Connectria's Managed Hosting Services for Ameren's Website Ranked 1st In Performance Among Industry Peers
ST. LOUIS, MO (December 1, 2003) - Connectria Corporation today announced that the sophisticated web
infrastructure that it hosts and manages for Ameren Corp. (
www.ameren.com) has been ranked No. 1 among 19 utility Web sites
based on its response time in a survey conducted by Gomez Performance Network that appeared in Platt's Energy Business &
Technology magazine. The strength of these results is directly attributable to the exceptional response time and performance
of Connectria's IT infrastructure and services.
The Web site's response time, or the number of seconds it takes to download an entire Web page, was 0.92 seconds, compared
to 1.76 seconds for the No. 2 site. Ameren's site also ranked exceptionally high for availability, and was available 99.89
percent of the time the survey showed. The benchmark response time was 3.04 seconds and the availability was 99.14 percent.
About Ameren Corp.
With assets of $14.7 billion, Ameren Corp. (NYSE: AEE) owns a diverse mix of electric generating plants strategically
located in its Midwest market with a capacity of more than 14,600 megawatts. Ameren serves 1.7 million electric customers
and 500,000 natural gas customers in a 49,000 square-mile area of Missouri and Illinois.
About Connectria
Connectria is a profitable, growing and privately held provider of world-class IT Infrastructure Solutions 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 hosting, disaster recovery,
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.
