(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — The second week of September saw a number of web hosting discounts, including discounts on a range of MochaHost and RSHosting plans, as well as price cuts on AIT’s dedicated servers, and e-commerce with Simplewebhosting.co.uk. NetApp has also announced an interesting promotion to give a UK Company up to £1M in solutions to test its virtualisation guarantee.
MochaHost Presents a 30 Percent Fall Web Hosting Discount and an Additional 33 Free Tools
Hosting, web design, e-commerce, and promotional services provider MochaHost (www.mochahost.com) has announced a range of promotions available until the end of September, including 30 percent off its Mocha hosting plan, and six months of free hosting and two free domain names with its Business and Mocha shared hosting plans. A separate 15 percent off special is also available for the SoHo and Business plans.
Other fall specials include a free domain name with a 10 percent discount for all reseller plans, as well as special pricing on dedicated servers, and special discounts for non-profit organizations or military personnel, as well as a special SSL package. Also, all Linux plans including reseller and dedicated servers come with an extra 33 free one-click-install tools such as Magento shopping cart, MediaWiki, and phprojekt, making a total of 77 free tools.
Web Hosting Provider RSHosting Unveils Affordable Shared Hosting
Web hosting provider RSHosting (www.rshosting.com) has unveiled a new line of shared web hosting plans hosted on linux servers in US and UK data centers starting at $1.25. It has also recently introduced cheap shared web hosting plans with reseller hosting plans starting at $20.00, and VPS hosting at $49.99. It also upgraded its entire line of hosting plans, increasing storage space, bandwidth, and adding features.
AIT Offers up to 40 Percent Off Dedicated Server Solutions This Fall
For the fall season, web hosting provider Advanced Internet Technologies (www.ait.com) is reducing the price of its dedicated servers by up to 40 percent. Starting at $47.97 per month on a 12-month contract, AIT’s dedicated server plans include unlimited emails, unlimited aliases, unlimited mail Lists, a free site builder, free shopping cart, and free domain name registration (ait.com/compareplanspricing.php).
UK Company to Get £1M Opportunity to Prove NetApp Business Impact
In a promotion to prove the value of its storage efficiency and the authenticity of its Virtualisation Guarantee Programme, storage and data management solutions provider NetApp (www.netapp.com) is giving a UK business (that is not currently a customer) the chance to implement up to £1 million of NetApp’s solutions into a VMware, Citrix or Microsoft virtual environment to reduce their storage usage by 50 percent.
As part of the £1 million challenge, a NetApp-appointed analyst will independently benchmark and measure the impact of NetApp’s storage following implementation and publish the results, hopefully finding that the business will use 50 percent less storage as promised in the NetApp Virtualisation Guarantee.
Simplewebhosting.co.uk Offers Discount on Sage Pay E-commerce
Teaming up with payment service provider Sage Pay (www.sagepay.com), web hosting company simplewebhosting.co.uk (www.simplewebhosting.co.uk) is encouraging businesses to start selling online with a specially priced webshop eâcommerce solution for a limited-time price, starting at £199 (about $330). Simplewebhosting.co.uk is also offering new webshop customers three months free payment processing and a six-month subscription to the SafeBuy Accreditation scheme.
