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Montréal (Québec) December 15, 2011 — iWeb.com, a global provider of Internet hosting services and IT infrastructure, is proud to introduce its new reseller program. The announcement comes just a few weeks after iWeb launched its new website.

By reselling iWeb’s dedicated servers, partners can offer value-added services, such as fully-managed hosting, shared hosting, vps hosting, virtualization and so on, without having to manage and invest in costly hosting infrastructure, like datacenters and network.

iWeb’s reseller program is designed to offer a lucrative business opportunity for companies and entrepreneurs offering hosting services. “Our approach is crystal clear,” said Curtis Phillips, iWeb’s Partner Relationship Manager, “We are entering into a partnership with web hosters as peers and partners, not just clients. We are making a promise to help them gain an advantage over their competition by uniting with us.”

Joining the program offers access to many benefits, including:

- Great discounts from regular listed pricing, and no setup fees.
- A world class network so partners can confidently offer reliable hosting
- A dedicated account manager to insure getting adequate support when needed.
- Hardware replacement, free reinstalls, power and uptime guarantee.
- Flexible monthly billing for all the servers.
- Exclusive offers on overstock and clearance inventory.

Dedicated account managers will take the time to get to know each partner and their business so that they can better help them meet their business targets. iWeb also plans to develop the program and introduce new features based on the conversations and feedback received from its reseller partners.

Visit the page http://iweb.com/reseller-hosting to become a reseller partner or to get more information.

About iWeb

iWeb is a worldwide provider of Internet hosting services and IT infrastructure. Operating four data centers, iWeb has a capacity of 34,000 dedicated servers, over 1,100 colocation racks and Internet capacity of 77 Gbit/s, divided between nine providers.

One of Canada’s 200 fastest growing companies according to PROFIT Magazine, iWeb now generates more than 60% of its revenues from abroad. With revenues of USD $35 million in 2011, iWeb provides services to more than 25,000 customers in 150 countries.

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For further information, please contact:

Stéphane Jose
Communications officer
communications@iweb.com

Montreal (Quebec), November 23, 2011 — iWeb, a global provider of Internet hosting services and IT infrastructure, is proud to present its new website. The opportunity was ideal because iWeb has just celebrated 15 years of business on the web.

Several changes were made to iWeb.com to improve our visitor’s user experience and to better showcase our products and services.

“The customer experience is central to our business values. We wanted to offer the same visual quality and ergonomics on our site that we implement in our products, like the Smart Server’s Control Center”, said Martin Leclair, President, Products and Technology at iWeb. “Hundreds of hours of design, content writing, programming and integration were put in to achieve this and we hope our visitors will enjoy”, he added.

Meticulously crafted, fast and easy to navigate, the new site showcases iWeb’s products and services at a glance. A new menu on one side of the home page, puts forward unmanaged, dedicated servers that can be ordered and activated directly from the site. On the other side, one can find a description of our infrastructure design services and advanced solutions and speak with a specialist for more information. The site also features iWeb’s new server management and monitoring packages.

“This new website is another step in the evolution of the company, which began in June with its privatization and merger with the investment fund Novacap” mentions Eric Chouinard, iWeb’s Co-founder and CEO. “The last 15 years went by very quickly. The dreams of a few entrepreneurs have been realized with the help of an ever-expanding team”, adding, “What is most exciting, after all these years, is that the best is yet to come.”

The website will continue to evolve as iWeb introduces new features and products throughout 2012.

About iWeb

iWeb is a worldwide provider of Internet hosting services and IT infrastructure. Operating four data centers, iWeb has a capacity of 34,000 dedicated servers, over 1,100 colocation racks and Internet capacity of 77 Gbit/s, divided between nine providers.

According to PROFIT Magazine, iWeb is one of Canada’s 200 fastest growing companies. The company now generates more than 60% of its sales from abroad with revenues of US$35 million in 2011.

