Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) - July 19, 2007 - The Planet privately held dedicated hosting company, has debuted two mid-summer promotions for new server orders. The Double Down promotion offers twice the RAM, hard-drive space or bandwidth, at no additional cost. The second offer features unmetered bandwidth, with unlimited access to a 10Mbps uplink from the firm's multiple Tier-1 providers.

The unmetered bandwidth offer is priced at $50 per month, including a $250 per month plan, for users to access a 20Mbps uplink.

Urvish Vashi, Director of Product Management at The Planet remarked, ''Increasing server performance and direct connections to the Internet via Tier-1 telecom providers are two of the most critical areas of focus for building a Web based business. Through our aggressive seasonal promotions, we're delivering the ideal price performance package for servers and unmetered bandwidth with 10Mbps to 20Mbps uplinks. With Double Down, we're providing the ability to increase server performance at no additional cost.''

The Planet's network is designed without single points of failure, which means the network operates with full redundancy for its core routers and distribution switches. The company also offers carrier diversity, with connections to seven Tier-1 telecommunications providers. As a result, customers never face obstacles or suffer from poor peering connections, sub-optimal routing paths, or congested or oversold networks that limit the power, speed and availability of their sites.

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.

The Double Down and unmetered bandwidth offers will be available until Friday, August 31, or while supplies last.

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