The company says holiday sales are expected to set new records again this year, and shopping is expected to begin in September. Retailers, says The Planet, should be equipped with additional servers and bandwidth to accommodate the holiday spike.

"Each year holiday sales hit epic records, and we expect these numbers to once again exceed the 2006 record of $26 billion," says The Planet's vice president of marketing and product management Steve Kahan. "The competition for fast and uninterrupted service has never been higher. Customers expect a better, faster and more seamless experience every year. To be certain they're prepared, we advise customers to plan now."

To meet the demand, The Planet is offering four promotional packages: Ready-To-Go Servers are available in an hour, with a choice of Pentium 4, Conroe 3060 or Dual Xeon processors, and equipped with Red Hat Linux and cPanel; the Double Down promotion lets customers buy twice the RAM, hard drive space or bandwidth at no additional cost until the end of August; Unmetered Bandwidth offers customers unlimited access to a 10Mbps uplink for $50, or a 20Mbps link for $250 per month.

The Planet says its holiday specials work in conjunction with its "Lowest Hosting Price on The Planet" promotion, through which the company guarantees it will beat any competing price by 10 percent.