(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider Hosting Zoom (www.hostingzoom.com) and its reseller hosting division Reseller Zoom (www.resellerzoom.com) reported last week that they are remodeling their hosting plans, introducing a new series of packages designed to “help businesses turn recession into opportunity.”
Designed with the beleaguered economy in mind, the new packages from both divisions include offerings “for customers of every budget,” and incorporate new “hybrid server” packages along with shared and dedicated plans.
“In spite of the uncertain economic conditions in the market, our customers are finding ways to generate incremental revenues through providing valuable hosting services,” says Greg Landis, president of Hosting Zoom, quoted in the company’s press release. “Our goal was to give them the tools and enable their success. Competitively priced plans running on the best machines with a healthy heaping of add-on features are a winning formula.”
According to Hosting Zoom, its new hybrid servers are “where semi-dedicated meets VPS,” a slightly thorny explanation given the debate in some cases as to whether there is such a thing as “semi-dedicated” hosting.
Semi-dedicated is a term that seems to vary in definition from company to company, with the general premise being something along the lines of shared hosting with more access to a certain guaranteed amount of computing resources – a definition that isn’t all that far from VPS hosting. Where the two meet isn’t completely clear.
(I posted a blog entry about the nature of semi-dedicated hosting back in November, and that sparked some discussion about the nature of the term and the truth behind it – though some of the poster identities unfortunately appear to have been lost in the great WHIR redesign of January 2009.)
Hosting Zoom says its hybrid plans start at $99 per month for 100GB of disk space, 1,500GB of bandwidth and 2GB of memory, and include free ClientExec software and control panel software, full management, continuous backups from R1Soft, unlimited domains and a limit of three main clients per node full root.
The new Reseller Zoom plans are divided into Budget, Advanced and Failover tiers, with the Budget tier designed for multiple-site hosting by webmasters hosting multiple low-traffic websites, and Advanced plans designed for resellers looking to provide hosting as a value-added service.
Failover hosting plans are based on the company’s clustered failover hosting system, which improves performance and uptime. The Reseller Zoom website also has links to VPS reseller and dedicated hosting reseller pages.
Hosting Zoom, along with Reseller Zoom and its VPS hosting division modVPS, were sold to hosting company Landis Holdings in October of 2008.
