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20

Dedicated Servers Holidays Special by Vexxhost Web Hosting

Posted By: Stephen Seymore on December 20, 2008 at 2:55 pm

VEXXHOST Web Hosting announced an unprecedented special offer on one of its popular dedicated web hosting plans.  This holiday special that offers top-end server hardware on a premium network is priced at only $149.99 per month with no setup fees, these servers were originally priced at $300.00 per month with $99.00 setup fee.

These dedicated servers come with Quad-Core Intel Xeon 2.67Ghz CPUs, include 2GB of RAM that can be expanded up to 8GB and one hot-swappable 500GB SATA HDD with 3 extra hot-swap bays and the ability to use software or hardware RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5 & RAID 10.  1500 GB of data transfer per month on their premium fully redundant network is included plus a free remote reboot port that allows you to restart servers within seconds without the need to contact anyone at their NOC, value of $30 per month.

These dedicated servers are all located in their tier-1 premium facility in downtown Montreal; they operate their own private datacenter space.   The datacenter is known for its top security, air-conditioning and redundant electric power backed up by a big array of UPS’s and generators.  This added to their premium networked backed up by the internet’s top provider such as SAVVIS (Public, NASDAQ:SVVS), Cogent (Public, NASDAQ:CCOI), NLayer and Teleglobe.

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Dec

09

Web Hosting Provider “The Planet” Launches Virtual Rack

Posted By: Mary Smith on December 9, 2008 at 12:20 pm

Web hosting provider, The Planet, one of the global provider in IT web hosting, announced its new Virtual Rack Solution Bundles, this is a pre-configured solutions for web hosting with two and more servers. Virtual Rack is available in three kinds of packages, these bundles are featured to meet various hosting requirements, and it starts from basic till advanced hosting. This Virtual Rack solution is good for clients who need a flexible, scalable infrastructure to contain rapid growth.

The bundles are available in three types which make purchasing process very simple:

  • The Performance Bundle is The Planet’s highest robust solution. It added to the Advanced and Essential Bundle an additional quad-core Web server for a total of three servers, they are fully managed with dedicated Cisco ASA 5510SP firewall, also a wide array of managed services, like backup, security and server monitoring.
  • The Advanced Bundle has all the features of the Essential package, and a RAID 1 database server with 15,000RPM SAS drives to make database access very fast. This also includes superior load balancing, with three times the capacity and speed of the Essential Bundle.
  • The Essential Bundle has two Intel quad-core servers with load balancing. This system is ideal for mission-critical applications.

Bryce Edwards, The Planet’s general manager for complex infrastructure said “Many SMBs require the ability to grow their hosted environments quickly and easily, yet aren’t sure where to start,” he also added “With our new Virtual Rack Solution Bundles, we’ve prepackaged three of our most popular virtual rack configurations, making it an easy choice to meet particular business requirements. All of our bundles feature drive-level redundancy, 1Gbps connection speed and bandwidth pooling, and customers receive additional value by taking advantage of low introductory pricing.”

There is also an offer from The Planet that ends on Dec. 31; they are the Virtual Rack Solution Bundles with unbeatable prices. The Advanced Bundle is priced now for $1,329.60 per month, this is a 20% savings. The Performance Bundle is priced at $2,048.85 per month; it is discounted for more than 25%. The Essential Bundle now has a price of $801.55 per month, normally the price is $943 per month.

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Nov

09

The Planet Web Hosting Provider Offers Virtual and Private Rack Promotions

Posted By: Donald Weaver on November 9, 2008 at 5:53 pm

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.

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Jul

18

Dedicated hosting provider “The Planet”, added a new server to its “Ready To Go Solutions”

Posted By: Tammi Parker on July 18, 2008 at 10:35 am

The Planet dedicated servers web hosting provider a privately held dedicated hosting company, now offering a new addition to its line of ‘Ready To Go Servers”, the new server has Xeon 3210-SAS, equipped with a 146GB hard drive and 2GB RAM.

These servers are available in one hour as one of Planet Alpha’s Ready To Go Servers, it is also including the new version of CentOS-5 operating system on all Ready To Go Servers with no additional charges. Also, customers now can have the option to operate the servers with or without the cPanel-brand control panel.

”Our rapid server-provisioning time is one of the chief reasons people choose The Planet for their hosting solutions. The combination of our vast inventory and automated provisioning system allows us to make servers available in just one hour. By expanding our line of popular Ready To Go Servers, our customers have even more options when they require a high-performance box that must be up-and-running quickly.” said Urvish Vashi, Director of Product Management.

The Planet endeavors to provide high level of network and speed for peak performance, instant scalability to handle large spikes of traffic, redundant, parallel, multi-tiered network routing and switching architecture for maximum stability and reliability also multiple layer network security protecting from (DDOS) attacks that harm.

The Planet dedicated server provider are the leaders of On Demand IT Infrastructure solutions, they are hosting more than 22,000 businesses and 6.7 million web site, they are using the best hardware, software tools and technical support with state-of-the-art data centers and networks.

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Jul

13

Dedicated & Managed web hosting provider The Planet introduces new websites & brands

Posted By: Ellen Tate on July 13, 2008 at 2:12 pm

The Planet dedicated web hosting provider which is one of the largest privately held dedicated & managed web hosting providers have introduced their new website alongside with 2 new brands which are “Planet Alpha” & “Planet Northstar”, their corporate “The Planet” name remains used for the main corporate brand.  Their “Planet Alpha” brand holds their dedicated servers line and “Planet Northstar” holds their managed hosting which were both previously held by the main “The Planet” brand.

“Planet Alpha”, a brand of “The Planet” is now holding all their dedicated services; they still have the same old configurations which are either single CPU, single or dual core & dual CPU, dual or quad cores.  Their prices have remained the same and still remain to be the best price value for their premium datacenter and bandwidth.  They are currently offering big discounts on their current dedicated server line with the launch of their new website which makes them one of the very reasonable options for premium hosting.  For the more complex applications requiring clusters or managed web hosting, The Planet has introduced the “Planet Northstar” brand.

The Planet remains one of the top privately held premium internet service providers, operating their own private 155,000 square feet datacenter at the moment with another 12,000 square feet ready for expansion. They are considered one of the top-end premium providers with N+1 power generators, N+2 redundant HVAC systems and connecting to tier-1 network providers such as AT&T (NYSE:T), AboveNet, NTT (NYSE:NTT), Savvis (NASDAQ:SVVS), Global Crossing (NASDAQ:GLBC), Level 3 (NASDAQ:LVLT), Time Warner Telecom (NASDAQ:TWTC).

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