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For further information, please contact:

Stéphane Jose
Communications officer
communications@iweb.com

Several media outlets have recently published articles based on a report from the Citizen Lab organization, which can be found here: http://citizenlab.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/canadian_connection.pdf

The report, entitled “The Canadian Connection: An investigation of Syrian government and Hezbullah web hosting in Canada” highlights a very important issue, providing a summary of what has become a complex problem for the web hosting industry.

The Canadian government has enacted regulations that restrict Canadian firms such as iWeb from doing business with certain foreign individuals and entities. iWeb is committed to strict compliance with these laws and continues to monitor its compliance.

In 2008, iWeb inadvertently hosted two websites affiliated with Hezbollah. When iWeb learned of the websites’ affiliation, it cancelled its web hosting services.

Canada has enacted targeted sanctions against certain Syrian government entities and individuals. Canada has not enacted a broad embargo against doing business with Syria.

The Citizen lab report identified a number of Syrian government entities for which the internet address resolves directly or indirectly to iWeb. With one exception, none of the listed entities are subject to Canadian sanctions. The exception is Addunia T.V. which was listed as a sanctioned entity on October 3, 2011. iWeb has not provided any services directly to Addunia T.V. and is investigating whether its facilities have been used by one of its customers for the benefit of Addunia T.V. without its knowledge. iWeb will be taking all appropriate steps in light of its findings.

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Montreal (Québec) October 20, 2011 — iWeb.com, a global provider of Internet hosting services and IT infrastructure, proudly announces the activation of the 3000th Smart Server and celebrates by the same token the first birthday of its flagship server.

One year ago, iWeb introduced its biggest innovation to date. The launch of the Smart Server, the first product based on iWeb’s  SmartLayer technology, marked the first step in transforming the company into an innovative provider of automated Web hosting services.

A more intelligent Smart Server

Since its release, the product has evolved and the iWeb team has delivered a multitude of features to its customers in order to give them more control over the management of their servers. The promise to deliver a product that eliminates many of the problems normally associated with the management and use of a dedicated server was successfully fulfilled.

“We stayed in touch with our customers and developped features that meet their expectations ,” said Martin Leclair, iWeb’s President of Products and Technology . “Customers who buy a Smart Server today will also benefit from any new feature that will be added in the future.” he adds.

What does the Smart Server have to offer today?

Over the year, several features were added with both increased security and server management ease in mind, all available through the Control Center, the Smart Server’s user-friendly management interface.  The SuperSmart option provides a software firewall to easily protect critical Smart Server ports and services. Automated Reinstall of the operating system is now available to the customer right  from the Control Center. Customers are now able to easily save and restore their data and their Smart Server configurations  (including MySQL database configurations) in a few clicks with the available R1Soft backup tools. Smart Groups brings together multiple Smart Servers in an environment completely isolated from other clients allowing each server in the group to communicate easily while remaining invisible to other servers connected to the same LAN, as if they were installed in a physical private rack. All these features are now available in the “Smart Services” tab, in the Control Center, for easy management of the Smart Server. Many other features will be rolled out in 2012.

To celebrate the first anniversary of the Smart Server a contest will soon be held. Full details will be announced in coming weeks on the iWeb.com site.

About iWeb

iWeb is a worldwide provider of Internet hosting services and IT infrastructure that provides services to more than 25,000 customers in 150 countries. Operating four data centers, iWeb has a capacity of 34,000 dedicated servers, over 1,100 colocation racks and Internet capacity of 77 Gbit/s, divided between nine providers.

One of Canada’s 100 fastest growing companies according to PROFIT Magazine, iWeb now generates more than 60% of its revenues, from abroad, with revenues of US$29 million in 2010.

