Provides customized web hosting and virtualization support to new SaaS web site development solution.

PEER 1 Network Enterprises, Inc., an internet infrastructure provider, today announced that it has launched Sitemasher, a web site development service that combines ease of use with the power that enterprise users demand. The company says that Sitemasher provides a fully managed, hosted web site solution that integrates the web site building and publishing environment, content management system (CMS), analytics and search engine optimization (SEO), all within a single platform.

The company claims that Sitemasher provides a rich, technical framework that gives businesses the tools and services to create their own data-driven web applications without programming. It says that this approach has enabled the company to grow quickly with more than 2,000 customers since beta-testing began in April.

"As we look toward the future of the hosting industry, we see customizations, such as the solution we created for Sitemasher, becoming more prevalent," said Robert Miggins, senior vice president of business development for PEER 1. "The ability to channel our powerful network to support and enable virtualization, is key for the growth of forward-thinking tech companies like Sitemasher, and helps them carve out a niche in the Web 2.0 space."

"When we researched hosting companies, PEER 1 was the only one that was willing to put together a customized solution that was a fit for us," said Sitemasher CEO Ron Moravek. "They have one of the most extensive and highest performing networks in the world and are well respected for this. No one else could provide us the solution for our cloud computing that we needed, but PEER 1 stepped up and made it work. PEER 1 provides us with the ability to offer our customers scalability, reliability, and load balancing so they don't have to worry about exceeding their limits if business is good."