Nov 21, 2008 : Hosting Sales and Promos Roundup

📅 November 21, 2008 - This week's hosting sales and promotions have already begun capitalizing on the upcoming holiday season, steering away from the doom and gloom of last week's economic crisis-driven deals, but rather appealing to budgets constrained by the price of putting presents under the tree.


Discount hosting customers are promised a number of deals. Purohits.com has lowered its domain prices for its "Big Holiday Sale" and FastDomain is offering significantly discounted hosting at $3.95 per month. At least one hosting provider, Globat.com, has vowed to give its hard working web hosting affiliates Christmas bonuses.

Other special presents include Host Department's pre-launch of its UNIX Premium Shared Hosting offering and the immediate availability of The Planet's new, high-performance Xeon server.

The Planet Offers Xeon 5405 Server IT hosting giant The Planet (theplanet.com 👉 Total Reviews: 3
🙌 Average Rating: 1 / 10
👍 Good Reviews: 0
👎 Bad Reviews: 3
👈 Official Responses: 0 -> softlayer.com -> ibm.com) has added the Xeon 5405 to its Planet Alpha line of high-performance dedicated servers, featuring up to 32GB of RAM and storage capacity able to support up to six storage drives. Available in both SATA and SAS configurations, the Xeon 5405 is one of Planet Alpha's top single-processor servers.

Last week, The Planet announced its November server sale which offered lower prices on select Planet Alpha servers, cutting prices by more than 50 percent on certain models including Dual Xeon servers. Additionally, The Planet also discounted its data protection servers, secure backup appliances featuring CDPServer software from R1Soft (r1soft.com) and the options to choose between doubling hard drive space, RAM or bandwidth for free on select servers.

Host Department Pre-launches UNIX Premium Shared Hosting

As part of its premium line of hosting solutions starting at $10.95 per month, Web hosting and domain name registrar Host Department (hostdepartment.com 👉 Total Reviews: 78
🙌 Average Rating: 5 / 10
👍 Good Reviews: 40
👎 Bad Reviews: 38
👈 Official Responses: 0) has announced it will launch a new plan called UNIX Premium Hosting, offering shared hosting with better features, higher reliability, and prompter support.

Host Department offers three Unix Premium Hosting packages: "Advance," "Professional," and "E-Commerce." All offer MySQL 5.0, Perl 5, PHP 5, CGI, Ruby on Rails, a dedicated SSL module, and dedicated e-commerce setup. It will also use a new server from IBM's xSeries Hardware blade-server line, hosted in Host Department's Interserver, New Jersey data center.

Globat.com Gives Web Hosting Affiliates Holiday Bonus

Los Angeles-based web hosting provider Globat.com (globat.com 👉 Total Reviews: 34
🙌 Average Rating: 3.1 / 10
👍 Good Reviews: 8
👎 Bad Reviews: 26
👈 Official Responses: 0) has announced a new bonus program for its affiliates. Until the end of November, its Web hosting affiliates will be able to earn a special cash bonus on top of their commission earnings, granting a bonus to members who have recorded at least five sales. Higher performing affiliates could earn a bonus of up to $500.

"With the holiday season around the corner and the economy in a slump, we decided that our affiliates deserved a special holiday bonus for their continuing support and hard work," Globat.com president Chris Ueland said in a statement.

FastDomain Offers 45 Percent Off Web Hosting

Competitive pressure has led FastDomain (hosting.fastdomain.com) to reduce its monthly hosting cost to $3.95 a discount of roughly 45 percent off its normal monthly Web hosting service. The end date of FastDomain's promotion has not been announced. FastDomains sees the promotion as a way to further strengthen its quickly growing client base, which has grown to thousands of businesses and personal websites since its debut in 2005.

Purohits.com Slashes Domain Prices For Its "Big Holiday Sale"

Purohits.com (domains.purohits.com) has cut domain name registration, renewals and transfer prices for .com, .net, .org, .info, and .biz top-level domains to $8.99 per year. Now offering some of the lowest price in the industry, Purohits is also offering an additional promotion for .ASIA domains, priced at $8.49 per year, ending December 12. Purohits also provides PrivacyProtect for free with every domain purchased as well as many competitively priced value-added services such as web and email hosting, digital certificates, website design services, domain forwarding, mail forwarding and managed DNS.

FatCow Rolls Out the Welcome Wagon for New Customers Web hosting services provider FatCow (fatcow.com 👉 Total Reviews: 60
🙌 Average Rating: 2.7 / 10
👍 Good Reviews: 11
👎 Bad Reviews: 49
👈 Official Responses: 2) expanding its hosting offerings to include unlimited disk space, unlimited monthly bandwidth, and a new customer orientation solution, the FatCow QuickStart Wizard, to appeal to individuals and small businesses new to web hosting. The QuickStart Wizard is a mini-suite of control panel tools walks FatCow customers through the basic steps of starting a hosting account in a matter of minutes.

Following its "one plan one price" philosophy, FatCow's new, signature plan also offers all new customers unlimited e-mail accounts, point-and-click site-creation tools, easy-to-install blogs and forums, e-commerce capabilities and search engine advertising credits.

Free Reseller web hosting from Daily.co.uk

Domain name and web hosting provider Daily.co.uk (daily.co.uk) is giving away a year's free Reseller Web Hosting. According to the UK-based company, its Reseller v2 Starter account will be free of charge for a full year for all customers who sign on before December 31, 2008. Normally £199.90 for the year, the account includes hosting accounts and "Instant Website" accounts to resell, plus extras including search engine optimization tools and SSL certificates, which can also be resold.

In addition, Daily.co.uk's free reseller hosting account has no minimum contract length or charge for cancellation, and includes a white label control panel and built-in ticket system to automate customer communication.