Web Hosting Provider The Planet Announces the Launch of New Servers and Load Balancers
September 26, 2007 – (HOSTSEARCH.COM) – Web hosting provider The Planet (http://www.theplanet.com) has announced the launch of several new servers and load balancers, it was announced yesterday. The company has added mid-range, high-performance and Ready-To-Go servers to its product portfolio and improved its private rack offerings with the availability of Foundry’s new ServerIron Global Server Load Balancer products.
“Fast, flexible and reliable is always the name of the game when customers evaluate new technologies,” explained Director of Product Management at The Planet, Urvish Vashi. “Whether it’s absolute high-performance, a mid-range solution or products ready in just an hour, we’re working to provide solutions for the most exacting customers. With our size and scale, we complete the equation with SMB pricing.”
The company has added Dell 840 Kentsfield servers powered by a single quad-core multiprocessor system and equipped with Intel’s Xeon 3210 series processors, as well as Dell PowerEdge 2950 Dual Clovertown servers which provide high-performance Xeon 5335 processors. Dual Opteron 265 servers are now also part of The Planet’s Ready-To-Go server line and available with or without cPanel.
The Planet’s load balancing offerings offer the benefit of multi-geography redundancy. Offerings include Foundry 4G & 4G-SSL that support a broad range of IP- and Web-based applications for small-scale enterprise and e-commerce organizations. In addition, the Foundry Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) is available for users who “require load balancing and high availability across websites or server farms hosted in multiple data centers, directs customers to the location with the fastest response time”. In the event of a failure, GSLB transparently directs customers to the best alternate location for uninterrupted service.
The Planet provides on demand IT infrastructure solutions and hosting to around 22,000 small- and medium-size businesses, The company caters for some 2.8 million websites worldwide.
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