The Planet Announces Dedicated Backup Price Promotion

HOUSTON -- The Planet, the world’s largest privately held dedicated hosting company, today announced a new Dedicated Backup Server pricing promotion on servers equipped with R1Soft’s full-featured CDPServer continuous data protection software.  Through Jan. 14, 2008, customers can take advantage of its popular backup options, now priced as low $.23 per gigabyte.  With this offer, customers can backup an unlimited number of clients and select from three storage options -- 500 GB, 1TB or 1.5TB.  The promotion begins today at 10:00 a.m. CST.

The feature-rich backup solution offers a perfect fit for small to large businesses with mission-critical, intense data storage needs.  With unique delegated administration functionality provided on The Planet’s Dedicated Backup Servers, the new R1Soft solution is also ideal for resellers looking to provide backup to their customers in a cost-effective, self-service model.  With these dedicated backup solutions, customers will appreciate the fact that there is no limit to the number of clients backed up for any of the three offerings. 

“Our customers know that backup is vital, but often can’t afford a full-featured, enterprise-class solution,” said The Planet’s Director of Product Management Urvish Vashi.  “With our unique dedicated backup storage, we’re offering rich capabilities for secure backup on a dedicated device that’s already preconfigured and ready for immediate use.  At prices as low as $.023 per gigabyte per month, there’s no reason for customers not to start today.”

The Planet’s Dedicated Backup Server delivers bare-metal recovery that allows customers to recover servers to their original known state.  CDP provides a near-continuous snapshot of customer data, with the ability to rollback to the last data snapshot to minimize loss. 

Available in three configurations, The Planet’s Dedicated Backup Server provides the optimal price performance mix for a wide range of backup requirements:

·         500MB Dedicated Backup Server:  Priced at $227/month – a reduction of almost 20 percent, down from $279 -- this server provides 3 – 250GB hard drives, RAID5, 1.5 TB of bandwidth and R1Soft CDPServer Backup Software with unlimited licenses

·         1TB Dedicated Backup Server:  With a 27 percent savings – priced temporarily at $277/month – customers have 3 – 500GB hard drives, RAID5, 2.5 TB of bandwidth, and R1Soft CDPServer Backup Software with unlimited licenses

·         1.5TB Dedicated Backup Server:  With promotion pricing at $347/month – reduced by 34 percent from $479/month – this option provides 3 – 750GB hard drives, RAID5, 4 TB of bandwidth, R1Soft CDPServer Backup Software with unlimited licenses

To view the entire link or for more information, visit The Planet’s Web site or click here:  http://www.theplanet.com/dedicated-servers/dedicated-back-up-servers.asp

The Planet is the leading provider of On Demand IT Infrastructure solutions, hosting more than 22,000 small- and medium-size businesses and 3.1 million Web sites worldwide.  By offering the best choice of servers, software tools and world-class support, backed by state-of-the-art facilities and unmatched network connectivity, The Planet helps turn information technology into a powerful competitive advantage that enables customers to successfully grow their businesses.  

For additional information, visit http://www.theplanet.com/.