Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) - November 5, 2007 - Privately held dedicated web hosting company, The Planet, has reported its financial results for the third quarter in 2007, including over 1,500 new customers leasing servers in the company's six data centers.

Kevin Klausmeyer, Chief Financial Officer at The Planet noted, ''The Planet produced another record revenue quarter, continuing its inception-to-date string of sequential record quarters. Gross margins exceeded 34 percent due to aggressive cost control. EBITDA approximated 29 percent, despite substantial continued investment in the business. Our private rack business is growing very fast, at more than 80%. This business is comprised of our highest ARPU (average revenue per unit) transactions, which range from $500 to $800. Our private rack business is driven by our stickiest customers, who enter into contracts of varying lengths of at least one year.''

Douglas J. Erwin, Chairman and CEO at The Planet added, ''We are seeing increasingly strong results across the company from our intense focus on customer experience. Customers are our life blood and are directly responsible for our success, so we consistently monitor satisfaction metrics. We continue to drive initiatives that place customers front and center in the products and services we provide, which is enabling us to grow faster than the hosting industry.''
Third Quarter Highlights Include:

Microsoft Small Business Server: The company added the new hosted Microsoft Business Server (SBS) solution, an enterprise-class IT portfolio-in-a-box designed expressly for IT integrators. The suite includes Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Outlook<, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server and Microsoft SQL Server, bundled with anti-virus and spam protection, and a comprehensive data backup solution.

Powerful New Servers: The Planet added new Dell 840 Kentsfield mid-range servers, along with Dell's high-end dual Clovertown with Xeon 5335 processors. The company also announced its new Ready-To-Go server line, making products available in one hour.

Private Rack Additions: The company bolstered its private rack offerings with the availability of Foundry's new ServerIron Global Server Load Balancer products that operate at gigabit speeds and beyond.

Dedicated Backup: Equipped with R1Soft's full-featured CDPServer continuous data protection software, the company introduced three new Dedicated Backup Server storage options: 500 GB, 1TB or 1.5TB. The feature-rich backup solution offers a perfect fit for small to large businesses with mission-critical, intense data storage needs.

New General Managers: Expanding its management team, the company announced the appointment of two new leaders for its advanced services and core hosting businesses. Jeff Nelson leads the advanced services business, while Todd Mitchell joined the company to lead the core hosting marketing component.

Network Video Tour: To provide customers with an inside look at its sophisticated network, the company introduced a video tour that demonstrates its unsurpassed network capacity and speed with instant scalability; and parallel, redundant, multi-tiered network routing and switching architecture.

Awards - The Planet won key industry placements, validating its industry leadership: the Deloitte Fast Tech 50; the Computer Reseller News Fast Growth list and the Inc. 5000 roster.
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 2.8 million web sites worldwide, using the best choice of servers, software tools and support, backed by state-of-the-art facilities and network connectivity.

For more information about The Planet, please visit: www.theplanet.com.