Montreal (Quebec), October 11, 2011 — iWeb.com, a global provider of Internet hosting services and IT infrastructure announces today the modification of their dedicated server management and monitoring packages. iWeb aims at better serve its dedicated server customers by providing them with simpler support solutions, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Two new support packages are introduced:

“Managed On Demand” Package

For $75/month, this package includes 2 hours of server management, that can be used for emergency support or for consulting with iWeb’s webhosting specialists. Many services and software are supported on the different operating systems availabe at iWeb. See the complete list at: http://iweb.com/sites/default/files/en_US/doc/iweb-administration-packages.pdf.

“Rapid Response” Monitoring Service

For $49/month this service offers 24/7/365 pro-active monitoring of critical TCP services running on clients dedicated server as well as hardware monitoring, by exemple RAID status (if applicable), CPU usage and disk space. A maximum response time of 15 minutes is guaranteed for a member of the technical support team to manually restart the service that triggered the alert.

The “Ping” monitoring service (with email alerts) is now included free with all iWeb dedicated servers (Smart or Classic) and it is always possible to obtain timely technical support for an unmanaged  server at the hourly rate of $75/hour.

For more information please visit at: http://iweb.com/managed-hosting/server-management/.

About iWeb

iWeb is a worldwide provider of Internet hosting services and IT infrastructure that provides services to more than 25,000 customers in 150 countries. Operating four data centers, iWeb has a capacity of 34,000 dedicated servers, over 1,100 colocation racks and Internet capacity of 77 Gbit/s, divided between nine providers.

One of Canada’s 100 fastest growing companies according to PROFIT Magazine, iWeb now generates more than 60% of its revenues, from abroad, with revenues of US$29 million in 2010.

Montreal (Quebec), October 4, 2011 — iWeb.com, a global provider of Internet hosting services and IT infrastructure announces today the creation of Funio.com. This new company will aim to consolidate all shared hosting and domain name reservation activities, which will no longer be offered by iWeb. This service supports over 15,000 clients, 23,000 websites and 32,000 domain names in over 100 countries around the world.

iWeb’s president and chief officer, Eric Chouinard, explains; “I firmly believe that shared hosting must benefit from all the attention of a team of professionals exclusively dedicated to the development of the product. Funio will seize this opportunity to innovate and add value to the products as well as the tools that enable their delivery. In past years, iWeb has invested a lot of time and resources into its “Smart Layer” technology and dedicated servers.

“iWeb will pursue deploying all its efforts in this direction in years to come, thus standing out through this innovation. However, the moment has come to provide our shared hosting customers a dedicated company who will take care of delivering the best out of the service”, he added. The creation of Funio.com also explicits the two company’s mission: iWeb for dedicated servers and Funio for shared hosting.

iWeb has named Sylvain Leclair, until recently iWeb’s CDO and vice-president of sales and marketing, to the position of president of Funio. “Funio has a lot of work to do in order to finalise the transition, but the priority will be to add value to the shared hosting services by offering better support and tools that will allow the customer a better control over his hosting” he mentionned. “Moreover, in the next year, Funio will add many new features to raise the value of the services received by the shared hosting customers. We will rethink our infrastructure, including the domain name management system who will undergo a long due facelift”, he added.

About iWeb

iWeb is a worldwide provider of Internet hosting services and IT infrastructure that provides services to more than 25,000 customers in 150 countries. Operating four data centers, iWeb has a capacity of 34,000 dedicated servers, over 1,100 colocation racks and Internet capacity of 77 Gbit/s, divided between nine providers.

One of Canada’s 100 fastest growing companies according to PROFIT Magazine, iWeb now generates more than 60% of its revenues, from abroad, with revenues of US$29 million in 2010.

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For further information, please contact:

Sylvain Leclair
President, Funio
http://www.funio.com
sleclair@funio.com
514-286-4242 x2111

MONTREAL, Sept. 6, 2011 /CNW Telbec/ – Fondaction, The CSN’s investment fund for cooperation and employment increases its investment in iWeb Group by investing an additional 2,5 million dollars, bringing its total investment to 13,5 million since 2007. This new funding completes a major financing package attributed to the privatization of the company last June.

