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The Planet Announces Server Blowout Sale
2008-10-22
HOUSTON, Oct. 22, 2008 ? The Planet, the global leader in IT hosting,
today announced a limited-time promotion that provides significant discounts on
more than 50 servers from its industry-leading portfolio. The Server Blowout
Sale, which begins today and ends Oct. 23, 2008, offers discounts of up to 25
percent on some of the company?s most popular name-brand servers.
?In today?s economy, companies of all sizes ? especially SMBs ? are looking to
cut costs and maximize their IT budgets,? said Urvish Vashi, The Planet?s
general manager for dedicated servers. ?The Planet?s size and scale allows us to
offer considerable discounts on some of the best servers in the industry. By
taking advantage of our server blowout, business owners can save literally
hundreds of dollars per year on hosted IT, money they can use toward other
business operations.?
With the offer, servers regularly priced at $200 or more are discounted 25
percent; servers typically priced below $200 are discounted 10 percent.
Customers receive substantial savings on some of The Planet?s most powerful
configurations, including Monster, RAID and virtual rack servers. For example,
the Dual Xeon 5130 RAID, featuring four SCSI/SAS hard drives with 146GB of space
each, is now $314 per month, reduced from $419. The Dual Xeon 5405 Monster,
packed with 10 hard drives and 8GB of RAM, is regularly priced at $1,199 per
month and drops to $899.
The company?s virtual racks are also included in the Server Blowout Sale,
offering customers the benefits of pooled bandwidth, unlimited server-to-server
data transfer and advanced security solutions in a multiserver environment.
For more information, please visit the Web site at
www.planetalpha.com/server-specials/.
About The Planet
The Planet is the leading provider of On Demand IT Infrastructure solutions,
hosting more than 25,000 small- and medium-size businesses and 13.3 million Web
sites worldwide. The Planet Alpha division provides the widest array of
self-managed dedicated servers and advanced services backed by 24x7x365 support.
The Planet Northstar Managed Hosting division combines a proactive methodology
and seasoned IT experts to deliver a fully managed hosting solution. With the
best choice of servers, software tools and world-class support, backed by
state-of-the-art facilities and an enterprise-class network, The Planet turns IT
into a powerful competitive advantage that enables customers to grow their
businesses. For additional information, visit
http://www.theplanet.com.
For information contact:
Yvonne Donaldson, The Planet
Director, Public Relations
Phone: (281) 714-3602
ydonaldson@theplanet.com
Catherine Leahy
Global Fluency
Phone: (650) 433-4150
cleahy@globalfluency.com
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