April 1, 2009 — Coinciding with its launch of Parallels Plesk Panel 9.0 and Parallels Plesk Billing 6.0 on all of its dedicated server offerings, SoftLayer is including Parallels Plesk Panel 9.0 for free with all new purchases of its dedicated server plans.
March 13, 2009 — After bringing the on-demand, pay-as-you-go pricing model to the web development community, Amazon Web Services has introduced “Reserved Instances,” an additional pricing option for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud that gives users the option to make a low, one-time payment for an instance to reserve capacity and receive a significant discount on the hourly usage charge for that instance.