Founded in 1996, iWeb is one of the most important Internet infrastructure companies in Canada. It employs over 200 specialists working is four data centers at the cutting edge of technology. iWeb has more than 25,000 customers in 150 countries. Its major shareholder is Novacap Technologies III, s.e.c.. The Caisse Dépôt et Placement du Quebec are also among the shareholders.

« iWeb is a leader in a growing industry. The company relies on an experienced management team and its strong partners. We are pleased to further support a company that creates quality employment in the metropolotain area, helping to raise awareness of Quebec’s expertise in a expanding sector. We are confident that iWeb has every asset it needs to increase its presence in the international markets.” Said Regent Watier, Chief Investment Officer at Fondaction.

“Novacap is proud to partner with a well established company in the promising area of the storage of computer data. By combining the technical expertise of iWeb executives with years of operational and financial experience of the Novacap team, we believe that this formula will position the company to achieve the objectives for growth and profitability. This new partnership will enable the company to better direct its efforts towards growing market segments in the knowledge that its new partners will be there to support it.” Said Stephane Tremblay, Senior Partner at Novacap.

“IWeb has had an excellent relationship with Fondaction since 2007 and I’m really pleased with its development. We can now move on to another stage of our growth being better equipped financially to reach our goal of reaching $ 100 million in annual revenue, “said Eric Chouinard, iWeb CEO. “With the support of Fondaction and the management experience of Novacap, iWeb can now focus fully on developing its own technology, Smart Layer, and the resulting products like the Smart Server,” he added.

For more information about the privatization, please see iWeb press releases of March 4th, May 3rd and June 16th.

About Fondaction

Fondaction invests in Québec SMEs to contribute to creating and maintaining jobs in Quebec, with a view to sustainable development. It manages assets of $ 843 million from retirement savings collected from more than 108,000 shareholders. It is the financial partner of approximately one hundred enterprises and partner or specialized funds from all sectors of activity as well as the social economy.

www.fondaction.com

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Information: Telephone numbers below are for the exclusive use of the media.

Source : Fondaction CSN

Information :

Suzanne La Ferrière, Responsible for Communications, Fondaction CSN
514 525-7041, 514 704-2944 (cell.)
suzanne.laferriere@fondaction.com

Stéphane Jose, Communications Manager, iWeb
514 286-4242, poste 2114
sjose@iweb.com

Stéphane Tremblay, Senior Partner, Novacap Technologies III
450-651-5000, poste 256
stremblay@novacap.ca

Montreal (Quebec), August 22nd, 2011 — iWeb.com, a global provider of Internet hosting services and IT infrastructure, is proud to present the new feature for Smart Servers: Smart Groups. Smart Group is a private virtual LAN service for all the Smart Servers in your account and is completely dedicated to your account.

Servers within a group can communicate while remaining invisible to other clients’ servers connected to the same local network, like a private rack. The Smart Servers share information via a local link, which increases the security of your servers. Furthermore, local bandwidth is unlimited with the SuperSmart package.

Smart Group joins the Smart Firewall and Backup Service features launched earlier this year.

“The availability of these three  features make Smart Servers a safe and solid solution for businesses of any size ” said Martin Leclair, President, Product and Technology, at iWeb. “Smart Servers are designed to be customizable on-demand. They combine the strength and performance of dedicated servers with flexibility of Cloud, offering you the advantages of both,” he added.

The installation of Smart Firewall, Smart Group or our Backup Service is immediate and requires no downtime on your server. Complete control of these features is provided to you through the Control Center, the management console for Smart Servers, available exclusively at iWeb.

Smart Groups and Smart Firewall are included in the SuperSmart package offered at 20$ per month.

The Smart Backup Service, based on R1Soft products, is available starting at 15$ per month.

