As of September 6th, 2007, we have been online for 8 months. During that time, it has been a labor of love adding web hosts, verifying reviews, and maintaining this site.

Near the end of April, we went through and discovered there was 8 web hosts that went out of business during this short time frame. I don’t think we had any idea how volatile web hosting really is on new startups.

As of today, May 6th, 2008, we have 561 web hosting reviews and 344 active web hosts indexed. This is way more than we expected for our first eight months. Thanks everyone who has submitted their reviews!

During this time, we also launched a sister site dedicated to virtual private server web hosts at VPS Host Reviews. Of course, we don’t expect nearly as many reviews there since VPS popularity is still warming up. However, we saw the need for a dedicated VPS review site, so we went ahead and launched it.

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The Planet privately held dedicated hosting company, has added an automated recovery solution, which is now available on all of its new and existing servers within the company’s extensive offerings.

The Automated Rescue Environment (ARE) allows customers to self-restore and repair their servers directly from The Planet customer portal in the event of a critical software failure.

Urvish Vashi, Director of Product Management with The Planet noted, ”The hosted IT infrastructure provides significant cost savings for customers compared with a do-it-yourself approach, an even more important factor in challenging financial markets. Many of our more technically proficient customers have asked for direct management capabilities, so for these companies we want to provide the option of unfettered access. As always, our skilled technical support team is available 24×7x365 for all of our customers.”

ARE enables customers with the option to self-manage their servers in the event of a system crash or failure. By rebooting from a safe zone on The Planet’s network, customers simply download a light OS, which provides the necessary tools to diagnose and recover data. The ARE:

• Allows customers to safely diagnose configuration errors without resorting to data losses associated with reloading the operating system
• Provides a significant self-service advantage so that customers can recover deleted files, replace corrupt files, manage and backup data, and remove harmful programs in a safe mode
• Adds additional value to The Planet’s hosted solution by providing the ability to self-restore and manage servers.

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Web hosting firm, HostMySite, has redesigned its website, with strong focus on managed dedicated servers and VPS hosting, the culmination of several months of internal and outside design and development work.

The new HostMySite website presents web hosting solutions to four key audience segments: personal website creators, professional developers and designers, small business website owners, and those needing enterprise scale hosting solutions. The site also builds on the strong markets that HostMySite has served in managed dedicated servers and VPS hosting. The managed dedicated sections of the website have been updated to present a complete online data center tour, vastly increased detail on the dedicated server offerings at HostMySite and tools for determining which dedicated server solutions best match a client’s needs.

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Are you in need of a premium reliable Windows dedicated server?

Lunarpages is providing the first 100 customers to purchase any Windows Dedicated Server plan for 12 or 24 months with a copy of WYSIWYG HTML and website editor, Microsoft Expression Web, and a one-year subscription to Expression Studio Training from Total Training, which provides instructions on how to use the editor and how to build a website using Windows products and services.

Also, by signing up with Lunarpages for 12 months, you’ll qualify for our $50 off dedicated server coupon promotion. Use coupon 50offded during your order and you’ll save $50 instantly.

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Lunarpages Supports SSH on Shared Hosting Plans

Lunarpages has started to support SSH/shell access on our shared hosting plans. New clients can specify if they want this as an addon when signing up and current clients can drop in an e-mail to support@lunarpages.com and we’ll get you hooked up. Because we know not everyone wants to be on a server that allows SSH access, we are putting SSH customers on separate servers, so everybody’s happy!

Windows Server 2008 Support at LPDedicated

Now with our Windows dedicated servers, you can pick between Windows Server 2003 or Windows Server 2008 giving our dedicated hosting clients and customers even more choice when it comes to getting the hosting setup that is right for them.

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Provider of advanced Windows-based Microsoft Certified, shared, virtual private server (VPS) and dedicated web hosting solutions, Server Intellect, has debuted Microsoft Windows Server 2008, on its entire line of managed Windows Dedicated Servers.

Windows Server 2008 was released by Microsoft just last week. Server Intellect has become one of the first Windows Web hosts and Microsoft Gold Certified Partners to offer Windows Server 2008 (formerly codename Longhorn) on its dedicated servers. The updated operating system represents the most substantial upgrade of the Windows Server product line since Windows 2000 was released eight years ago.

