7 NOC, and its expertise in IT infrastructure technologies from Microsoft and Cisco. Connectria is a Microsoft Certified Solutions Provider.

About Southco, Inc.
Southco is a leading global provider of engineered access solutions, including latches, captive fasteners, hinges, handles, and other accessories for applications in the marine, networking, telecommunications, computer, automotive, mass transit, off-highway/construction, RV/caravan, industrial machinery and HVAC industries. Southco is strongly focused on customized engineering solutions and global support for its key customers. The company aspires to be a virtual engineering center for its customers' engineered-access solutions and is committed to providing outstanding quality an overall satisfaction. Southco's promise to its customers is to connect, create and innovate to provide the best solution for every access engineering problem. More information can be found at www.southco.com.

About Connectria
Connectria is a profitable, growing and privately held provider of world-class IT outsourcing services targeted to large and Midsized organizations worldwide. Connectria's business has been built through reinvesting profits and without any debt or equity financing. Thus, Connectria is beholden to no one except our customers. Connectria operates world-class Data Centers, Network Operations Centers, and Engineering Centers located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA and St. Louis, Missouri, USA. From these facilities, Connectria operates as a virtual extension of our clients' IT organizations.

Connectria's services allow our clients to do more and spend less on their IT infrastructures, typically by 25 - 60% or more. Connectria is staffed 24 hours, 365 days per year to build, monitor and manage mission critical IT environments for our clients. Connectria offers an array of services including full outsourcing of IT infrastructures, managed dedicated hosting, disaster recovery solutions, remote monitoring, onsite facilities management, and custom software development and engineering services. For more information, please contact Connectria at 1-800-781-7820 or visit us online at www.connectria.com.

To learn more about Connectria or to receive a detailed quote on any of our services, please contact us.