Jan 9, 2009 : Sales and Promos Roundup

📅 January 9, 2009 - The first full week of 2009 promised many new web hosting sales and promotions, and - not unlike New Year's resolutions - they have been both ambitious and will perhaps be short-lived.

One of the most interesting was Host Color's free domain offer to coincide with Elvis Presley's birthday. While fun and intriguing, Host Color and other hosts have also offered less gimmicky promotions including 34SP.com offering VPS plans starting at 10 cents per month and The Planet's server migration promotion that offers a free month of service and free migration for customers who switch.



34SP.com Offers Virtual Private Servers for a Dime

UK virtual private server provider 34SP.com (34sp.com 👉 Total Reviews: 2
🙌 Average Rating: 9 / 10
👍 Good Reviews: 2
👎 Bad Reviews: 0
👈 Official Responses: 0) launched a new promotion for new VPS clients this week to ease the transition from shared hosting or a dedicated server to VPS hosting by offering the first month of any VPS hosting account for just 10 cents and free setup on all VPS accounts.



Host Color Gives Free .US Domain On King's B-Day

Web hosting provider Host Color (hostcolor.com 👉 Total Reviews: 31
🙌 Average Rating: 9.4 / 10
👍 Good Reviews: 30
👎 Bad Reviews: 1
👈 Official Responses: 2) will celebrate the birthday of American Rock and Roll legend Elvis Presley on January 8 by offering a free .US domain and a 10 percent instant rebate on all web hosting plans. The unusual promotion stems from Host Color managing director Alexander Avramov's and other employees' love of Presley's classically American music. "To be honest we have to tell you that Host Color is a Rock & Roll addicted hosting company," he said in a statement.



Host Color Celebrates 2009 with Instant Web Hosting Rebate



While the rock-inspired promotion has ended, Host Color also announced this week that its instant web hosting rebate, which offers 25 percent off all shared, virtual and dedicated server hosting, has been extended until January 10. The discount includes its powerful Virtuozzo VPS Hosting services, which features a VPS package with 1,024 MB of RAM, 50 GB of disc space and 350 GB of monthly bandwidth for only $52.46 per month.

Host Color has upgraded its VPS plans to Virtuozzo Containers 4.0, the latest version, and has recently made Plesk 9.0 web hosting control panel available to all VPS hosting customers.



R1Soft Congratulates Winner of Its 42-inch Plasma TV

Data center software developer R1Soft (r1soft.com) has announced Colorado hosting firm Springs Hosting (springshosting.com 👉 Total Reviews: 16
🙌 Average Rating: 10 / 10
👍 Good Reviews: 16
👎 Bad Reviews: 0
👈 Official Responses: 0) the winner of its year-end draw for a 42-inch plasma television. Springs Hosting provides premium website and email hosting, dedicated servers, colocation, and data center services using Cisco routing equipment.

According to Springs Hosting chief executive officer Don Brown, the plasma TV is in the conference room, where it is being for "playing hours and hours of Rock Band 2 on the Xbox," he said in a statement.



OpenSRS Discounts Several ccTLDs

OpenSRS (opensrs.com 👉 Total Reviews: 6
🙌 Average Rating: 1 / 10
👍 Good Reviews: 0
👎 Bad Reviews: 6
👈 Official Responses: 0), the wholesale reseller services group of Tucows, has announced price reductions for domain customers worldwide, dropping the price of .CN (China) domains to $15/domain year, and both .CH (Switzerland) and .LI (Liechtenstein) domains to $20 per year each.



The Planet Launches New Year's Migration Promotion



Early this week, hosting provider The Planet (theplanet.com 👉 Total Reviews: 3
🙌 Average Rating: 1 / 10
👍 Good Reviews: 0
👎 Bad Reviews: 3
👈 Official Responses: 0 -> softlayer.com -> ibm.com) began an aggressive campaign to attract dedicated server customers on the verge of switching hosting providers, offering customers who switch to The Planet a free month of service and free migration assistance from IT staff including one hour of consultation for each new server purchased.