Award Winning Music Site Expands Portfolio Delivered on DediPower's Managed Hosting Services

Award Winning Music Site Expands Portfolio Delivered on DediPower's Managed Hosting Services

READING, England, December 3/PRNewswire/ --

- Slicethepie Continues to Revolutionise the Music Industry With
its Innovative Business Model

DediPower, one of the UK's fastest growing managed hosting providers, is
supporting the launch of a new version of Slicethepie, the leading online
financing platform for the music industry that enables recording artists to
raise money directly from fans and investors. Slicethepie has exclusively
used DediPower's Managed Hosting Services since its launch in June 2007.

Slicethepie introduces a many-to-many financial model into an industry
that currently operates on a few-to-many basis. It offers a compelling
business model that harnesses the Wisdom of Crowds(1) to monetise the 'long
tail' of the music industry. Since its launch in June 2007, over 2 million
music reviews have been submitted on Slicethepie and over 20 artists have
been financed. Over 30 artists are currently raising finance on the new site.

"Being an exclusively online business means we are very reliant on the
quality of our managed hosting provider. When we launched Slicethepie we
selected DediPower based on its track record and strong industry
recommendation. DediPower has proven to be an excellent partner, who is very
responsive to any issues that arise supported by a significant depth of
technical and commercial skills. We would strongly recommend DediPower," said
Steve Cox, Operations Manager, Slicethepie.

DediPower is focused on the eBusiness market with its Managed Hosting
solutions enabling businesses to focus on their core competencies to deliver
their business goals. The DediPower business server solutions provide custom
built high-specification dedicated servers combined with a world-class
hosting infrastructure that has been designed to ensure the highest levels of
network uptime, availability, flexibility and security.

"We are very proud of the relationship we have established with
Slicethepie, who represent another highly innovative company that has chosen
to launch and operate their business model on DediPower's managed hosting
services. DediPower has established an excellent reputation not only amongst
large scale internet users but also small to medium sized organisations as
the managed hosting provider of choice," said Craig Martin, CEO, DediPower.

About DediPower Managed Hosting

DediPower, one of the UK's fastest growing managed hosting providers
delivers a range of managed hosting solutions including: dedicated servers,
application and exchange hosting, high availability multi-server clusters and
co-location. DediPower is a Microsoft Gold Certified partner and a RedHat
Ready Hosting partner. A winner of numerous awards, hosted sites include
Sony, Sam Learning, Institute of Physics, Coca-Cola, Capita, First Great
Western and Carphone Warehouse. Established in 1998 and self funded,
DediPower runs its own purpose built data centres totalling over 22,000 sq ft
situated in Reading, UK. http://www.dedipower.com

(1) About Wisdom of Crowds

Research and experiments into the Wisdom of Crowds has been carried out
for over 100 years and this was succinctly summarised in James Surowiecki's
book of the same name(1). Time and time again he demonstrates through
historic scientific research, observation and logic that, given the right
conditions, the simplest way to get reliably good answers is just to ask the
crowd each time. Chasing the expert is a mistake - we should stop hunting and
simply ask the crowd because chances are, it knows.

For more information call +44(0)870-252-3600, email info@dedipower.com
or visit our website - http://www.dedipower.com

Source: DediPower Managed Hosting Ltd

For more information:, Jodie Hoare, DediPower Managed Hosting, Tel: +44(0)870-252-3600, E-mail: info@dedipower.com

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