Author: James Stickles

Greatresponder.com – 2010-08-02 – The Planet, the global web hosting leader, announced that SiteGround web hosting, one of its largest reseller partners has selected the company’s Server Cloud as the new standard for its cloud offering. According to SiteGround web hosting provider, The Planet Server Cloud uses the best virtualization technology on the market to deliver a service with outstanding reliability, redundancy and flexibility, which is suitable for business websites of all sizes.

“Server Cloud was expressly designed for our existing customers, with a platform that’s purpose-built for web-based businesses,” said Carl Meadows, senior product manager for Cloud Services with The Planet. “For resellers like SiteGround, their customers operate websites that depend on platform stability. They’ve got to be up and running around the clock, providing the performance guarantees that keep their customers coming back.”

“We were early beta participants in The Planet’s Server Cloud testing, which provided us with opportunities to offer feedback on the platform,” said Tenko Nikolov, CEO of SiteGround.  “Our customers rely on us to provide them with the best options to support their businesses, so we’ve thoroughly evaluated cloud options on the market. We were looking for pricing predictability and ample bandwidth allocations, in a no-surprises package for our customers. The Planet Server Cloud behaves like a dedicated server by guaranteeing our fair share of space, traffic and CPU, at a cheaper cost.  It’s great for small and big sites that want to cut costs while at the same time get a reliable service.”

About The Planet Server Cloud

The Planet Server Cloud provides a broad range of features for customers looking to expand their hosting profile:

Sun SAN Backend: The Planet Server Cloud is powered by a high-performance, high-availability Sun Storage Area Network (SAN). Many cloud solutions operate on local disks from the host server, leaving customers vulnerable to hardware failures that can result in down time and even data loss. Server Cloud is always available, since computing and storage resources are separate and independent. In the event of a complete host server failure, data is always protected.

Operating System Support: Customers can select operating system support from both Linux and Windows platforms, including Windows Server 2008 R2.

Next-Generation Virtualization: The Planet built its Server Cloud on the Linux Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) Hypervisor, the primary platform supported by both The Linux Foundation and the top Linux distributions, including Canonical’s Ubuntu and Red Hat. KVM supports the latest virtualization technologies, including live migration, RAM de-duplication, para-virtualized storage and network capabilities, which combine stellar performance and efficiency. While other offerings require operating system (OS) modifications, KVM does not. Customers run unaltered/native versions of their chosen OS without any requirement for development modifications. As a result, they benefit from better security since new patches and updates are immediately available without the requirement for load development intervention.

Dedicated Resources: All resources for The Planet Server Cloud are 100% guaranteed. Customers receive completely dedicated CPU, RAM, storage and network capacity, which ensures performance isn’t negatively affected by another customer’s usage.

Enterprise-Grade Infrastructure: The Planet Server Cloud is powered by the latest technologies. From the Sun Microsystems SAN, to network gear supplied by Juniper and Cisco, and Dell servers equipped with Intel’s fast Nehalem processors, the company has developed this robust platform to be resilient under the most difficult loads.

Seamless, Rapid CPU, RAM Upgrades: Customers buy only what they require to get started and grow their performance seamlessly as demand expands. A single system reboot from the server host recognizes any added resources.

Managed Services: The Planet offers a full array of service upgrades, including managed server monitoring and remediation, server security management and managed backup.

About The Planet

The Planet is the leading provider of On Demand IT Infrastructure solutions, hosting more than 18,000 small- and medium-size businesses and 12 million Web sites worldwide. Customers have the power to choose from the broadest range of hosting solutions in the industry, from dedicated servers, Managed Dedicated Servers, Managed Hosting and data center colocation, all backed by 24x7x365 support. With the best choice of servers, software tools and world-class service, backed by state-of-the-art data centers and an enterprise-class network, The Planet turns IT into a powerful competitive advantage that enables customers to grow their businesses.

About SiteGround Web Hosting

SiteGround.com is a leading provider of web hosting services that hosts more than 250,000 domains worldwide. The company offers shared hosting, business hosting, reseller hosting, managed dedicated hosting solutions and cloud hosting. SiteGround offers a powerful system infrastructure and superior 24/7 technical support that guarantee reliability, uptime and quality of service. For more information about SiteGround

Dedicated Server Web Hosting Provider, “The Planet”, a privately held dedicated web hosting company has announced its records for the quarter which ended in June 30, 2008, this report update to customers, business partners and prospects has information relative to new progress and initiatives.

The second quarter highlights:

Touch Support Acquisition: The Company acquired Indiana-based Touch Support, as a way of introducing a fresh portfolio of advanced services for its self-managed dedicated server customers who are with the Planet Alpha brand. Those customers can select now from either a bundled or modular suite of services, like monitoring, server administration and security. Other services will be added during the balance of the year.

High Customer Activity: The Planet added more than 1,700 customers in the second quarter. The biggest growth in the second quarter came from its current customers, as they continued to expand their servers.

Expansion of Dallas Data Center: The Company began construction on an extension of 12,000 square feet in Dallas D6 data center, bringing the total data center area to 167,000 square feet.

New Virtual Racks: The Planet added new virtual racks for clients who need advanced solutions that offer a smaller footprint and also cost-effective with as few as two servers.

Data Center Award: Vice President of Facilities Jeff Lowenberg awarded by TechTarget’s SearchDataCenter.com by its prestigious data center Manager of the Year award. He was recognized for his hard work that can save the company more than $1 million on energy costs in 2008 alone.

Executive Appointment: The Planet appointed Robert Walters to manage its newly established storage and backup business unit, his responsibilities is to start new strategy and developing new products to extend the company profile.

Headquarters Award: The Planet won the Landmark 08 award for Best Corporate Headquarters Relocation by the Houston Business Journal.

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Douglas J. Erwin noted, ”We had another significant quarter of annualized double-digit growth, accented by continued operational improvements, and again exceeding our plan. From our product portfolio, private racks continue to accelerate and contribute significantly to our revenue growth. Concurrently, our largest customers continue to grow with us at double the company’s overall growth rate, which underscores their satisfaction with the depth of our products, services and support. This quarter we made our first acquisition, with the purchase of Indiana-based Touch Support. We have already begun incorporating these services, which provide additional capabilities for our dedicated server customers. We will continue to build-out our infrastructure and services, providing customers with the power to choose precisely what they require from the broadest range of products and services in the industry.

For the national holiday Host Color web hosting company will add a free domain to its all shared web hosting plans. Every customer who signs-up for a hosting account with the host between 4th and 11th of July will get a free domain name with Independence Day .US extension. Also with this promotion Host Color also launches a special coupon code “USA” which gives 20% discount for shared hosting services.

Alexander Avramov, Marketing Director for Host Color said “Fourth of July is all about the feeling of a great community and sharing, that’s why we invite all Americans to join our successful community of website owners and to celebrate online with us”.

Host Color also added some other useful software applications to its PowerTools, the company’s branded auto-installer software. Web host‘s customers can deploy with one click in their web hosting control panels PHP Fusion CMS, Simple Machines Forum and Moodle CMS.

About Host Color:
Host Color LLC is a United State web hosting provider incorporated in Delaware. Host Color powers thousands of personal websites and small business in data centers in South Bend, Indiana, US and Amsterdam, The Netherlands.