Eric Pratt, CEO of Server Intellect noted:

For many months, our business customers and engineers have been awaiting the arrival of Windows Server 2008. This operating system truly opens the doors for a new era of possibilities and opportunities, and we see its implementation as a strategic milestone for our company. Through our expertise in Microsoft technologies, we made it a priority to be one of the first hosting providers to deploy the platform across dedicated servers, and our customers are resoundingly excited. System administrators and software developers can leverage the enormous new feature set of Windows Server 2008 to create and manage a new class of applications. This is an important step forward.

The new operating system includes many upgrades and additions to Web, security and virtualization technologies, including the newly implemented Hyper-V. The operating system also includes major expansions to Active Directory, Terminal Services, and introduces the long-awaited Windows PowerShell.

Windows Server 2008 is available in multiple editions to support the varying server needs of businesses of all sizes. Server Intellect will offer two main versions of Windows Server 2008, the Web Edition and Datacenter Edition. The web addition is offered on all dedicated servers at no additional charge, and the Datacenter Edition starts at $50/monthly. A full listing of differences between the two versions is available on Server Intellect’s web site.

A subsidiary of Client Intellect, Inc., Server Intellect is a provider of advanced Windows-based Shared, VPS, Application, and Dedicated Web hosting solutions. The company was founded in 2003 and is located in Orlando, Florida.

To learn more about Windows Server 2008 Managed Dedicated Servers, please visit: serverintellect.com/hosting/features/windowsserver2008/.

The Planet privately held dedicated hosting company, has included a new advanced backup server, equipped with 6TB of capacity in an enterprise-ready RAID5 configuration, as the largest and most powerful in its fleet.

The Dedicated Backup Server provides resellers and heavy-content users with exceptional performance, security and instant backup capacity for mission-critical environments. The new Dedicated Backup Server comes equipped with the award-winning CDPServer software from R1Soft, which allows end users to connect an unlimited number of server clients at no additional cost. CDP - Continuous Data Protection allows customers to recover servers to their original known state, with a continuous data snapshot and the ability to roll back to the last update to minimize loss. Bare-metal recovery bypasses the file system, which provides maximum efficiency and performance during both backup and restore. With block-level backup capabilities found only on the most powerful backup solutions, Dedicated Backup Servers offer incredible value.

Tim Donahue, President of BigStockPhoto explained:

At BigStockPhoto, our customers rely on us for access to nearly 2 million high-resolution stock photos, so the image data that we host is our lifeblood. The ability to store our enormous image library and customer information is the foundation of our business, so reliability is critical. The Planet’s new high-capacity dedicated backup provides exactly the level of performance we require at an economical rate.

Urvish Vashi, Director of Product Management at The Planet remarked:

Data loss is no laughing matter, as far too many companies have learned. Surveys have found that only 20 percent of businesses are adequately covered on backup. With content-rich sites and mission-critical environments, that represents a significant business risk. The best recommendation we can make to protect customers is to be certain they’re covered on backup.

Customers can take advantage of the simple-to-manage and incredibly powerful R1Soft backup that efficiently manages bandwidth and CPU performance that saves time and disk space:

• Operating Systems: Select from either the Linux or Windows operating systems.
• High-performance monster servers: Available on the powerful Dell 2900 monster server, the largest in any of the company’s six world-class data centers. Equipped with 8 1TB SATA drives in a RAID5 configuration, the servers provide 8GB of RAM and 2-250GB system drives.
• Bandwidth: Up to 8TB of free bandwidth on the new platform.

For a limited time, The Planet is offering promotional pricing on its new Dedicated Backup Server. Through March 31, 2008, or while supplies last, the Dell 2900 is available for $999 per month, a cost savings of $100 per month.
Ultimately, The Planet endeavors to provide the following:

• High level of network capacity and speed to deliver peak performance
• Instant scalability to handle even the largest spikes in network traffic
• Parallel, redundant, multi-tiered network routing and switching architecture to assure reliability and stability
• Multiple layer network security that prevents Delayed Denial of Service (DDOS) attacks from harming businesses
• Knowledgeable experts with a passion for excellence and a commitment to operate the best networks in the business

The Planet is a leading provider of On Demand IT Infrastructure solutions, hosting more than 22,000 small and medium size businesses and 6.7 million web sites worldwide, using the best choice of servers, software tools and support, backed by state-of-the-art facilities and network connectivity.

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