About iWeb

iWeb is a worldwide provider of Internet hosting services and IT infrastructure. Operating four data centers, iWeb has a capacity of 34,000 dedicated servers, over 1,100 colocation racks and Internet capacity of 77 Gbit/s, divided between nine providers.

One of Canada’s 100 fastest growing companies according to PROFIT Magazine, iWeb now generates more than 60% of its revenues, from abroad. With revenues of US$29 million in 2010, iWeb provides services to more than 25,000 customers in 150 countries.

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For further information, please contact:

Stéphane Jose
Communications officer
communications@iweb.com

Montreal, Quebec, June 16, 2011 — iWeb Group Inc. (TSXV: IWB) (“iWeb”), a global provider of Internet hosting services and IT infrastructure, announces today the completion of its previously-announced amalgamation (the “Amalgamation”) under a merger agreement with 7807201 Canada Inc. and 7807210 Canada Inc., two corporations controlled directly or indirectly by Novacap Technologies III, L.P., Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec and an investment vehicle affiliated with Bank Street Capital Partners and certain of their affiliates.

iWeb’s common shares are being delisted from the TSX Venture Exchange.

Pursuant to the Amalgamation, each Shareholder received one redeemable preferred share of the amalgamated company for each Share held immediately prior to the Amalgamation. Each such redeemable share will be redeemed immediately upon the Amalgamation for a cash consideration of $1.50.

The amalgamated corporation will continue under the name iWeb Group Inc.

For more information on the Amalgamation, see iWeb’s news releases of March 4 and May 3, 2011.

About iWeb

iWeb provides Internet hosting services and IT infrastructure to nearly 24,000 customers in 150 countries. With its four data centers, iWeb’s total capacity has reached 34,000 dedicated servers, over 1,100 co-location cabinets and 77 Gigabits per second (Gbps) of Internet connectivity, from 9 separate providers.

One of Canada’s 100 fastest growing companies according to PROFIT Magazine, iWeb now generates more than 60% of its revenues, which reached US$29 millions in 2010, from abroad. Founded in 1996 in Montreal, iWeb shares are traded on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol “IWB”.

About Novacap

With over $750 million in assets under management, Novacap is one of Canada’s leading private equity and venture capital firms. Since 1981, its partnership strategy has helped over 50 companies accelerate growth and maximize value. Novacap is one of North America’s top private equity firms, with first-quartile returns in North America. Further information about Novacap is available at www.novacap.ca.

About Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec

The Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec is a financial institution that manages funds primarily for public and private pension and insurance plans. As at December 31, 2010, it held $151.7 billion in net assets. As one of Canada’s leading institutional fund managers, the Caisse invests in major financial markets, private equity and real estate.

About Bank Street Capital Partners

Bank Street Capital Partners is a private equity fund focused on growth equity, acquisition finance, and special situations for small and mid-size growth companies in the Communications, Media and Technology sectors. Bank Street Capital Partners is led by a senior investment team that has originated, structured, and executed more than 1,000 financial and strategic transactions during the course of their careers. Bank Street Capital Partners leverages the extensive resources of The Bank Street Group.

Forward-Looking Statements

Except for historical information provided herein, this press release contains “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the applicable securities legislation regarding the proposal to privatize iWeb, including the statement regarding the terms of the transaction. Therefore, readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of iWeb to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements in this press release. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the payment of the amounts due to iWeb’s shareholders under the Amalgamation, and the risks associated with general economic conditions. The forward-looking statements in this press release are made as of the date of this press release and, except as required by law, iWeb disclaims any obligation to update or revise publicly any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information or future events.

