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.

“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).