December 19, 2008 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- In the final days of the holiday season, many web hosts have been offering last-minute discounts in the middle of December, including savings on shared, VPS and dedicated hosting, as well as offers on SSL certificates.
Easyspace Offers 10 Percent Off Everything
UK web services giant Easyspace (www.easyspace.com) launched a holiday sale this week, offering users 10 percent off all its products, including web hosting, virtual private servers and dedicated servers, as well as domain names, email hosting and various other services offered online by Easyspace. Existing customers who are due to renew, can also claim the discount, and also customers wishing to purchase "add on" services such as additional RAM and backup services.
This offer is available until January 16, 2009 and can be accessed by entering the code 'xmas10' when prompted.
FastNext Sells Cluster Hosting for the Price of Shared
FastNext (www.fastnext.com) has introduced a Christmas offer, giving new clients the flexibility of clustered hosting for the price of shared. FastNext is offering one month free on a 6 month cluster hosting contract and 3 months free for a year's commitment. The company is also throwing in a free GeoTrust SSL certificate with 12 month plans.
FastNext has also upgraded its Linux VPS and reduced their price. Starting at $24.95 per month, the company has introduced new plans including VPS-Classic, VPS-Midi, VPS-Maxi and VPS-Mega, which provide between 15 Gb and 40 Gb of diskspace, 200 and 600 Gb of traffic, and 256 and 1024 Mb of RAM.
MochaHost.com Announces Holiday Specials and Gift Cards
MochaHost.com (www.mochahost.com) has announced that new and current customers will be treated to six free months of hosting, two free domain names, and a free site builder when they sign on for MochaHost's Business or "Mocha" plans for the holiday season. Along with offering 10 percent off any MochaHost reseller plans, other season specials include a free domain along with any one year purchase and special discounts for non-profit organizations and military personnel.
In the holiday spirit, MochaHost has also made its e-gift cards available at 10 percent off, instantly offering the gift recipient a complete hosting package they can setup in minutes - making a great last minute present.
Template Rover Club Offers Free Website Templates with Membership Fee
Having previously offered professionally designed website templates at $30 to 40, Template Rover Club (www.templaterover.com) has reduced that price is zero, offering its TemplateRover Club members access to its 5,000 web templates for the $99 per year membership fee.
VEXXHOST.COM Offers 25 percent off all Xen VPS web hosting plans
VEXXHOST Web Hosting (www.vexxhost.com) has announced a 25 percent discount for its entire Xen virtualization-based VPS plans. Staring at $24.72 per month, all VEXXHOST's virtual servers are backed up with full hardware and network redundancy, and are hosted on RAID 10-configured physical servers located in a premium data center in downtown Montreal, Canada.
MaximumASP Announces Limited Supply Year End Server Clearance Sale
Web hosting and IT services provider MaximumASP (www.maximumasp.com) has announced that with with the purchase of any dedicated server, it will offer a second at half price. With a wide variety of specially pricing servers for the year end, MaximumASP's discounted servers are reformatted and tested, and include the company's uptime guarantee, and the option of adding components, add-ons and Microsoft enterprise software.
Totally GlobalSign Launch Massive New Promotion
GlobalSign SSL certificates supplier, Totally GlobalSign (www.totallyglobalsign.com) has launched a promotion to offer Extended Validation SSL Certificates for more than 50 percent off (up to $850 less than GlobalSign's RRP). Showing the green address bar in the latest browsers and provides the greatest assurance of all SSL certificates, Totally GlobalSign's discounted GlobalSign ExtendedSSL certificates help companies prove to end users they are dealing with a legitimate organization.
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