The Planet Brings Enterprise-Level Load Balancing to Small Business Market

Dallas, TX - January 11, 2005 - (HostReview) - The Planet recently announced it now offers affordable, enterprise-level load balancing to the entirety of its customer base through a partnership with Zeus Technology.

The Zeus load-balancing solution is designed to improve the performance, reliability and scalability of customer networks through a combination of traffic management protocols, service level monitoring, SSL decryption and re-encryption, bandwidth management and other features.

"We're thrilled to bring advanced load balancing to all of our customers, small business and otherwise," said Sam Fleitman, Vice President of Managed Services at The Planet. He stated that package prices begin at just $49 per month for load balancing of three services and two nodes. Additional nodes and services can be added for a nominal fee. "This very affordable solution in turn allows our customers to provide highly available services at market-leading prices."

The Planet selected the Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager (ZXTM) load balancing solution, Mr. Fleitman added, because the product offers a variety of features that could be extended directly to The Planet's customers through its proprietary ORBIT™ portal. "With user-level access to load balancing functions through ORBIT, customers can load balance any server in our datacenter and manage settings in real-time," Mr. Fleitman said. "This level of control is truly unprecedented at this price point."

Steve Palmer, Vice President of Marketing at Zeus Technology, commented, "Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager is the next generation in application traffic management and load balancing. With ZXTM, The Planet can offer its customers a single solution that combines traffic management with advanced security and optimization capabilities."

ABOUT ZEUS TECHNOLOGY
Zeus Technology is the leader in the development of application traffic management solutions for the Internet. Through a successful combination of support and consultancy services and products that lead the industry in performance, scalability, reliability and security, Zeus provides application infrastructure solutions to over 800 customers, powering over one million sites across the world. For additional information, visit www.zeus.com.

ABOUT THE PLANET
Launched in 1994 and based in Dallas, The Planet provides a world of Internet and hosting services and solutions. As one of the fastest growing managed hosting providers in the United States, the company serves small businesses and enterprise clients with value-added services such as advanced server monitoring, database administration, managed data storage, virtual private networks and more. For additional information, visit www.theplanet.com.