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The Planet Offers Attractive Discount for Resellers

On February 24, 2009, global IT hosting leader The Planet, announced that it would be running a promotion to help its resellers increase their revenues.  From the 24^th of February through March 31, resellers who buy five or more servers will get discounts of up to 68% per server.  Customers can then use the bulk servers to deliver upgrades to their busier clients who require dedicated server platforms.  These additional severs can also serve as an extended infrastructure for resellers who want to provide value-added or shared offerings such as applications and custom services.

Urvish Vashin, dedicated hosting General Manager for The Planet, says the provider is more than happy to give its loyal customers such a tremendous account.  Vashin notes that web hosting is a highly competitive market and this special promotion will give The Planet’s customers a wide variety of options with an excellent value for their money.  With the bulk discount offerings, resellers have the benefit of upgrading their customers to a dedicated environment in a cost effective manner.

The recent promotion allows resellers to take of advantage of significant discounts on the purchase of five or more high performance servers.  The hardware options include the Celeron 2.0+, the Dual Xeon 2.4, Dual Xeon 2.8 and Dual Xeon 3.2, the Pentium 4.2.4+ and the Xeon 5130.

Discounts on The Planet’s bulk servers are structured as follows:

The price on five to nine servers ranges from $69 to $119 a month per server

The price on 10 to 19 servers are greatly reduced, ranging from $59 to $109 a month per server.

The price on 20 or more servers is the best deal, dropping from $49 to $99 a month per server.

According to The Planet, resellers also have the option of enjoying additional savings by leveraging the provider’s Unmetered Servers promotion, a special offer that was recently announced.  For a limited time, The Planet is giving away its popular unmetered bandwidth solutions for no cost on reduced priced servers.  The packages are regularly priced at $200 for 10 Mbps and $1,800 for 100 Mbps of bandwidth each month.  This is how the deal works – the Dual Xeon 3.2, which is regularly priced at $299, can now be purchased at the discounted price of just $144 per month and comes bundled with 10 Mbps of unmetered bandwidth.   The same server with 100 Mbps of unmetered bandwidth is only $544 a month.  The Planet is expecting its customers to take of advantage while these amazing offers last.

About The Planet

The Planet is a worldwide leading provider of on-demand IT solutions, currently servicing well over 20,000 businesses and 15 million websites.  This company gives its customers a wide variety of options to choose from with dedicated servers in Planet Alpha and managed hosting with Planet Northstar.  The Planet utilizes world-class data centers, the best in server hardware and software tools.  Its enterprise-class network infrastructure allows customers to enjoy that competitive edge needed to succeed in today’s business environment.

The Planet Introduces New Cloud Storage Service

A global leader in dedicated and managed hosting solutions, The Planet is enhancing its infrastructure in the terms of storage performance with cloud storage functionality.  This new service offers an on-demand, highly scalable solution that will ensure the stability large enterprises need to flourish in today’s business environment.

Last week, The Planet announced that the new cloud storage service will be limited in availability to its existing hosting clients.  Rob Walters, General Manager of The Planet’s storage and data protection division, says the service offers a world of new opportunities as customers can extend their hosted environments right into the cloud storage facility.  The cloud storage platform is geographically distributed, providing customers with the ability to upload to the local network node along with a single policy enforced account to administer all of their file-based storage requirements.  The Planet’s cloud storage solution is based on a 40 cents per GB pricing scale and doesn’t come with any hidden fees or performance issues.  Most cloud storage providers charge fees for sundry access services.  Amazon Web Service’s Simple Storage Solution is one example that charges around 1 cent per 1,000 put, post, copy or list requests.   According to Walters, the new cloud storage service is a first in the hosting industry.

The Planet’s announcement of its high performance solution is great news for customers as past services haven’t been cheap to utilize.  On the surface, cloud storage generally seems to be a more affordable approach for addressing the storage issues faced by so many companies today.  However, unexpected fees usually rear their ugly heads, hidden charges associated with bandwidth and additional costs for accessing data.   These fees typically result in costumers paying far more than initially anticipated.  With the cloud storage solution offered by The Planet, customers are charged a fixed rate and know exactly what they are paying for.

Another advantage of The Planet’s cloud storage service is that it makes up the only geographically distributed storage solution of its kind.  Leveraging its state of the art Dallas-based  data facility and solid partnership with Nirvanix, The Planet is able to take advantage of the Storage Delivery Network and allow customers to choose exactly where they want to store data on the cloud.  There are no limitations as data can be placed on any node in both networks.

In a recent statement, Patrick Harr, Nirvanix Chief Executive Officer, commends The Planet on its extension of the Storage Delivery Network.  By providing more flexibility, The Planet is essentially giving its customers the best of both worlds, resulting in a win-win situation for all parties.  By utilizing Nirvanix’s global cluster, customers have the freedom to access the local Dallas node or optimize storage from virtually anywhere in the world.  Coupling an attractive price with respectable service level agreements, the new cloud storage service provides clients with more options for creating and scaling next-generation web applications.

Although The Planet stands firm in its claim as the first to offer such a cost effective solution, the new service actually follows a cloud storage system launch initiated by Webair last month.  eLina, Tilana and Nirvanix also introduced similar services prior to The Planet’s recent launch.