For further information, please contact:

Pierre-Luc Toupin
Finance Director
iWeb Group Inc.
(514) 286-4242 ext. 2335
pltoupin@iweb.com

Bernard Dahl
Investor Relations / Media Relations
Presentis
(514) 802-2801
bernard@presentis.ca

Montreal, Quebec, June 13, 2011 — iWeb Group Inc. (TSXV: IWB) (“iWeb”), a global provider of Internet hosting services and IT infrastructure, announces that its shareholders (the “Shareholders”) today approved, at a special meeting (the “Meeting”), iWeb’s previously-announced amalgamation (the “Amalgamation”) under a merger agreement with 7807201 Canada Inc. and 7807210 Canada Inc., two corporations controlled directly or indirectly by Novacap Technologies III, L.P., Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec and an investment vehicle affiliated with Bank Street Capital Partners and certain of their affiliates.

The Shareholders also approved the delisting of iWeb’s common shares (the “Shares”) from the TSX Venture Exchange.

The Amalgamation was approved at the Meeting by 99.99% of the votes cast by all shareholders and by 99.98% of the shareholders other than interested parties in the Amalgamation. No Shareholders exercised their dissent rights.

Pursuant to the Amalgamation, each Shareholder will receive one redeemable preferred share of the amalgamated company for each Share held immediately prior to the Amalgamation. Each such redeemable share will be redeemed immediately upon the Amalgamation for a cash consideration of $1.50. Subject to satisfaction of customary conditions, it is anticipated that the Amalgamation and the transactions contemplated thereby will close on or about June 16, 2011.

For more information on the Amalgamation, see iWeb’s news releases of March 4 and May 3, 2011.

About iWeb

iWeb provides Internet hosting services and IT infrastructure to nearly 24,000 customers in 150 countries. With its four data centers, iWeb’s total capacity has reached 34,000 dedicated servers, over 1,100 co-location cabinets and 77 Gigabits per second (Gbps) of Internet connectivity, from 9 separate providers.

One of Canada’s 100 fastest growing companies according to PROFIT Magazine, iWeb now generates more than 60% of its revenues, which reached US$29 millions in 2010, from abroad. Founded in 1996 in Montreal, iWeb shares are traded on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol “IWB”.

About Novacap

With over $750 million in assets under management, Novacap is one of Canada’s leading private equity and venture capital firms. Since 1981, its partnership strategy has helped over 50 companies accelerate growth and maximize value. Novacap is one of North America’s top private equity firms, with first-quartile returns in North America. Further information about Novacap is available at www.novacap.ca.

About Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec

The Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec is a financial institution that manages funds primarily for public and private pension and insurance plans. As at December 31, 2010, it held $151.7 billion in net assets. As one of Canada’s leading institutional fund managers, the Caisse invests in major financial markets, private equity and real estate.

About Bank Street Capital Partners

Bank Street Capital Partners is a private equity fund focused on growth equity, acquisition finance, and special situations for small and mid-size growth companies in the Communications, Media and Technology sectors. Bank Street Capital Partners is led by a senior investment team that has originated, structured, and executed more than 1,000 financial and strategic transactions during the course of their careers. Bank Street Capital Partners leverages the extensive resources of The Bank Street Group.

Forward-Looking Statements

Except for historical information provided herein, this press release contains “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the applicable securities legislation regarding the proposal to privatize iWeb, including the statement regarding the terms of the proposed transaction. Therefore, readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of iWeb to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements in this press release. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the satisfaction of the conditions to consummate the Amalgamation, the occurrence of any event, change or other circumstances that could give rise to termination of the Merger Agreement, a delay in the consummation of the Amalgamation or failure to complete the Amalgamation for any other reason, the amount of the costs, fees, expenses and charges related to the Amalgamation, and the risks associated with general economic conditions. The forward-looking statements in this press release are made as of the date of this press release and, except as required by law, iWeb disclaims any obligation to update or revise publicly any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information or future events.

For further information, please contact:

Philip Tousignant
Chief Financial Officer
iWeb Group Inc.
(514) 286-4242 ext. 2149
ptousignant@iweb.com

Bernard Dahl
Presentis
Investor Relations / Media Relations
(514) 802-2801
bernard@presentis.ca