Toronto-based Kaboose is an online education and entertainment community for children and is comprised of four Web sites: Kaboose.com, Kidsdomain.com, Funschool.com and Zeeks.com. The sites attract an average of 2.5 million unique visitors and 60 million page views a month. In the last year, Web site traffic to the four sites has increased 400 percent.

"We chose Q9 because our former provider was unable to keep pace with our growth," said Jason DeZwirek, CEO, Kaboose Inc. "Q9's highly scalable infrastructure enabled our sites to handle the 400 percent growth we've experienced over the past year. From the first day, Q9 consistently delivered on its promise of 100 percent uptime and uncompromising service. We are anticipating continued significant growth and are relying on Q9 to play a vital role in our ongoing success."

Osama Arafat, CEO of Q9 Networks, pointed out that the majority of Kaboose?s traffic growth was coming from the United States. ?Kaboose has grown in a very short time to be a dominant player in this market. The fact that 90 percent of the Kaboose audience comes from outside Canada makes their success that much more impressive. We're delighted to be extending and expanding our relationship with Kaboose and look forward to meeting their infrastructure needs well into the future."

Q9 Networks is a Canadian based provider of managed hosting services with offices in Calgary and Toronto. The company provides Kaboose with several managed services solutions, including servers, bandwidth, load balancers and back-up.