Author: Donald Weaver

The Planet web hosting provider has good offers on virtual and private racks; this was announced on November 2nd. The Planet, with its slogan “the global leader in IT hosting”, has now new three offers that will enable clients to upgrade their hosting plans.

The Planet’s clients now can add servers to their virtual or private racks at a big discount of up to 50% for the first two months. This discount is not applies on all of The Planet’s plans, Only certain plans including the Core2 Duo 4500, the Dual Xeon 5405and the Xeon 3040 has this discount. New private rack clients with more than three servers will receive even a big a 70 % discount on “shelf” prices. Moreover, The Planet has offers for about 50% discount on RAID cards for virtual and private rack clients. These discounts will stay until November 30, 2008, or “while supplies last”.

General Manager of the The Planet, Bryce Edwards explained “Ecommerce continues to grow, requiring businesses to have a strong online presence for complex infrastructure solutions,” he also added “The Planet’s private and virtual racks help businesses accommodate increased demands on IT infrastructure, with the benefits of unlimited server-to-server transfer, pooled bandwidth and advanced security technologies. With these promotions, our customers can prepare for growth during the holidays and beyond, while keeping capital expenditures to a minimum.”

The Planet web hosting is the place of more than 25,000 small and medium-size businesses by hosting about 13.3 million sites globally. The Planet’s Planet Alpha plans also offer self-managed dedicated servers while its plans “Planet Northstar” which are a managed hosting plans offers a fully managed web hosting plans.

Online web hosting service provider VEXXHOST introduced a new free site builder for all their current and future clients. Their new site builder features over 470 templates and over 20 flash templates for any type of website, with a promise to deliver 15 extra web site templates per month and it also includes a collection of around 3000 images that can be used on the website or the choice of uploading your own pictures. The site builder also has extras component features like photo album, Form-Mail, online counter, page effect, guest book and much more. This site builder also fully integrated to cPanel which makes it very easy to manage by customers. It also supports PHP, JavaScript and Applet.

VEXXHOST has set up a demo of their site builder at http://sitebuilder.vexxhost.net/, anyone can create an account and try out the free site builder and buy a web hosting plan directly with the website they built.

VEXXHOST web hosting is a company that provides web hosting and domain registration services based in Montreal, Canada. They are located in their own privately managed datacenter in downtown Montreal and operate their own private multi-homed network which makes it one of the best locations for web site hosting in North America. VEXXHOST offers a wide array of services from shared to reseller to virtual & dedicated hosting, they also register domain names. To visit VEXXHOST website go to http://vexxhost.com

Digital Realty Trust, Inc., an owner and manager of corporate and Internet gateway data-centers, announced that Hosted Solutions will establish a mission critical data-center in Digital Realty Trust’s 125 North Myers Street facility in Charlotte, North Carolina. The company states that the site encompasses over 15,000 square feet of space, including over 7,500 square foot of raised floor Turn-Key Data-center™ space, with adjoining shell space for expansion. This will significantly increase Hosted Solutions’ data center capabilities to meet demand for its managed services from customers in Charlotte, upstate South Carolina and nationwide.

“We are very excited to announce the opening of our second Charlotte datacenter,” said Rich Lee, Founder and CEO of Hosted Solutions. “The opening of this datacenter is a testament to Hosted Solutions’ commitment to grow strategically in our current markets while giving our customers the personal relationship of a small company and the resources of an enterprise organization. Digital Realty Trust’s state-of-the-art facility is the ideal environment to support our customer’s needs, and it has been a valued partner in the process of establishing this new datacenter.”

“Hosted Solutions was seeking a premiere facility with advanced security, cooling and power systems, and our facilities in Charlotte fit all of the company’s technical requirements. The facility is a major hub for communications infrastructure in the Southeast, making it an ideal environment for managed services companies like Hosted Solutions that want a wide range of connectivity options,” said Chris Crosby, Senior Vice President of Digital Realty Trust.